Gender Issues in Education from Global Perspective

Gender Issues in Education from Global Perspective

Introduction

Education is universally recognized as a key driver in promoting national and individual development. Educating boys and girls produces equally boost their subsequent incomes and increases job choices and opportunities for both girls and boys. In contrast, girls' education is much more beneficial as it offers additional socio-economic gains that indeed benefit overall society. Such advantages include decreased rates of fertility, delayed marriages, higher incomes of family, increased economic productivity, and enhanced survival and health rates of children and infants.

Education has emphasized on issues of parity and access, over several years, which is reducing the gap of enrollment between boys and girls; however, inadequate attention has been given to achievement, retention or the relevance and quality of education. Offering a relevant and quality education results in increasing rate of admission, as well as facilitates in ensuring that girls and boys are able to understand the advantages of education.

This report highlights the gender issues in education from the global perspective, which has been intended to take in hand the issue of inequality. In section one, major issues of gender in education are assessed, including gender inequality, gender stereotyping, gender affects academic achievement, and overall policies. Later on, the paper sheds light on government initiatives to tackle gender issues are discussed. Moreover, this report also presents some recommendations to deal and eliminate gender issues in education.

Discussion

Gender Issues in Education

Gender Inequality

Nearly all countries come across some kind of gender parities, although, the issues differ greatly among countries, as well at different level within countries. Even though, most of the countries have attained gender equality in terms of enrolment and access at primary school level, while other continued to face related challenges, such as dropping out, repetition and late entry into school.

At different development stages, almost at countries should consider and deal with gender inequalities, which defined the way girls and boys progress in the course of education. In a number of situations, the issue turns out how to boost educational achievement for boys in comparison to girls. Almost all developed nations have attained equality at primary school level; on the other hand, equalities in girls' favor at times develop at the utmost levels. However, in the developing nations, boys often have edge over girls in terms of accessibility to education; whereas, once they make it into education, girls most of times do better than boys with regards to academic performance and educational progression. Girls benefit as regards to educational achievement may also be found in circumstances where boys persist to uphold an advantage of enrollment (Adler, 2007).

Although, the pre-existed and continues issue of boy problem in a number of countries, girls right to education remain to be held back in majority of developing countries in significant respects, such as constraints with families, society, educational practices and school system, and advantages of education.

In several countries across the globe, girls have to play dual role as they take ...