With a population of 122.3 million people, México has 78.3% living in urban areas around the country. Looking at a cartogram of this pattern, one could tell that around the central band of México, including México City, Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Xalapa, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelia, and Cuernavaca only covers 10% of the land but is home to more than half of all the Mexicans. The other 90% of land in México holds about 50 million people. Not only does this create a vast difference demographically, but also it separates the country and forms an extensive gap between the wealthy and poor, which can consequently lead to the inequality of female and male education success. Learning how community and family factors influence unequal educational outcomes
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Where one can see purple, dark red, or orange representing where the population density is the highest. Actually, it is a density higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, or even northeastern United States. The other 90% of land in México holds about 50 million people. Out of 122.3 million people, with more than half living in those dense areas, and the other half scattered across the nation, it creates this disconnection between the urban and rural world. In Figure 2, this difference is very obvious. Comparing the male and female rural statistics of how many years of schooling has been completed by these different age groups, one will notice that at the ages of 5 years old to 20 years old, females in rural areas surpass males in years of schooling, but thereafter males begin to dominate over females. One cause of this would be that the female role is set into motion, especially in rural areas, where family and gender roles are heavily carried on a female’s shoulders. After the age of 20, women in Mexico are expected to stay home and be the family and home caretaker. However, comparing male and female urban data columns, women have an advantage from ages 5 to 24, perhaps because, in urban locations, women have more resources and opportunities to attend higher education during their twenties. In Figure 6, one can see how vast the difference of …show more content…
The gap between income, social class, and education will only grow. There have been programs that have given México the spotlight and have been a great achievement in taking steps to close this gap, such as Oportunidades (now Prospera). Today Prospera has surpassed helping 4 million families, not only “reducing income poverty in rural areas”, but they have now made their way to poor urban areas as well (The World Bank). This program has also begun a new component that is a savings plan for participating high school students that will grow with each passing year, from ninth grade through graduation, called Jovenes con Oportunidades. Programs such as these are finally beginning to understand that helping families in the moment of their struggle is very useful, but these families have to spend those resources at that moment to survive. With Jovenes con Oportunidades, families are now able to give their children support and a real plan for their future. México is slowly attempting to solve their plethora of situations with inequality, and hopefully, slowly the gap of gender inequality of education will begin to close. In Figure 3, what is displayed is that a relationship between the highest level of education completed and either helping or not a child with homework is different for males than for females, not just in terms of magnitude but as well in terms of the rate at which both concepts relate
Where one can see purple, dark red, or orange representing where the population density is the highest. Actually, it is a density higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, or even northeastern United States. The other 90% of land in México holds about 50 million people. Out of 122.3 million people, with more than half living in those dense areas, and the other half scattered across the nation, it creates this disconnection between the urban and rural world. In Figure 2, this difference is very obvious. Comparing the male and female rural statistics of how many years of schooling has been completed by these different age groups, one will notice that at the ages of 5 years old to 20 years old, females in rural areas surpass males in years of schooling, but thereafter males begin to dominate over females. One cause of this would be that the female role is set into motion, especially in rural areas, where family and gender roles are heavily carried on a female’s shoulders. After the age of 20, women in Mexico are expected to stay home and be the family and home caretaker. However, comparing male and female urban data columns, women have an advantage from ages 5 to 24, perhaps because, in urban locations, women have more resources and opportunities to attend higher education during their twenties. In Figure 6, one can see how vast the difference of …show more content…
The gap between income, social class, and education will only grow. There have been programs that have given México the spotlight and have been a great achievement in taking steps to close this gap, such as Oportunidades (now Prospera). Today Prospera has surpassed helping 4 million families, not only “reducing income poverty in rural areas”, but they have now made their way to poor urban areas as well (The World Bank). This program has also begun a new component that is a savings plan for participating high school students that will grow with each passing year, from ninth grade through graduation, called Jovenes con Oportunidades. Programs such as these are finally beginning to understand that helping families in the moment of their struggle is very useful, but these families have to spend those resources at that moment to survive. With Jovenes con Oportunidades, families are now able to give their children support and a real plan for their future. México is slowly attempting to solve their plethora of situations with inequality, and hopefully, slowly the gap of gender inequality of education will begin to close. In Figure 3, what is displayed is that a relationship between the highest level of education completed and either helping or not a child with homework is different for males than for females, not just in terms of magnitude but as well in terms of the rate at which both concepts relate