Against women in the Developing World Even in the first world‚ women face situations where they feel devalued in comparison to men. They may go to purchase a home‚ TV‚ or a car and be ignored by a sales person because there is a man present and he is the decision maker with authority and power‚ who of course knows what he is doing. However‚ these women are voters‚ drivers‚ salary earners‚ and property owners; they have value and play a role that is considered to be important to society. Women in developing
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EDUCATION OF WOMEN * More than 10‚000 girls a day will get married before they turn 15. * More than 60% of the 110 million children out of school are girls. * Two-thirds of the world’s children who receive less than four years of education are girls. Girls represent nearly 60% of the children not in school. * In the past‚ women with little education often believed that they were not capable of things like participating in politics‚ having a career or even owning property. * Women
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Dwight Yorke Andy McNeil Personal Response Assignment #2 6th September 2012 Daniel Defoe: ‘The Education of Women’ Daniel Defoe’s essay entitled “The Education of Women” was written to emphasis the value of education for women should be more than what is was. In paragraph 1 “...us a civilized and a Christian country” Defoe’s target audience was for men and for those who follow the church and God. England at this time was dominantly of Christian faith and in this essay Defoe
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concerned. But so far as education is concerned it is a backward country. In past‚ women did not receive any education at all. They were not allowed to come out of the four walls of their houses. Domestic works were their only education. During the British rule in India some noble social thinkers of the time paid their attention to the education of woman in our country. Raja Ram Mohan Ray‚ Iswara Chandra Vidyasagar was famous reformers who gave emphasis on the education of women. They put forth a very
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student‚ India [edit]Pre-Independence The history of female education in India has its roots in the British Regime. Women’s employment and education was acknowledged in 1854 by the East India Company’s Programme: Wood’s Dispatch. Slowly‚ after that‚ there was progress in female education‚ but it initially tended to be focused on the primary school level and was related to the richer sections of society. The overall literacy rate for women increased from 0.2% in 1882 to 6% in 1947.[48] In 1878‚
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Education of Women We do not think a classical education 1. The thesis! But‚ what was a "classical proper for women. It may pervert education" in 1815? Probably Latin and their minds‚ but it cannot elevate them. Greek‚ philosophy and the "classics" of It has been asked‚ Why a woman should literature. not learn the dead languages as well as the modern ones? For this plain reason‚ 2. Perversion‚ not elevation‚ is the result of that the one are still spoken‚ and may
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GRADE: XI S. NO. 1 FIRST TERM (APRIL- OCTOBER) SUBJECT/TEXT SECOND TERM (NOVEMBER- MARCH) ENGLISH PROSE PROSE – HORNBILL HORNBILL HORNBILL 1. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY 2. WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO DIE 3. DISCOVERING TUT 4.THE AILING PLANET 5. THE BROWNING VERSION POETRY – 1. A PHOTOGRAPH 2. CHILDHOOD SNAPSHOTS WRITING SKILLS SNAPSHOTS 1. THE SUMMER OF THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE 2. THE ADDRESS 3. THE TALE OF MELON CITY 4. MOTHERS DAY NOVEL -THE CANTERVILLE
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Women`s education in India has been one of the major issues of concern of the Government of India as well as the society at large. It is because of the fact that today the educated women play a very significant role in overall development and progress of the country. Women hold a prominent position in the Indian society as well as all over the world. However‚ since the prehistoric times women were denied opportunities and had to suffer for the hegemonic masculine ideology. Thus‚ this unjustifiable
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Women education in Pakistan Education plays a pivotal role in developing human capital in any society. Education has become a universal human right all around the globe. Article thirty seven of the Constitution of Pakistan stipulates that education is a fundamental right of every citizen‚[1] but still gender discrepancies exist in educational sector. According to Human Development Report (2011) of United Nations Development Program‚ ratio of female to male with at least secondary education is 0
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INTRODUCTION “ Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer--into a selflessness which links us with all humanity ” Scholars believe that in ancient India‚ the women enjoyed equal status with men in all fields of life. However‚ some others hold contrasting views. Works by ancient Indian grammarians such as Patanjali and Katyayana suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period Rigvedic verses suggest that the women married at a mature age and were probably
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