Girls Education a lifeline to development
Girls Education is an essential means of
empowering them with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to
fully participate in the development process. Girls Education is one sure way of giving them
much greater power of enabling them to make genuine choices over the kinds of
lives they wish to lead. Girls Education enabling them to discover their
own potential, to develop themselves fully and increase their resistance to gender
discrimination. It’s not Luxury. But girls have a right of Education;
Because Everyone has the right to education.
Improving girls' educational
levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic
future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire
community. By which means girls education is an effective tool to reduce
poverty and unequalization in community.
Improving female education,
and thus the earning potential of women, improves the standard of living for
their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families.
So, we all should try to
protect girls’ education rights and does work in a direction which
really makes true “girls education is an effective tool”, because it
contributes in development process of family, community and country.
So, we can say girls
education a lifeline to development.
Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of
issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary
education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls
and women. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education, and
its connection to the alleviation of poverty. Also involved are the issues of
single-sex education and religious education in that the division of education
along gender lines as well as religious teachings on education have been
traditionally dominant and are still highly relevant in contemporary
discussions of educating females as a global consideration.
Improving girls' educational
levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic
future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire
community .[5] Infant mortality rate of babies whose
mothers have received primary education is half that of children whose mothers
are illiterate.[6] In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary
school. Yet, research shows that every extra year of school for girls increases
their lifetime income by 15%. Improving female education, and thus the earning
potential of women, improves the standard of living for their own children, as
women invest more of their income in their families than men do.[7] Yet, many barriers to education for girls remain. In some African
countries, such as Burkina Faso, girls are unlikely to attend school for such
basic reasons as a lack of private latrine facilities for girls.[8]
RIghts
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in
the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be
compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally
available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis
of merit.
Although education is a human right. Inequality in access to education is a
fact around the world. 61 million primary school aged teens
are currently not enrolled in school, and almost half of these adolescents will
never have the chance to get an education. Girls, in many parts of the world, are
less likely than boys to go to school. The gender divide in education is high
in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (UNICEF).
What we know is that
education is essential to beat poverty. Education gives girls skills and
information that enhances their ability to provide for their families in the
future. An educated girl has a greater chance of living a healthy life and
ensuring her children and families live a healthier life. She would also have
the possibility to contribute to a strengthened workforce in her society and
human capital in her country, leading to positive developmental outcomes for
her nation as a whole.
Advantage
There are lots of advantages of girls education . An
educated girl and woman is one of the wisest and most profitable
investments in social and economic terms. Education leads to greater self-esteem
and self-confidence, and opens up new horizons for girls, enabling them to
discover their own potential, to develop themselves fully and increase their
resistance to gender discrimination. Advantages of girls education helps
better childcare (vaccination, schooling, etc.), better nutrition,
decrease in child mortality, better communication with the children and other
family members. An educated woman is better equipped to increase family income
and resolve family problems satisfactorily. Her family’s wellbeing thus gets a
big boost.
Education heightens women’s awareness of
the important role they can play in the community and society to find solutions
to problems that impede development and social stability.
With the awareness of her role as
citizen, an educated woman can play a more dynamic role in addressing the
economic challenges faced by her country, in the areas of agricultural production,
food self-sufficiency, the fight against environmental degradation, the use and
conservation of water and energy.
A recent study shows that the
decrease in child malnutrition between 1970 and 1995 is attributable to the
tune of 44% to the improvement in female education.
