Gender Roles

Females are discriminated against, mistreated, and are valued less since women and girls are not allowed to attend school and higher education. There are approximately 35 million girls not enrolled in elementary school. This explains why two-thirds of illiterate people over the age of 15 are females. Malala Yousefszai is an advocate for girls’ education all over the world. We learned that she was shot by the Taliban for standing up for education when we had to watch the video where she was on The Daily Show. Malala said that men don't want women to get an education, because then women would become more powerful. Having an education brings power. Her father was a great encouragement for her because he spoke out

In the United States in 2016, women were paid 80 percent of what men were paid (Kevin Miller, The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Women are still treated as second hand to men to this day, but we have come a far way since the sixteenth century European women. Women can go to school, work, and have lives in the United States. In other countries and cultures, however, women still have a long fight ahead of them. In Saudi Arabia, women were just recently granted the ability to drive (Nicole Gaouette and Elise Labott, CNN). This is a huge stepping stone for women in Saudi Arabia and many more countries. The guardianship rule in Saudi Arabia is still ongoing, stating that women cannot make any decision without a man or young boy telling her yes or no. Women have no freedom for making their own choices, but their chains will soon be loosened through newly imprinted laws. Just like in the home, European women and Native American women vary greatly in societal structure and cultures.

Women are denied many basic human rights, along with the ability to partake in many activities that us as Westerners would consider to be rights, simply because of their gender. The most infamous example is Saudi’s ban on women driving cars. This takes away a woman’s independence and therefore makes her further dependent on males. The stratification doesn’t stop there however; the enrollment in academic institutions is strictly contingent on the approval of the male guardians. This means women can be denied the basic right to an education if their male guardian so chooses, with no ability to protest. Women are then further marginalized in the work force. According to the Saudi labor code, “women shall work in all fields suitable to their nature.” Although this law is vague in terms of what these fields are, it is clear that this piece of legislation further restricts women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. Women also have severe restrictions on their legal rights. Females in Saudi Arabia must be granted permission from their male guardian in order to sue or take a case to court. This makes it virtually impossible to prevent domestic abuse, as the perpetrator is the one who must grant permission to get the legal procedures started. This puts women at a seriously compromised and defensively position creating further stratification between males and

In the past few decades there had been in increase in women working to get an education. Women are looking for resources that they can reach, investing in a good education, not just for themselves, and for their futures. Women all around the world have always been placed at the end. Education is important for financial growth, yet, we don’t see equal educational opportunities everyone. Education is important all cross the board, some more developed countries are more educated then other. The women from developing countries like Afghanistan

But despite the stereotype, Islam actually “stresses education, including religious education for both men and women" (Megahed and Lack 407). While the male population is 17 percent more literate than the female population in Egypt, the numbers are increasing slowly for women (Hathcock 1). But it seems that women cannot break the habit of feminine stereotypes, because even when they are given the opportunity to study any subject, the majority of them go for traditionally feminine majors that include education and nursing (Megahed and Lack 413). Women also account for less than half of all students enrolled in Egyptian colleges (Megahed and Lack 412). Additionally, it can be shown that it is not the religion that is at fault, but the people that practice the religion who "often oppress women and deny them the equality and human dignity granted in the Qur'an" (Eft and Russ-eft 279). The Islamic law states that women have a right to an equal education as men, to vote, and to many other rights that allowed for women in Islamic countries today (Megahed and Lack 403). These rightsmight hold true, but some limitations are shown in the set roles that are established in village life for both the husband and wife (Reimer). The man does more of the manual labor, while the woman adopts a domestic role, even in the 21st century (Reimer). Marriage is even considered the best achievement a women can procure in their life, over an education (Megahed and Lack 408). In some places in Egypt, women are encouraged to be educated and refined so when they become mothers they will be able to influence their sons in respectable way (Megahed and Lack 405-6). Their customs come across in a different way, as in America; the people think negatively about the Egyptian women’s living style compared to their own (Eft and Russ-eft 282). But even in America, there is not

A sufficient education is something that Westerner’s like myself, have taken for granted for a long time. It’s easy to, in all honesty, because we have been raised in a society in which education has been held at the utmost importance. In the United States women are held at an equal level with men, we’ve fought for this sense of equality for several years and unfortunately, not all women across the world have had that same success. Women from other countries do not have half of the rights that we do here in the United States, and this is something that we seem to never really think about. Saudi Arabia is just one of the many countries around the world in which the women do not have as many rights as men do. Being a feminist at heart with a hunger for education, it piqued my interest to research the rights of women and education in Saudi Arabia. If I’m being honest, I had expected it to be much worse than it is, yet it could be so much better at the same time. Saudi women should have every right to educate themselves in any aspect they want, and though they have fought their way to gaining some leverage, there are still necessary steps that need to be taken.

From the societies to the justice system, the world is not perfect. On the scale of perfection, the Middle East is far from. Considering the fact that it is the 21st century, a “modern” era, the world lacks basic human equality such as gender equality. Although in many countries in the world, women have achieved a great level of equality and freedom, in the Middle East in particular, women lack political and social equality, and basic human rights such as proper education and health. A form of gender inequality in the Middle East is socially. Men and women are not raised equally, women are not supported to work in the public domain but rather to become housewives. The Arab society encourages the concept of guardianship. This concept gives men

While women are a symbol of the clinging to a traditional state, through modernization and secularization, it is important to understand that “the status of women are inseparably tied to the status of the nation” (Amin, 165). Women matter to such an extent in the discussion and practice of modernization because they directly correlate to the status of nation. Amin focuses on the idea that “when the status of a nation is low, reflecting an uncivilized condition for that nation, the status of women is also low” (165). This echoes the idea that, while women have a child-rearing influence on the next generation, as well as that child’s education, it is important for there to be equality in the household between both genders. In order to maintain a middle class lifestyle and care for the remainder of the family, these individuals are realizing the economic realities. The need for two incomes, that the rest of the world functions in, is becoming even more of an oncoming reality for many Muslim families. It is not realistic to cocoon your community from the rest of the world, but rather understand how your community fits into the Westernized norms, in the sense of

They are given limited opportunities to create choices for themselves in order to change the realities of their lives, therefore strong gender disparities exist in educational attainment between rural and urban areas and among the province. In Pakistan the boys’ enrolment in school was not influenced by income while girl’s chances of attending school depended on the availability of additional financial

Education. In terms of MDGs 4 and 5, 90% boys and girls accept primary education in Fiji. The amount of enrolment in secondary and tertiary education is higher for females than males (ADB, 2014& Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2006-2009). However, evidences showed that females are more likely to interrupt study because of financial problems. Meanwhile, the quality of education differs from rural areas and urban areas, as the result of poor education infrastructures, access to education and lack of materials and teachers. In addition, sexual and reproductive education shortage related to the low use of contraceptive and high teenager pregnancy rate. (ADB, 2014)

Many societies don’t believe that women should get to go to school because girls and boys don’t deserve an equal education in their culture. When women do not receive education, they are less likely to get their kids immunized and get their own medical care. Therefore, they are stuck taking care of sick children and they can’t leave the home because they are sick. They are also less equal because they are more likely to become sick from not getting the care they need. “The majority of the children not in schools are from just three regions of the world: sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Girls’ education is particularly neglected in these regions” (367). Gender equality is also very low in these regions.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most conservative countries in the world and follows a strict patriarchal system. Indeed, women only represent 16% of the workforce and their main duties are towards their families. It is the only country in the world where it is forbidden for a woman to drive, vote or travel anywhere without authorization from a male guardian (father or husband). All of these aspects result in a mediocre gender inequality index rating (135 over 146) and global gender gap index (131st). In addition, women

Around the world, women face discrimination whether it’s because of cultural or religious attitudes. In the Islamic faith, women are encouraged to learn however, out of the 24 nations with a primary

In Saudi Arabia, there are many social problems, and they may effect on the development of the country. The one of these problems is the high rate of unemployed women. Women in Saudi Arabia do not have active role in the development, and they are unused workforce in the society. Saudi society is different from any society, and it has his view about women. From the view of Saudi society, the traditional role of women is more valued as mother or a wife, and the Saudi education prepare them to be a good mother

Women`s education is an international human right without any discrimination based on sex or gender. It is necessary for identity social development and a means for a prosperous life. Constantly, the United Nations emphasized women`s education and set goals for its success with gender equality. Empowering women`s education is an essential element in growing societies that seek democracy and economic advancement. For the last decade, Palestinian women education had been the concern for several reasons and a hot debate for many researchers. Palestinian women are known for their patience, determination and resilience in many hard life situations.