Inequality In Education
Education is one of the basic components of the society. In this sense, as a citizen, it is important to own equal chance to get the education regardless of your gender. Actually, education has more effect than we assumed, educated people will approach to the world differently. For instance, education can avoid early marriages for girls. Also, in terms of productivity, educated women are better than uneducated women and also socially and economically more independent (United Nations Children’s Fund, April, 2016, “Education is vital to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals”). It is clear that gender equality should be provided especially in respect to education. I will focus on the significance of education on women’s achievement in Turkish
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According to data of Global Gender Index, Indonesia is the 97. country (Hausmann, Tyson, Bekhouche, & Zahidi, 2013). The difference of Indonesia from Turkey is that gender gap is less and there is no such huge difference between the years. Similarly, according to UNDP data (UNDP Human Development Report 2015), both in Turkey and Indonesia, in childhood years there is no significant difference between education of girls and boys. However, because of gender bias, higher education is not provided for woman (Priyatna, 2016). Also, their role in the economy is not visible. Actually, in developing countries such as Turkey and Indonesia lack of education makes woman invisible. In this sense, we can say there is a triangular relationship between gender bias- education and achievement. Also, in Indonesia, there are some feminist movements and activists that aim to increase awareness to gender equality. For instance, Raden Ajeng Kartini is one of the first feminist activists who emphasized the woman emancipation in 19. century of Indonesia (R.A. Kartini, Indonesia’s Leading Feminist of Women’s Emancipation, n.d.). She did not become a part the traditional gender roles and actually resisted to them. So, she became a role model for Indonesian women. Indeed, for developing countries, these cooperative organizations and leaders have a huge role to make people aware gender
According to data of Global Gender Index, Indonesia is the 97. country (Hausmann, Tyson, Bekhouche, & Zahidi, 2013). The difference of Indonesia from Turkey is that gender gap is less and there is no such huge difference between the years. Similarly, according to UNDP data (UNDP Human Development Report 2015), both in Turkey and Indonesia, in childhood years there is no significant difference between education of girls and boys. However, because of gender bias, higher education is not provided for woman (Priyatna, 2016). Also, their role in the economy is not visible. Actually, in developing countries such as Turkey and Indonesia lack of education makes woman invisible. In this sense, we can say there is a triangular relationship between gender bias- education and achievement. Also, in Indonesia, there are some feminist movements and activists that aim to increase awareness to gender equality. For instance, Raden Ajeng Kartini is one of the first feminist activists who emphasized the woman emancipation in 19. century of Indonesia (R.A. Kartini, Indonesia’s Leading Feminist of Women’s Emancipation, n.d.). She did not become a part the traditional gender roles and actually resisted to them. So, she became a role model for Indonesian women. Indeed, for developing countries, these cooperative organizations and leaders have a huge role to make people aware gender