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Women's Issue: Education

moonibz
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:58:08 GMT

Globally, that a large gender gap exists in education. According to the data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), globally, among 57 million children are not in primary school, more than half are girls, and among 775 million illiterate adults, 2 in 3 are women (2011, 2012). It’s certain that the disproportionately distribution of education opportunities is a worldwide problem. As I did research on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation in Africa, in a lot of cases, girls were no longer to go to school after they finished the practices of FGM. Given the fact that girls enrollment in school has a large drip from primary to secondary school, the practices of FGM might have a correlation with girls’ missing education opportunities. Nowadays, reports suggest that most FGM practiced at the age between 0 to 15 years (UNFPA, 2015), when is also the age of girls’ education. However, after the practice of FGM, girls need to rest at home for weeks, from when a lot of them dropped the school. In cultures that practices FGM, the symbolistic and emotional meanings include the t ransition from girls to womanhood, acceptation by the community and being able to be married and have maternity. Therefore, after this practices, usually girls start to receive families’ education on how to be a proper woman, and engage more works in the families. Thus, the mindset of families and girls themselves accept that the school’s education is no longer necessary after this transition. In China, some researches show that the education of women rises due to the one child policy, as the parents have no chance to disproportionately provide education opportunities to their children. However, from my observation, the situation is getting better in cities, but in rural areas, where people live in extended families, girls still get much less education opportunities comparing with their sibling brothers. The data of girls enrolling in school can be misleading, because enrolling in school doesn’t equal to actually go to school and receive equal education at school. Nowadays, instead of staying in the rural area and farming the land, people born in rural areas tend to work as immigrant labors in cities, leaving elders and children at home. Thus, children in rural areas need to help their families with an intensive amount of works. With the prevalent viewpoint that it’s not necessary for a girl to be educated to fulfill their roles as a future wife and mother married into another family, and the tradition gender role that women should take care of the household, girls are kept out of school and participate more in domestic works comparing to boys. Thus, in rural areas, the attendance of girls in school is lower than boys. In addition, the education received by girls are different. As people believe that benefits return from educating boys is higher than that of girls, less attention is put on the girls in school, and the education they get is highly restricted due to the traditional gender stereotype. What’s more, economic situations of extended families are hard concerns, which make it difficult to support girls’ higher education beyond the 9 years (free) compulsory education. From these facts, in China, the gender gap in education is still obvious behind the statistical data, especially in rural areas where girls are in a significant subordinate position. The gender gap in education could be detected from another worldwide phenomenon, such as young marriage and “sugar daddy”. Thus, the gender gap in education is a global women’s issue. Although the UN and the World Bank address the economic and health improvements brought by the “investment in girls’ education”, it’s important to realize that the access to education is a part of the fundamental rights of girls and women. The gender gap in education is also strongly related with gender gaps in other areas, such as politics and workforce as we have read before in reading materials for this class, and lacking access to education also means lacking access to effective ways to protect their rights. Behind this fact, broader social and economic oppressions faced by women and girls are revealed. In all, the issue of gender gap in education globally is an important women’s issue that reminds unsolved and needs all of us to combat together. UNFA, 2015 http://www.unfpa.org/resources/female-genital-mutilation-fgm-frequently-asked-questions#age_performed

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