27 November 2020
Women Education becomes an important topic to discuss because still many people do not care about it. Education is one of the most important and valuable things a woman can receive because everyone should have a right to education access, it gives alternative ways to think.Women face limitations and discriminations all throughout the world. A stigma that still exists is the narrow belief that women donot need to get higher education because they are only meant to become housewives.However, this puts women in a subservient role where they exists to serve the men they marry with no ambition of their own.
Source: UNICEF Institute for Statistic Global Databases 2019
Based on Unicef Data (2000-2018), the amount of out-of-school girls at primary school age decreased globally by 44% from 57 million to 32 million. Despite this progress, some 59 million children of primary school age were out of school in 2018 (55% of whom were girls), with Sub Saharan Africa observing thehighest overall rates. This is often associated with poverty, geographic remoteness, armed conflict, lack of school infrastructure and poor quality than at the primary level. Gender disparities put young girls and women at a disadvantage in places like girls and 62 girls respectively are enrolled in lower secondary school for every 100 boys (Further Information: Gender and Education).
What about now? The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has made education more difficult to access. We will discuss this further about the challenges and recommendation:
A. Challenge:
In some parts of the world, women hardly receive support from their family, environment, and communities.
School closures affected girl’s life changes because many dropping out of education before they complete it, especially girls live in poverty, girls with disabilities or girls living in rural, isolated location. Evidence from the past epidemic shows that adolescent girls have high risk of drop out and not coming back to school even the condition is normal (Further Information: Policy Brief The Impact of COVID-19 on Women).
Massive layoffs to parents make harder to continue schooling because they can no longer pay for it (Further information: COVID-19 and Girls Education What We Know So Far and What We Expect).
For some women across their world, their options are limited to marriage and domestic roles. Education will give them more choices to do what they want with their lives (Further informatiion: Girls’ Education).
B. Recommendations:
We need to reducing barriers to women education access to get life changing education opportunities in some ways such as:
Sending volunteer teachers to outlying places that hard to access.
Giving women leadership training also and opportunies to work.
Provide more financial support/scholarships for women to receive their education.
Continue advocating for the importance of education even in this pandemic.
When women get better education it can help their country also to take economic growth better. Women have strong impact also to a country because many developed countries give an special attention such as Norway, Germany, Switzerland gets many benefits of women’s economic empowerment. Education is the first step in increasing one's knowledge and shaping a person's way of thinking. It is part of how they can shape their worldview and perspective in life, providing an invaluable form of independence. Education provides women with the means to study what interests them, have access to jobs, generate their own income, and provide for their families as well. As noted by the CARE organization,every woman has her strength, when a woman is released from poverty she will bring other women to be with her too. When one woman can save herself, she will be able to save another woman like her.
Writer: Arta Anindita
Picture & Editor: Gabrielle P
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