Gender Inequality In Education Research Paper

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The previous chapters demonstrate that investing in girls's education is not only a matter of respecting a fundamental human right, it is economically and socially efficient too. This proposition is founded on the tested evidence that the rate of return to women's education is at least as attractive as the rate of retun on male education.
Moreover, education gives a woman the ability to control her own life reducing the risk of exploitation and violence against her. To educate her is to give her a voice to stand up for herself, and for others. The skills that she acquires in school translate into better employment prospects and health outcome for her and her children. They learn how to communicate and engage in the world, becoming useful resources for their country.
Outcomes are best when the educational system is reformed into a gender-sensitive, equal institution. With the right policies ad interventions, gender equality in education can give fruits. Successful interventions differentiate greatly: they go from programs reducing costs of education (Gratuidad, Colombia) to enhance demand for schooling; frameworks that "bribe" parents to send girls to …show more content…

Education policies tend to address on aspects related to the education system and stop there. But the solution to gender biased education goes beyond the borders of the education sector, stretching to tthe legal and health systems, the infrastructure and the agricolture, the social impositions and religious traditions. To really address the problem, an all-round reform of the social customs is needed in countries in which female education is lagging behind and in all of the others that do not provide the same opportunities to women in the job market, either paying them lower than men or discriminating them at the

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