FEMALE EDUCATION

FEMALE EDUCATION

"Everyone has a right to education and to be a certified individual of character and intelligence, especially girls! 

BY -Christal dabreau (Managing director of DS&CD EMPOWERMENT)

Female education is a catch-all term of a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women.

 Education is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl child. ...  

Globally, 65 million girls are not in school. There are 31 million girls of primary school age not in school. Seventeen million of these girls will probably never attend school in their lifetimes

Every human being needs oxygen to survive in the world. Education is as important as this because education gives people the knowledge and skills they require. Education is important to people of all ages and it has no limit. Children require education in order for them to learn how to speak and to write.

Evidence for investing in girls’ education

Girls’ education strengthens economies and creates jobs.

When women are educated, there are more jobs for everyone. If all girls went to school for 12 years, low and middle income countries could add $92 billion per year to their economies.

Educated girls are healthier citizens who raise healthier families.

Educated girls are less likely to marry young or contract HIV  —  and more likely to have healthy, educated children. Each additional year of school a girl completes cuts both infant mortality and child marriage rates.

Communities are more stable — and can recover faster after conflict — when girls are educated.

When a country gives all its children secondary education, they cut their risk of war in half. Education is vital for security around the world because extremism grows alongside inequality.

Girls’ education has a huge impact on all of society

Educated women are less likely to die in childbirth:

If all mothers completed primary education, maternal deaths would be reduced by two-thirds, saving

98,000 lives

In sub-Saharan Africa, if all women completed primary education, maternal deaths would be reduced

by 70%, saving almost 50,000 lives.

Educating girls can save millions of lives:

If all women had a primary education, there would be 15% fewer child deaths.

If all women had a secondary education, child deaths would be cut in half, saving 3 million lives.

Mothers’ education improves child nutrition

If all women had a primary education, 1.7 million children would be saved from stunting from

malnutrition.

If all women had a secondary education, 12 million children would be saved from stunting from

malnutrition

Girls with higher levels of education are less likely to have children at an early age

10% fewer girls would become pregnant under 17 years in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia

if they all had a primary education

Almost 60% fewer girls would become pregnant under 17 years in sub-Saharan Africa and South and

West Asia if they all had a secondary education.

Educating girls is a key factor in hastening the demographic transition to lower birth rates.

In sub-Saharan Africa, women with no education have 6.7 births, on average. The figure falls to 5.8 for

those with primary education and more than halves, to 3.9, for those with secondary education.

Girls with higher levels of education are less likely to get married at an early age

If all girls had a primary education, there would be 14% fewer child marriages

If all girls had a secondary education, there would be two-thirds fewer child marriages

Education narrows pay gaps between men and women

In Pakistan, women with a primary education earn 51% what men earn. With a secondary education,

they earn 70% what men earn

In Jordan, women with a primary education earn 53% what men earn. With a secondary education,

they earn 67% what men earn

Educated women are more likely to find work:

In Brazil, only 37% of women with less than primary education are in work. This rises to 50% if they

have a primary education, and 60% with a secondary education