EDUCATE A WOMAN,
CHANGE HER LIFE
Information
The Problem
Women living in the developing world are increasingly denied the right to education, a tool that could help them in furthering themselves in society. We have a responsibility to aid others that do not have the same resources in order to create a more just world.
Women living in the developing world are increasingly denied the right to education, a tool that could help them in furthering themselves in society. We have a responsibility to aid others that do not have the same resources in order to create a more just world.
Facts & Statistics
1) By educating women we create environments in which women are able "to protect themselves from trafficking, sexual exploitation, and HIV, for example"
- World Education
2) "More than a million children throughout the world are trafficked for the commercial sex industry and other forms of bonded labor."
- World Education
3) "American girls tend to be overrepresented in education, including up to the collegiate level, where the public university male-to-female gender ratio is 43.6%–56.4%." Even though we tend to have a good view of the education of women in America it's not the same case for many other countries.
- Online Schools Center
4) "An educated woman is better able to educate her own children who, in turn, will be more likely to receive school education themselves. The family will likely be healthier, with a lower prospect of infant mortality and better maternal nutrition, including while pregnant and nursing"
- The Guardian
5) "Not only the human but also the economic cost of this educational deprivation of girls and women is huge, and the cost to individual economies can be as high as $1bn a year. Plan’s Children in Focus report puts the global economic price of failing to educate girls to the same level as boys at $92bn each year. To put this in perspective, that figure falls just short of the combined annual overseas aid budgets of the world’s developed countries."
- The Guardian