Presentation (Slideshow)
- 1. Why is Education Important to your future?
- 2. Education Provides knowledge Helps you: - defining your goals/ career objectives - being prepared for the world of work - creating routines and habits of work - developing your skills - developing group work
- 3. An educated person is more easily hired than a non-educated person In conclusion, not many people succeed in the world of work without a good educational foundation.
- 4. School - Gives options / tells that everyone has the same rights Girls Boys Want Equality
- 6. What is sex discrimination ? Discrimination occurs when a person, or group of people, receives less favorable treatment on the basis of their gender. Discrimination can occur against job applicants or existing workers.
- 7. There are two types of gender discrimination: Direct discrimination (ex.: refusing to consider you for a job just because you are a woman or because you are a man) Indirect discrimination (ex.: saying, without good reason, that everyone applying for a job must have been in the armed forces).
- 8. Situations when an employer is “allowed” to discriminate: some jobs in single-sex institutions, such as hospitals and prisons; some jobs in private homes, such as a live-in care; when the job has a real physical need, such as modeling women’s clothing, or for a role in a play or other performance;
- 9. Earnings Nowadays “gender gap” is usually referring to systematic differences in the outcomes that men and women achieve in the labour market.
- 10. The Most Critical Areas of Gender Inequality Economic participation and opportunity Educational attainment Political empowerment Health and survival
- 11. Developed VS Developing countries Girls are encourage Can be as good as boys Have better future prospects Girls are neglected Worth less than a boy. End up dead, working 24-7 or in an enterprising of sex trafficking
- 12. Gender Gap in Developing Countries Neglect - baby girls are breastfeed for a shorter time than boys ; - Young girls receive less food, healthcare and fewer vaccinations than boys; - women have to pick the leftovers of the meals from men and boys.
- 13. Infanticide and Sex-Selective Abortion - Sex-Selective Abortion has increased as technology makes it simpler and cheaper to determine a fetus' gender.
- 14. Labour – since the age of 9 or 10 girls are considered useful enough to work at home. They have to work from before daybreak until the light drains away to serve their family, specially the men.
- 15. Sex Trafficking – approximately 1 million children around the world are involved in the sex trade; a third of all sex workers in Southeast Asia are between the ages of 12 and 17.
- 16. Gender Gap in Developed Countries Women have been attending college in larger numbers than men since 1985, and pocketing more college degrees. shrinking of earnings gap between men and women
- 17. Conclusion Education is the most important thing if one wants to have good future prospects Girls' Education = Breaking the Pattern of Gender Discrimination