Women's Role In The 19th Century

Women have had an important role in world society since the beginning of time. In ancient times, women shared the responsibility for growing society, and helped collect fruit and take care the household (“Ancient Egypt”).The role of women become more important to social development in the 19th Century. For instance, women have more opportunities to learn about skill, general knowledge, and life. In America, women have started to discuss diversity as a human right, and other controversial subjects like sexual harassment. After 1920, women got the right to vote. It is one of many reasons why America became how we know it today (“19th amendment”). Besides this, the World Bank agrees that education is a solution for human development, so that educated people can contribute their talents to improve equality in their society. In the same way, empowering education would influence women to have the capability to access society the same as men. In addition,

In 1990, “there was the international government meeting at the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand, committed themselves to the goal of universal access to basic education ... there are approximately 960 million illiterate adults in the world, of whom two-thirds are women. More than one-third of the world's adults, most of them women, have no access to printed knowledge, to new skills or to technologies that would improve the quality of their lives and help them shape and adapt to social and economic change. There are 130 million children who are not enrolled in primary school and 70 percent of them are girls” (“Issue 7: Women Empowerment7”). Similarly, Plan International Organization claims that there are 62 million girls around the world without education because of poverty, cultural standards, and young marriages (“6 things keeping girls out of