Gender Inequality In Education
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela Even when we are living in 21st century there is inequality in education on the basis of Gender. This inequality in education is affecting the nation’s education system either the girls does not have a safe space to learn or they are not getting the opportunities to get a good education. Even in this era the mindset of the people are not changing, they do not understand that doing discrimination in providing education to the boys and not to the girls will affect the entire community, country, and the world at large. Condition of Providing Education to Girls. The world is still struggling to achieve gender equality in education. According to UNESCO, an average of 130 million girls of the age 6-17 years are out of the school and 15 million of girls who are at the age to go the primary school will never enter a classroom. And this shows th at there is a huge gender gap in education around the globe. This is because the families have still in the mindset that girls are made for doing household stuff and so investing in their education is just the waste of money. It will take a very long time to change the mindset of people that education should be equal to all it should not be based on gender. Why is it important to bring equality in Education? There are lots of reasons that why there should be equality in education’ like some of them are ending poverty and boosting a nation’s economy, reduction of adolescent childbearing, child marriage, and maternal and child mortality. Providing education to Girls would also results in them earning higher incomes which leads to uplifting households, communities and ultimately nations out of poverty. The main motive is to provide the education to girls too and remove this inequality in education. But this is not so easy to do because the dropout ratio and the retention rate are very poor. And its very challenging to lift them up. Because there is the problem in the mindset of people that educating girl child is a waste of money. Families are not at all supportive. Its very important for them to understand that education is very important to be provided to their child. Providing them a home to live with few facilities will not help them, they me require the support from there parents to even get educated. The government is also taking so many initiatives to bring equality in education. Even the NGOs are taking a great initiative to remove this inequality in education. Graphhene Foundation, an Education NGO in Noida, which is passionately working to contribute. They are contributing toward the society by providing basic education to unprivileged. They are even trying to make the society aware about the importance of education. Their initiative is bringing hope in children who never thought that they will be able to get educated. Through this they will start dreaming and working on their dreams to achieve them.