The Importance Of Women In College Education

Women are obtaining more then half of the bachelor degrees earned in America but that has not limited the earning and abilities of the working class man. Phyllis Rosser’s, Too Many Women in College? (2005) is used to expose the still continuing gender issues in higher education. It exposes the issue that yes, there are more women then men in undergrad and master’s programs but men are still outnumbering women in doctoral programs as well as higher paying fields of study (engineering, computer science, business). Still regardless of education women will still face the income gap. Comparing Lee’s and Shaw’s conclusion to the study by Investing in Futures Public Higher Education in America, Women in Higher Education both sources have come to the conclusion that women make up over half of students enrolled in undergrad and their is an uneven representation of women in math and science based degree programs. Janet Lee’s and Susan M. Shaw’s, Women’s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings is an accredited and well developed source that highlights the development of women’s

At my age, most woman in my home town cannot be able to attend college. Both financial and traditional issues are the reason that prevent woman from seeking further education after high school. People there think that college is a place for men, who can be able to learn and make money to taking care the family. Therefore, parent willing to pay for their son to go to college. In the opposite, Woman’s job is cooking, cleaning and taking care children; hence, they do not need go to college; women go to college is just waste parent’s money. I am not an exceptional one, so I am just like most of my girlfriends have no chance to sit in college’s class room.

Nancy Gibbs discusses in her article titled “College Confidential” that women are now not able to get into private colleges due to their being too many women excelling in school and creating uneven gender ratios in classes. Seeing women do so well and trying to get into colleges is a bright spot, however the men being outclassed by the women is the problem with the possible new gender gap. Women should not be punished by not getting into colleges just because of the underachievement of male students trying to get into private college. Well educated women should not be punished by being declined into their school of choice due to the results of men in school.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, illuminates the essential rights that all children have. According to the Convention, each child has the privilege of education, it is the state 's obligation to guarantee that essential education is free and necessary, to allow distinctive types of secondary training, including general and professional training and to make them open to each child and to make advanced education accessible (United Nations, 1990). But as indicated by UNICEF, an expected 93 million kids on the planet don 't get the chance to go to school, the majority whom are girls. A large part of these children are poor and their families can 't stand to send them to school. They should work to help their families survive. Others, for the most part, young girls don 't go to school since they need to help at home. However, without an education, children and families are forced to lead an existence in poverty (UNICEF, 2015).

Men and women deserve to have the same chance when applying for colleges. There are many woman who have protested to have equal rights, they felt like they were not being treated fairly, which is in part true. A lot of people think that woman should stay home and clean the house, or take care of the children, while the man is out working. Yes it is the man 's job to provide for his family, but women should be able to go to work if they want to. Women should also have the same equality when applying for colleges. There is a great need for men and women in the world, for example there is a great need for teacher in certain places in the world, so many children, and adults need to be taught. There is equal opportunity for both men and women in teaching. There is also an equal opportunity for men and women in medicine, and many other careers, there is no

The origins of higher education in the United States can be traced all the way back to the colonial era, with the founding of Harvard University in 1636 (Delbanco, 2012; Thelin, 2004). However, it would take another two centuries for women to receive similar opportunities of advanced education. Excluded from attending colleges by statute (Thelin, 2004), women in

Women universities in the U.S. were built up to fill the requirement for advanced education for women in light of the fact that most early universities in the United States conceded just men. They were the standard in the beginning of women' entrance to advanced education and a large portion of them flourished until prestigious male-just foundations of advanced education started to concede female understudies. As far back as the appearances of coeducational organizations of advanced education in the U.S., a few adversaries of women' universities begun to scrutinize the need of women' schools since they trust that there is no longer the legitimization for presence of women' universities; they defamed the legitimacy of women' single-sex instruction since they consider that the issue of imbalance in the

Equal Access to Higher Education: Believe it or not, until the 1970’s, some colleges and universities refused to accept women into their institutions. Why? The answer’s simple: education officials at the time

In today’s job market one prominent correlate for attaining professional careers is attaining a higher education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics from 2012, 88% of all males between the ages of 20-64 who earn at least a bachelor’s degree, are able to obtain a job, compared to women ages 20-64, where only 81% of women are able to obtain jobs (National Center for Education Statistics, 2013). This statistic specifically shows how women as a whole are actually getting more college degrees

While this bill undoubtedly aligned with the mission and purpose of women’s colleges, there remains an unbalanced amount of representation of women in STEM programs and careers. “Globally, women remain particularly behind in participation at elite institutions and in traditional ‘male’ fields of study including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM” (Renn, 2014, p. 3). While the very existence of women’s colleges asserts their right to belong within realms of higher education, the work towards equity and inclusion must take place in all facets of life. “Even where women outnumber men in undergraduate enrollments and enjoy full access to higher education, women’s institutions act symbolically to remind society that in many other domains of public and private life, gender equality remains elusive” (Renn, 2014, p. 125).

Women’s colleges even years ago served different types of female students. For examples, some institutions were for women who came from wealthy New England families. Some colleges were more prestige’s and had a much higher admissions standard for their students to be accepted into the college. Some women colleges were opened to educate black women, and many were Catholic for the sole purpose of teaching nuns.

The proportion of children who are enrolled in primary schools has increased from 49% to 77% in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa. This increase in enrollment is due mostly to the initiative of the governments from these regions to improve universal primary education. However, much remains to be done because even though enrollment has been made a possibility in a lot of these countries, there are a lot of other variables at play that still prevent children from receiving a quality education. Things such as poverty, cultural traditions, gender violence, and the incidence of early marriage are a major reason for disadvantaged groups, particularly poor girls, not making as much progress in enrolling

Women have pushed forward in the struggle for equality. Today women are staples in the professional world. More women are attending college than men as proved in recent studies. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1979, and on graduate school campuses since 1984. More American women than men have received bachelor's degrees every year since 1982. Even here on Haverford's campus, the Admissions Office received more applications from women for early decision candidacy than men for the eighth straight year. The wage gap is slowly decreasing and the fight for proper day care services along with insurance coverage for birth control pills are passionate issues for women across America.

Approximately 75 million children around the world have no opportunity to attend primary school. Of the 75 million, most of them are girls due to tradition or parents that hold them back from attending ("Main Navigation"). Other factors that affect children from going to school is because of conflicts and wars that result in schools to be destroyed and families to flee the country. Lack of education is a growing crisis due to many factors in developing countries but it has the power pull a country out of poverty and make them economically stable and attract other countries to trade, therefore it should be seen as a priority. Developed countries are involved to help countries increase their education because every child should have the

In Adrienne Rich's essay, "Claiming an Education", the author speaks about the female experience against the male-dominated academic scene. Despite the fact that this essay was written in 1979, a number of Rich's points seem timeless. Rich encourages young women to insist on a life of meaningful work. As a seventeen-year-old student, I have often heard from my female companions that they anticipate a higher education as an opportunity to hunt down a spouse. The frequency and zeal of this conclusion, seeing education only as means of marriage, strikes me as particularly pitiful and archaic. Adrienne Rich’s thesis in “Claiming an Education” aptly expresses the array of roles women hold in societies, the benefits, and weaknesses of our education system, as well as the struggles that women are exposed to. She successfully develops her thesis statement by the effective use of a variety of methods of development and various literary devices to improve her writing quality and to help readers interpret her message. I agree with Rich’s thesis statement because education entails being responsible for oneself, not just for women, but for all students.