Human Rights Gender inequality: educational opportunity

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  • Human Rights Gender inequality: educational opportunity
    • improvements in female enrolment
      • especially in primary education
      • severe disadvantages and exclusion
        • mainly in poorer countries, rural areas and rural poor
        • greatest in sub Saharan Africa and south Asia
      • key to empowering women and achieving gender equality
        • women are able to move into the labour market
          • increases productivity of the work force
            • now, more than half of the work force is being utilised
          • now, more than half of the work force is being utilised
          • skilled and educated, able to earn their own money
      • where parity has increased:
        • population growth has slowed
          • family health, child nutrition have fallen, poverty has been reduced
            • fertility rates have fallen
        • infant mortality rates fallen
          • family health, child nutrition have fallen, poverty has been reduced
            • fertility rates have fallen
        • parity: the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay
    • factors influencing female educational participation
      • improvements in female enrolment
        • especially in primary education
        • severe disadvantages and exclusion
          • mainly in poorer countries, rural areas and rural poor
          • greatest in sub Saharan Africa and south Asia
        • key to empowering women and achieving gender equality
          • women are able to move into the labour market
            • increases productivity of the work force
              • skilled and educated, able to earn their own money
          • where parity has increased:
            • population growth has slowed
              • infant mortality rates fallen
                • parity: the state or condition of being equal, especially as regards status or pay
            • Cost
              • Poverty, AC/EDC/LIDC
            • household obligations (chores)
              • fall to girls due to males who emigrate
                • may send remittances back which improves standard of living
            • patriarchal systems
              • only a benefit to the family into which a  daughter marries
              • not a benefit to her own family
            • inadequate santitation
              • no private or even separate toilets
            • negative classroom environments
              • girls face:
                • violence
                • exploitation
                • corporal punishment
            • insufficient female teachers
            • girls are exploited for child labour
              • this is an example of forced labour
            • different levels of support for education in different religions
            • child marriage
            • inadequate legislation
            • lack of or minimal  government investment
            • early/teenage pregnancy
              • child marriage

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