Unlike America where we are considered a developed country, many parts of the world are still considered as developing countries. These countries are called developing countries because they lack political stability and proper economic development. Countries in the South East Asia and parts of Africa are all categorized as developing countries. All these countries share one major element in common—poverty. Without essential resources, many people living in these countries are living in poverty. Poverty affects the lives of the citizens in these countries, especially young women. In these developing countries, poverty prevents proper education and effective health services for young women. In many cases, young men are more likely to receive an education compared to young women, however poverty only deepens this gap. According to UNICEF’s “State of the World’s Children Report,” 65 million girls are being deprived of education. More specifically, according to UNESCO, 17 million of these girls receive no education at all. Young girls living under poverty in developing countries typically are deprived of their education because their family and the country itself lacks the financial funds to support the girls throughout the school years. Without proper education, young girls are often neglected and are set to focus on domestic endeavors. Their primary job is to work within the family. This prevents women from getting jobs outside the domestic environment. Although some girls do
This term paper talks about this ongoing worldwide problem of young girls in undeveloped countries inadequate having unequal or no access to education and how this disparity is linked to Gender Inequality. Education Gender Inequality needs to change. In this paper, I will be using the Creative Problem-Solving Process I have learned to come up with possible solutions to a significant problem in most nations around the world and one day be a goal we can attain.
Maternal mortality, prostitution, and economic empowerment become global struggles due to lack of education and financial ability of both the country itself and individuals living in these countries. Families are following a pattern by neglecting to dedicate time, attention, and money to their children’s education. These people are living in the moment and do not
Barack Obama once said “The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.” This message is not only relevant in the United States. In fact, it has even stronger meaning in Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 28 million girls are out of school (Camfed). It is important to raise awareness of the lack of education for girls in Africa because educated women are healthier, educated women can raise a country’s gross domestic product, and educated women can advocate for themselves.
One of the global issues that women in developing overseas countries face is a barrier in education. Females in India will have a different experience of education inequality than females living in Australia. The number of out of school children in India 64% are girls, which is the equivalent of two-thirds of all children whom are illiterate ageing from 15 - 24 being female. Girls in Australia receive equal education throughout the country, this is evident in my micro world of a year 12 high school student. Although I am fortunate to live in a country where my education is not limited because of my gender, it does not mean all women are given this critical right of learning.
Gender bias is a huge barrier that prevent girls from gaining knowledge at schools. That is the reason why illiteracy rate of female is increasing. In some countries, especially, in Asia, prior generations usually consider that girls don’t have to access with high education because their main responsibility is being wives. The generations argues that female’s task is housework, so they don’t need to get educational certificates in order to apply for a job. Because of the gender bias, girls have no chance to get knowledge from school and become illiterate
In the field of comparative education, analysing the ways in which teaching and learning can be gendered is an important topic of discussion. Recent studies surrounding girl’s schooling in the developing world, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, raise questions about the relevant of gender parity as a means to obtain educational equality. The number of out-of-school children consisted of disproportionately of girls in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, comparativists often use quantitative data to analyse the female-to-male ratios on enrollment, access, and educational achievement. The Millennium Development Goals (2000) also focused on increasing access to primary school (Goal 2), and eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary schooling (Goal 3). Yet, such quantitative data does not reveal whether gains in enrollment translate into gains to the social status of women’s livelihood in developing countries.
“A girl on planet earth has a one in four chance of being born into poverty.” (Martin Ravalion and Shaohua Chen) Girls who are born into poverty are less likely to go to school, but they can rise above that and go to school if they had the opportunity. They don’t have the opportunity due to many reasons whether the family can’t afford it so they send their son, or they are not allowed to be educated. The enrollment gap between boys and girls who are enrolled in school is abound. Many intrepid people including Malala Yousafzai and Suma are working to get girls an education and/or out of poverty. If girls had the chance to be educated they would make a big impact on their countries by playing a role in the economy, reduce the amount of girls
Throughout history it is seen that as our society has grown, there has been a great deal of emphasis placed on education. Once people are better educated, one tends to succeed more efficiently at our goals and gain a better understanding of the earth’s environment and ecosystems. However, depending on who a person’s background, he/she may be denied the opportunities to learn and experience the life they are given. That is the case for many bright and capable young women around the world who are declined their opportunity of education due to narrow minded thinking. The lack of education for girls is a serious problem that needs to be addressed with better solutions such as creating more awareness, fundraising, and supporting girls to fight for their education; needless to say, these solutions must be implemented to help decrease the drastic numbers of uneducated girls around the world.
Just like many children not getting enough food around the world, there are too many children around the world in need of an education. There are many success stories of which education has played a role in a child’s life, such as the girls of Room to Read’s education program for rural, underprivileged children and the results of Malala Yousafzai’s stand for education against the Taliban. Many children need the education to become more “job appropriate” (having the skills and knowledge necessary for getting a job); many are preoccupied with other things such as fear and inferior jobs. Not only that but education, especially investing in it, has a socioeconomic benefits loop. Investing in education for children in underprivileged areas is important
A discussion paper was published in September 2015 by the United States Agency for International Development. The paper begins with how multiple factors cultivate women to extreme poverty. People who live in extreme poverty lack both income and assets. Knowledge about the impact of unemployment on child rates is also an important factor because of the specific vulnerability of children, and the privileged place they hold. In 2014, approximately one fourth of young women were married by the age of eighteen. Around eight percent were married before fifteen (“Gender and Extreme Poverty”). Globally, the fraction of girls married at a young age is even higher among the poorest quantile of women. This increases girls' vulnerability to gender-based violence because poor women often live in uncertain and dangerous conditions. Gender-based violence can result in many risks. Girls' abilities are limited to shaping their future and move out of poverty. The Source provided statistics and an explanation to create a full argument. However, there is a weakness of not looking from different perspectives. The study focuses on how the economy is also being hurt due to the poverty (“Gender and Extreme
Girls’ education should be equally important as the boys’ education. But in Africa women are seen as lesser compared to men, and this is something that we are trying to fix. “In Africa, it 's said if you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a nation. Still, in Africa, two-thirds of the children who should be in school but are not are girls. Part of the problem is economic and part resulting from a society only beginning to focus on the needs of girls.” (Norris, from NPR News) There are many positive outcomes when focusing on girls’ education in Africa, these girls will one day be wives, mothers, caregivers, entrepreneurs and leaders. There are organizations like Aid for Africa who do reach out and try to make these girls lives better and safer, “Our focus on education includes providing scholarships and stipends to African girls so they can go to school, stay in school, and succeed in life.”
In 1949 Mao Zedong and his Communist Party defeated Chiang Kai-shek and his National Party for control over China. While Mao controlled China until his death in 1976, Kai-shek and his followers fled where and established a new government?
Girls can be abused in their society daily, with an education, we can cut down the amount of, sexual harassment, and bought marriages. Girls with no education are three times as likely to marry by 18 as those with a secondary or higher education. Over 60% of child brides in developing countries have had no formal education. The time between the primary
Poverty is something that many have suffered or still suffer from today. Poverty has changed a lot of lives for many years now. Many countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Zimbabwe, and Niger are some of the poorest countries. This affects their education, society, environment, health, children, and even the crime rates. Poverty has become one of the greatest challenges in today’s society and is a major issue that is slowly trying to be solved over time.
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