GENDER INEQUALITY : EDUCATION

In today’s 21st century, there are many different opinions about gender inequality in

education, especially for girls. In old days education was restricted for girls and even

nowadays girls are still restricted to continue their higher education. Malala Yousafzai

became an international symbol of the fight for girls’ education after she was shot in

2012. Is higher education really important for girls?

First and foremost, the benefit of girls' higher education is the existing leadership

among women. Many women are innately driven to bring people together to achieve

something bigger than themselves. They often motivate and inspire others to think in

new ways and overcome obstacles. An example is Kamala Harris who is well-known

as Vice President of the United States. This example proves that women can play

roles as leaders in political aspects also and create world-level leaders.

Moreover, we can reduce poverty worldwide when a women go to work after she

finishes her higher education. This is because when everyone goes to work whether

doesn’t matter men or women, the government can decrease unemployment in the

community and also can achieve full employment consequently its leads to

economical growth. Lastly, as a positive impact, it can create economical balance

and automatically decrease poverty in many countries. According to International

Monetary Fund (2018), women’s economic empowerment magnifies productivity and

arises economic diversification and income equality in addition to other positive

development outcomes.

In addition, those who disagree with these ideas may say that women cannot play

traditional roles especially mentioned that do house chores and take care of their

families. Mostly in India girls are meant to play traditional roles and be given the

responsibility for taking care of their families and some of the girls discontinued their

higher education to do stuff like this. Points out they also discriminated to continue

their higher education because she is a girl. Society’s negative thoughts claim that if

women are educated more than men, they will be arrogant and lose track of taking

care of the family.

Last but not least a quotation sounds like “She’d become a governess. It was one of

the few jobs a known lady could do. “ I strictly debate that house courses are not only

women work and moreover women can do their work perfectly even it is a leadership

or households. In my perspective, women also need to continue their higher study to

achieve more in their life and become successful as men. As a girl, we also need to

voice out against women's discrimination to pursue higher education. When do you

all voice out this criticism of women?