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