GIRL'S EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT
Girl’s education – what’s dragging us down
Girls and women face discrimination when it comes to getting an education, staying in school, and progressing through it. The accordions below describe the most common obstacles that women and girls face around the world. Each of these impediments is based on harmful gender stereotypes about women's and men's roles in society.
Despite the fact that sex is an explicitly prohibited ground of discrimination under international human rights law, it is critical to recognise the diversity of women and girls. Women and girls experience gender inequality and discrimination in, on, and through education in various forms and at various levels, depending on their personal, local, and national contexts. However, every woman and girl who has attended school has almost certainly experienced some form of educational discrimination at some point in her life.
Women and girls face discrimination in different ways, which is known as intersectional discrimination. The interaction of gender with other factors such as poverty, living in rural areas, and/or characteristics such as physical or mental impairment, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity frequently exacerbates discrimination against women and girls in their right to education.
According to the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report's 2016 Gender Review (p. 19), upper secondary completion rates for rich urban girls and boys in India averaged 70% in 2011. The average for poor rural males was 26%, but it was much lower for poor rural females, implying that it is the intersection of being female, identifying as a woman or girl, coming from a low-income family, and living in a rural area that affects their enjoyment of their right to education, not their gender, wealth status, or where they live.
• Discrimination against women and girls can occur in a variety of settings and at any stage of their lives. Eliminating discrimination in education is a good start, but discrimination against women and girls often continues after they leave school. To ensure that women and girls enjoy and benefit from their education, discrimination in all forms, whether public or private, must be addressed in a comprehensive and holistic manner (cross-sectorally and through various measures that take into account how discrimination and inequality aggregate throughout a woman's life) and at all levels. Among the most common difficulties are:
• • The wage disparity between men and women–women earn less on average than men (59 percent according to the World Economic Forum)
• • Unequal participation and representation in politics (according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union only 23 percent of parliamentarians and 5.7 percent of world leaders are women)
• • Underrepresentation in certain fields, such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), as well as sports, particularly in leadership roles.
• • Maternity benefits, parental leave, and flexible working arrangements are all lacking.
• A lack of healthcare and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Being exposed to violence against women based on their gender, including harmful practices.
• Care work, both paid and unpaid, which continues to be borne disproportionately by women and girls (Action Aid report that a woman will do an average of four years extra work compared to her male peers over her lifetime).
These problems are being faced by women all over the world and it is dragging down the women literacy rate. And we need to face the reality and accept that education is very important for upliftment of society. The major problem we face is that large proportion of society is still not accepting that all the genders are equal. This will eventually change but it will take more time than a lifetime of a human to change this ideology.
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