Female education

In Thoughts Upon Female Education, Benjamin Rush explained his thoughts surrounding the schooling of women. Rush argued and provided many reasons why educating women was beneficial and not harmful. Throughout the reading, Rush listed reasons and activities that required women to be educated, for the purpose of advancing the nation. Rush believed that women needed schooling for multiple reasons, such as “A principle share of the instruction of children naturally devolves upon the women. It becomes us therefore to prepare them by a suitable education” (Rush, 1787, 1). Rush argued that women are important, in regards to education, because the future generations of America are raised under the mother. Mothers have the duty of influencing and raising…

An African proverb states, “If you educate a man, you educate the individual, but if you educate a girl, you educate an entire nation.” Many people believe educating females is wasteful as they’re only beneficial for housework, marriage, and childbirth. However female education improves economic status, which results in the decrease of poverty levels, early marriages, and adversity. Due to financial situations, an obstacle for women trying to get an education is early marriage. Families who…

The purpose of my research paper is to examine the evolution of female education in America during the 19th century. In my understanding that this is a broad topic, I want to focus on the basic educational opportunities awarded to daughters of wealthy and middle class white families. My paper will take a look at the arguments both for and against furthering female education, with a special focus on how education was marketed to appeal to a conservative idea of Republican motherhood and the…

Hilary Clinton once said, " I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. " I agree with this statement, and today I would like to talk about why female education matters. I will base my examples on the situation in South Asia. According to UNICEF this region is the most gender-unequal in the world. There is a clear preference for boys' education, it is mostly because people think that investing in girls' education is just a waste of money, since…

ensure societal health and wellbeing. Female education creates powerful poverty-reducing synergies and yields enormous intergenerational gains (Mercy Tembon and Lucia Fort, 2008). Literacy of women is an important key to improving health, nutrition and education in the family and to empowering women to participate in decision making in society (Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 1995). Countries with higher levels of female secondary-school enrollment have lower infant mortality rates,…

As males and females begin learning from others, our education enforces the gender norms that are expected from each gender. Our education shows us that these gender norms are how we should act and if we deviate from the norm we are different and strange. Throughout the education system, females have had to deal with the gender roles that are set by our society. The media portrays certain gender identities that females should follow to be considered a female and how they are expected to act in…

all of their students. I decided to see how my own education is gendered and I chose two classes to observe how gender can be used in my own education. The two classes that I chose were Public Relations and Conflict Management in communication. One Professor is female and the other is male so it would be a good idea to get both perspectives on how they each teach. The makeup of the classes was both fairly similar. There were class lectures that you have to attend and also readings you must read…

Despite recent efforts for equality, sexism towards women is still shown in today’s society. Women are constantly treated unfairly when it comes to education, attire, and body image. Ironically, high schools, an environment which supposedly supports equality for all students, reinforce this sexism with the harsh dress codes forced upon female students. Since the outdated dress codes purposely sexualize females in order to shame them for their “troublesome” and “distracting” bodies, women are…

are 23,983,000 African-American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic female workers employed in the work force. Out of these minority groups: African-American, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic, the total earnings gap is significantly lower than the White female, which is significantly lower on average than that of the White male. However, Asian American women are the only female minority group that makes more than White women, and in some cases, makes more than White men. Out of all the…

Teen female education is a well known problem society struggles to overcome. Living in poverty, early pregnancies, marriages, and school based violence or discrimination affects many teen girls in ways that don't give them an option on how to pursue their upcoming life. The inequalities that teen females face during education are known around the world and have strong impacts on teenagers in modern America. To bring awareness to this issue, authors influence readers, by writing about it, and…