Introduction:
This study will define the devolving gender inequality for women in Canadian education. The overarching focus on a longitudinal historical progression of women’s rights in the education will be defined from the mid-20th century to the 2000s. A majority of the findings suggest that women have had greater access to secondary and post-secondary education as a part of an increase of participation from the 1990s to the 2000s. the reason why this occurs is based on the steady inclusion of women into political and academic positions that provide them with greater access to policy making and support to help women graduate from secondary school …show more content…
In terms of world rankings, Canada is ranked as 1st (in a tie with 24 other nations) in terms of gender equality in education. Therefore, the past twenty years have seen a domestic increase of women participation in academics in comparison to men. Historically, the increase in women’s educational opportunities is part of the increased policy initiatives and women right’s movement that have forced a traditionally patriarchal Canadian government to accede more access to education for women. In the 2000s and 2010s, the findings for post-secondary education suggest that women are participating higher education is slowly increasing on a pace, which showed vast improvements in the …show more content…
Currently, these finings are supported by data collected on the inclusion of women in undergraduate programs at Canadian universities: “Women now make up more than half of all students enrolled in undergraduate programs in Canadian universities (Hobbs and Rice 73). These findings suggest that vast improvements to women’s gender issues in education are improving. Turcoffe’s (20150 findings suggest that a continual historical improvement for women has been increasing over the past twenty years in terms of post-secondary education for women in Canada. In recent times, the issue of gender inequality is primarily based on the inability of women to gain access to equal employment opportunities in male-dominated fields. Critically, the one issue that defines gender inequality in Canadian education is founded on the lower wages/salaries that women earn in comparison to men with the same post-secondary education levels of education. In this manner, women with post-secondary educations are more likely to learn less in the workforce in comparison to men as a historical precedent that is part of a current issue related gender