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Why is Education Important
to your future?
Education
• Provides knowledge
• Helps you:
- defining your goals/ career objectives
- being prepared for the world of work
- creating routines and habits of work
- developing your skills
- developing group work
• An educated person is more easily hired than a non-educated person
• In conclusion, not many people succeed in the world of work without a good educational foundation.
School
- Gives options / tells that everyone has the same rights
Girls Boys
Want Equality
Discrimination
Gender Gap
What is sex discrimination?
• Discrimination occurs when a person, or group of people, receives less favorable treatment on the basis of their gender.
• Discrimination can occur against job applicants or existing workers.
There are two types of gender discrimination:
• Direct discrimination
(ex.: refusing to consider you for a job just because you are a woman or because you are a man)
• Indirect discrimination
(ex.: saying, without good reason, that everyone applying for a job must have been in the armed forces).
Situations when an employer is “allowed” to discriminate:
• some jobs in single-sex institutions, such as hospitals and prisons;
• some jobs in private homes, such as a live-in care;
• when the job has a real physical need, such as modeling women’s clothing, or for a role in a play or other performance;
Earnings
• Nowadays “gender gap” is usually referring to systematic differences in the outcomes that men and women achieve in the labour market.
The Most Critical Areas of Gender Inequality
• Economic participation and opportunity
• Educational attainment
• Political empowerment
• Health and survival
Developed VS Developing countries
• Girls are encourage
• Can be as good as boys
• Have better future prospects
• Girls are neglected
• Worth less than a boy.
• End up dead, working 24-7 or in an enterprising of sex trafficking
Gender Gap in Developing Countries
• Neglect - baby girls are breastfeed
for a shorter time than boys ;
- Young girls receive less food, healthcare and fewer vaccinations than boys;
- women have to pick the leftovers of the meals from men and boys.
• Infanticide and Sex-Selective Abortion
- Sex-Selective Abortion has increased as technology makes it simpler and cheaper to determine a fetus' gender.
• Labour – since the age of 9 or 10 girls are considered useful enough to work at home. They have to work from before daybreak until the light drains away to serve their family, specially the men.
• Sex Trafficking – approximately 1 million children around the world are involved in the sex trade; a third of all sex workers in Southeast Asia are between the ages of 12 and 17.
Gender Gap in Developed Countries
• Women have been attending college in larger numbers than men since 1985, and pocketing more college degrees.
• shrinking of earnings gap between men and women
Conclusion
• Education is the most important thing if one wants to have good future prospects
• Girls' Education = Breaking the Pattern of Gender Discrimination