Girls' Education - Breaking the pattern of Gender discrimination

Education is the tool that can help break the pattern of gender discrimination between girls & boys and bring lasting change in developing countries. Educated youths are essential to ending any types bias, reducing the poverty that makes discrimination even worse in the developing world. The higher education open up opportunities for youth to get better-paying jobs.

 

In term of girls beside boys, the longer a girl is able to stay in school, the greater her chances to pursue worthwhile employment, higher education, and a life without the hazards of extreme poverty. Women who have had some schooling are more likely to get married later, survive childbirth, have fewer and healthier children, and make sure their own children complete school. They also understand hygiene and nutrition better and are more likely to prevent disease by visiting health care facilities. Girls’ education also means comprehensive change for a society. Later as women, they get the opportunity to obtain higher-level jobs, they gain status in their communities. Status translates into the power to influence their families and societies. Even bigger changes become possible as girls’ education becomes the cultural norm. Women can’t defend themselves against physical and sexual abuse until they have the authority to speak against it without fear. Knowledge gives that authority. Women who have been educated are half as likely to undergo harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and four times as likely to protect their daughters from it. The Global Campaign for Education also states that a primary education defends women against HIV/AIDS infection; unreasonably high for women in developing countries by giving “the most marginalized groups in society, especially young women. The status and confidence needed to act on information and refuse unsafe sex.”