Women Education And Human Diversity

From a young age girls were being taught their position in life consisted of taking care of their husband and the children they will provide him. Duties which demanded they remain in their home to complete. Typically the role of the female included being educated by their mother’s on how to sew, quilt,

When you educate a young girl, she has fewer children, she takes better care of her children, she marries at an older age, and she also contributes to her country's economy. Therefore, why is the education of women so greatly underestimated in many parts of the world? This is a question that has caused many individuals to take action against the act of prohibiting a woman the right of receiving an education. To begin with, education enables parents, and the rest of society, to see the value of a girl. As stated in the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, "Educate a girl, and she can change the world around her." Education acts as a safe haven for many young women and as an opportunity of having an advancement

In her next chapter, Kerber examines the newfound need for the educating of women. Women were not allowed freedom or a political opinion, but they could not be completely pushed aside. For years women had been taught that education made them undesirable to men and educated women were scorned. Kerber argues that a new need for

Young women only got basic education that they can use in their daily lives. Girls after certain age were not allowed to study or to finish their education. Education was not allowed in 19th century because men did not wanted women to get more educated than them. The only two topics that women were allowed to study was nursing and teaching. Women were allowed to do nursing for the wounded military men who were injured in the battle.women though that they could get their freedom by getting their education. Many women thanked the school education because of the education they were able to get their freedom and got success in their

All of those disadvantages for women in modern society are affecting young girls, and it is hard to raise daughters in today’s culture. We as a country should not just let this inequality continue. Men and women should be treated equally and it is important for parents to raise their kids to make the future less

Throughout history, and specifically in Medieval Europe, literacy was defined as the ability to read Latin. Hurdling into the early 1900’s, Literacy evolved into an idea that included any individual who was able to read or write in English; however, during this time, it was the male population who typically possessed the title of ‘literate.’ During the women’s rights movement, the female population began to take matters of education into their own hands, shaping and making credible the articles of their arguments. By becoming independently informed, women, who were once denied their rights, began to severe the umbilical cord of dependence on the male, majority race which escorted them directly into the mouth of a cornucopia of new information, rights, and equality. The minority races immediately followed in the women’s footsteps and began to savor their newly gained freedom and ability to gain reliable and self-earned knowledge. By becoming more literate, the once insufficient were now

Higher education was the necessary foundation women needed in order to be recognized as valuable members of society. However, females often received inadequate schooling. A traditional education was aimed

Consequently, this mindset, which is heavily based on tradition, prevented little girls from exploring their talents and capabilities because their fathers, brothers and sometimes even mothers decide 12 years is old enough to be women, force them to quit school and possibly even marry them off. Additionally, this form of discrimination, which is not practiced only by men but women as well, denied women certain academic opportunities. Therefore, a large number of women in those communities are hurdled from reaching their full potential and partaking in the improvement and development of our society and country.

Such rhetorical argument or style rather was intelligently made by another woman way before advocators for women’s education came about in the late 19th century. In fact the argument was made in the first century in China under great Han Empire. The argument was made by Pan Chao, women rhetoricians’ role model. Pan Chao lived during the first and second centuries C.E. she was a royal historiographer and librarian and teacher of the empress and other court ladies. For a woman she held a high position in the empire. She was from a rich family and she was very well educated, which is why she was able to take over her brother’s job as a historiographer and a librarian when her brother died. In her Lessons for Women, she talks about education of women and it is famous for being one of the earliest rhetorical pieces written by a woman. In her piece, she talks about all the virtues of women and what women ought to possess to better serve her husband, children, mother and father in laws and the community. In Humility section she states, “Let a woman modestly yield to others; let her respect others; let her put others first, herself last. (Pan Chao, Lessons for Women)” In Husband and Wife section she states, “They only know that wives must be controlled, and that the husband’s rules of conduct manifesting his authority must be established. They therefore teach their boys to read books and [study] histories. But they do not in

Throughout the fourteenth and into the fifteenth century there were a number of tragic events that directly caused a revitalization of society. This revitalization was needed to restore hope to the people that were living each day for survival. Some of these events were the destabilization of the Catholic Church with the relocation of the papacy from Rome to Avignon. This would soon be followed by the Black Death and its mammoth death toll that lead to the reduction of work forces and uprisings of peasants’. At the same time England and France were fighting a series of wars that were later be deem The Hundred Years’ War and this battle would add to a western mindset that was being cultivated to expect death, destruction, violence, sickness and poverty. In the midst of this depressing and violent society, Italy and more specifically Florence, saw a need for change and to work towards the elevation of society, the creation of a new society, and a new mindset to bring about a more civil and cultured society. This lead to a new philosophy called Humanism and this Humanistic evolution of the educational system involved a total reconstruction of the university curriculum, as well as the resetting ideals of gender roles. In the beginning of this new society there was a great admiration for classic Roman culture and this was the model being used with a great focus on the arts, philosophy, religion, and honor. The

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.

In Things fall apart, women are featured as the main teachers of children. They tell them stories, teach them how to behave with other people and especially the girls are taught a higher level of manners rather than the boys, " children sat around their mother's cooking fire telling stories," (Achebe 25). The children are taught good morals and traditional values by their parents and in this case, their mothers, who teach them social values and good interpersonal skills. Women have been regarded as inferior objects in societies but this does not turn them down from performing their societal roles especially that of being the educator of the children at home.

Throughout the history of mankind, the rank of women has been extremely pivotal in the development of the humans. At present, the progress of the nation is determined by the high positions of the women in the society in terms of the employment and the work. It is said that without the contribution of the women in the political, business, social, economic and national activities, the growth of the country will stagnate. Although in the past, the women were more accustomed to working in homes and taking care of children, etc. but now they are stepping into the outside world due to advances in education for women and increasing awareness.

Education is considered as the critical software for development as it shapes the destiny for every society. Currently the initiative is driven by the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Education for All. The MDG’s with direct reference to women education are Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education and Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women. This means that everybody in the society should be given a chance to attend school, women included (Anne Syomwene , 2015)

It is general belief in our society that role of women is restricted in four walls of home or for mainly household activities. Economy of any country can’t boom without contributing women. The growing industrialization, urbanization and social legislation and with the spread of education and awareness women have shifted from kitchen to higher level of professional activities. Today’s women are taking more and more professional and technical degrees to cope up with market need.The position of women and their position is any society is an index of its civilization. Women are to be considered as equal partner in the process of development.