How Does Gender Inequality in Education Affects Employment
HE210 – How does Gender Inequality in Education affect Employment?
According to Mao Tse Tung, ‘women hold up half the sky’. However, this phrase holds little truth in today’s world. Over the years, many women have made great strides in many areas but gender inequality still persists in many parts of the world, especially the rural areas, and to the disadvantage of women in particular. This has deeply affected the well-being, healthcare, education of women.
Education in today’s context is recognised across borders to benefit individuals and promote national development (USAID, 2008), as it equips individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to build up their countries’ economies. Thus, an economy with gender inequality in education is likely to be incapable of maximising its overall population to its benefits. To have gender inequality in education, it will not only imply a disparity in participation rates of individuals in that aspect due to gender, but also its adverse effects on the development of the economy such as a smaller working sector and creation of market failures.
We chose this topic because we recognised that there are several negative externalities associated to the trend and particularly, we hope to further analyse the situation on hand with regards to labor force and human capital and in turn explore the plausible solutions to break the vicious cycle that women are still facing now.
In this research paper, we will mainly be focusing on the causes for the above-mentioned trend, the provision vs quality of education, adverse impacts of the observed trend on employment which affects growth, and last but not least, possible solutions to it.
There are several reasons for the presence of gender inequality in education in most countries.
The foremost factor limiting female education is poverty (Geeta Sharma). The extent of poverty in a large family plays a key role when it comes to deciding whether or not to enrol a child for
According to Mao Tse Tung, ‘women hold up half the sky’. However, this phrase holds little truth in today’s world. Over the years, many women have made great strides in many areas but gender inequality still persists in many parts of the world, especially the rural areas, and to the disadvantage of women in particular. This has deeply affected the well-being, healthcare, education of women.
Education in today’s context is recognised across borders to benefit individuals and promote national development (USAID, 2008), as it equips individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to build up their countries’ economies. Thus, an economy with gender inequality in education is likely to be incapable of maximising its overall population to its benefits. To have gender inequality in education, it will not only imply a disparity in participation rates of individuals in that aspect due to gender, but also its adverse effects on the development of the economy such as a smaller working sector and creation of market failures.
We chose this topic because we recognised that there are several negative externalities associated to the trend and particularly, we hope to further analyse the situation on hand with regards to labor force and human capital and in turn explore the plausible solutions to break the vicious cycle that women are still facing now.
In this research paper, we will mainly be focusing on the causes for the above-mentioned trend, the provision vs quality of education, adverse impacts of the observed trend on employment which affects growth, and last but not least, possible solutions to it.
There are several reasons for the presence of gender inequality in education in most countries.
The foremost factor limiting female education is poverty (Geeta Sharma). The extent of poverty in a large family plays a key role when it comes to deciding whether or not to enrol a child for
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