GENDER INEQUALITY : EDUCATION

    Throughout, the 20th century, our view of life on gender equality has drastically

changed.Yes,even though the world towards technologically modernization, there are

still presence gender inequality in our society. According to Dr. Radhika Kapur (2019),

gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on

their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender roles. In my

point of view, there are a lot of gender inequality in many aspects as en example in

education. Gender inequality in education causing by some factors such as

management of households, restriction of parents and lack of confidence.

    Past few decades, girls are mostly meant to play traditional roles such as manage

households and given responsibility to taking care of their siblings even though they

are still young to do stuff like this.They are also ordered to take care of their sibling

after their parents go to work while do all the house chores lonely without getting

helped by boys in the house. For instance they need to house chores such as

cleaning, cooking, washing clothes and many more. This type scenario is mostly

happened in some country like India. As a negative impact, the girls not have time to

study and also cant focus on studies.

    Furthermore, restriction of parents is one of the example how gender inequality

happened in education. Most of the parents restrict their daughter go to school but

allowed their son to go wherever they want in old days. Even when the world

significantly changed on culture still some parents not allowed their daughter to

continue their higher studies for the reason that she is a girl and need to marriage

earlier. As well as they instructed to obey their parents words and can’t do anything

independently in old days. This is because their parents low education and

influenced by community view point.

    In addition, one of the factor caused gender inequality on girls is lack of confidence

to go to school. This is because lack of encouragement by their parents and also

community. As we all know that in India there are lots of discrimination on girls

education. A girl is also discriminated by society even though she break all the

obstacles to continue her studies because of she is a girl. Consequently, the girl lost

her interest in studies. As a result of not study well they also being bullied by other

students in the class. They are also continuously criticized by community.

    In conclusion, gender inequality is not only existence in education, but also in other

aspects like sports. The factors that stated above can be negative impact to women

to achieve more in their life. Last but not least responsible parties should play role to

prevent raising of gender inequality in education on upcoming generation.