...challenges women to take control of their learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom, so that they can gain the knowledge that they need to become empowering and more accepted in the society. Rich attempts to persuade the readers that women were being denied part of their education in the classroom. She felt that it was necessary for women to educate one's self through life experiences. Rich wants education in universities to not be biased and allow women the same opportunities and privileges as men have to be able to get an education. Rich believes that it if women are limited in their education and denied the understanding of their female roots and heritage that it will be difficult for them to gain awareness of themselves and the world around them. Literacy is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment, and a means for social and human development. Educational opportunities depend on literacy. According to the “United Nations, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, 1977 Compendium of Social Statistics (New York: United Nations, 1980) it reports that “in an age of increasing illiteracy, 60 percent of the world's illiterates are women. Between 1960 and 1970, the number of illiterate men in the world rose by 8 million, while the number of illiterate women rose by 40 million.”(76) Rich wanted to convey the message how statistics and numbers reflect her message that something needs to done for more women to become...
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...The Progress of Women in the Barbadian Educational System: Then till Now The development of the educational system in Barbados has followed closely the development of the English system, at least until recent years, and the situation of women within that system, both as pupils and as teachers, has been no exception. When Barbadian schools first began to thrive in the nineteenth century, most of the provision was restricted to primary education. There were more or less equal numbers of boys and girls attending these schools, which can be attributed particularly to a new-found parental appreciation of the importance of education to children of both sexes. However, the pupils were segregated into separate classes, and the beginnings of a pattern which later expanded more strongly can be seen. It resulted in an ideology that less was expected of girls academically (there is evidence that girls only learnt reading whilst boys did more subjects) and different practical subjects were taught to the two sexes (e.g. needlework for girls and carpentry for boys). Secondary education at this time was provided only for a limited number of children from the middle classes, mostly boys. It was not until after the Mitchinson Report of 1875 were the first two girls' secondary schools founded, namely a first grade school, Queen's College in 1881, and a second grade school, Alexandra, in 1896. The reasons for the Report's recommendation for the creation of secondary schools for girls were typical...
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...Women The radical move of switching to the 4+4+4 education system has increased the tendency of girls, who are fifth and sixth graders, to abandon their education. The allowance of homeschooling for the high school students resulted in over 100,000 female students to abandon their education within the first year of its introduction. Vocational and technical schools which train personnel for the labor market are really inefficient in routing female students to new professions. The labor force participation rate of Turkish women is way behind the 1990 rates and is very low by international standards. In 2012, the labor force participation rate of Turkish women was 29%, whereas this rate was 24% in the rural areas. The labor force participation rate of women in EU and OECD countries amount to 60%. Turkey ranks last with its women labor participation rate in OECD countries and there is also a huge difference between the labor participation rate of Mexico which is last but one in the ranking list with 47.1%. Many women are directed for not working or working only in certain job fields due to reasons like “this work environment is not suitable for women” or “that work is against our customs and traditions”. Rights like leaving the job with severance pay for newly-wed women or extended maternity leave, which came into force within the AKP government’s period, are not encouraging for women employment. According to a World Bank report, women in Turkey are paid 20% less in average...
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...Education is Needed for Women Education is one of the basic needs of human life. As a human being education is needed for women as well as men. Education is the only way for women to uphold their position in this male dominated society. Women’s education is needed in every society because without the contribution of women it is not possible for men and the whole society to cope up with dynamic world. Women have also the potential to do anything perfectly and it is seen that in some cases than women are more effective than men. At past, women were exploited by men. They couldn’t go outside also and kept inside the four walls. Because they were deprived from the light of education. Education was the only thing that made them aware of their rights. After getting proper education wpm en protest against all of exploitation, came outside and started contributing for the family, society. So it is seen that the freedom of women was only possible for education. Women should be educated because according to Nepolion, “give me an educated mother, I will give u an educated nation. That means, women do not need education only for their job, it also enriches individuality. An educated women bring up their child more effectively than an uneducated women. Because they have a knowledge of health, sanitation, birth control, education and many other things. An educated women can create awareness among the society about any danger and always chose the best things for her family...
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...Topic- Distance Education and Women Empowerment: The Women Who Dared at Distance Learning Institute Okunuga, A. O., & Akintayo, M. O. (2011). Distance Education and Women Empowerment: The Women Who Dared At Distance Learning Institute. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 8(7), 1-11. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Women in Nigeria have always been placed on the backburner when it comes to education. Social and Cultural beliefs in Nigeria have been one of the main downfalls in education. According to Nigerian beliefs and culture, women belong in the kitchen. Nigerian women are also considered to have a lower intelligence compared to their male counterparts. Women in Nigeria are not allowed to bring honor to their family or support their family once they are married. One of the last conflicts for women in Nigeria is their education tends to be downplayed due to the fact that so many of them get pregnant at a young age. These prejudices result in women being denied access to education. This research proves that distance learning in Nigeria has enabled women to receive an education. Although that education is mainly basic, it is still some type of education. Allowing women to receive an education has also benefited the country. Women are able to learn new trades and skills, which enables them to be better providers for their children and families. Women are beginning to realize their value and worth. This research began with a questionnaire sent...
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...Women and Higher Education in Iran Iranian women hold a high regard for education and they believe that obtaining a higher education will lead to financial independence and a higher social status. While the pursuit of a degree may appear to be the driving force behind their choice to attend college, there are other contributing factors. College provides an opportunity for young women to experience a limited form of independence and to intermingle with members of the opposite sex. College is the first public place where women come into contact with members of the opposite sex. “College in one place in Iran’s Islamic society that enables young men and women to interact, albeit surreptitiously.” (Shavarini 341) Relationships between men and women are highly guarded in Iran. Their society is heavily segregated by gender. Men and women who are not related may not have any contact. Young men and women are often stopped in public and asked to show proof that they are related. Those that have broken this rule may be detained, fined, and even punished. Because of this segregation many women feel that it is suffocating them. Girls have few choices after high school they are often forced to marry or go to college. Going to college will delay marriage for young girls by another four years. Attending a college or university allows them to escape their restrictive home environments and gives them a chance to be away from the scrutiny of their family and neighbors. “Young women were flocking...
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...interest in learning and promoted humanism roughly from the 14th to 17th century, strongly encouraging the education for all men, including women. Yet while it is generally accepted that women had wider access to education as humanists valued the education of all people, the majority of women who received an education in the Italian Renaissance were still largely of nobility; the primary goals of which were still related to domestic purposes and did not, in any way, attempt to change their social position. Since the Middle Ages, a typical father did not desire a learned daughter as it threatened the order of the household, engendering lax housekeeping and marital discord. The Italian humanist Lucrezia Marinelli further explained this with the theory that male hostility to female learning was because they feared to lose their dominion over women. The popular belief about the life of a Renaissance woman was that her role was one of “subjugation; she should have no control over her life.” With pedagogical theorists believing that a woman should acquire learning appropriate to her expected role as an adult, there was a new granting of permission of women to be educated. In 16th century Italy, approximately 33% of Venetian boys aged six through fifteen and I2 to 13% of Venetian girls were literate in 1587-88. While the percentage for literate women may appear disappointing, comparative figures suggest slightly lower literacy for regions of Europe lacking...
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...female students: the community of women within the schools, and gender relationships as women became more active in the public sphere and transformed their social identities. Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz finds that the designs of early female institutions consciously intended them as a place and space for the exclusive use of women. Margaret Nash identifies class and race as more important than gender in the construction of such educational institutions, as individuals who saw themselves as members of a newly emerging ‘middling class” struggled for self-definition, making education an emblem of class status. Mary Kelly argues that with a curriculum that often matched the course of study at male colleges, women’s liberal learning cultivated one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation’s history: the movement of women into public life. Christie Anne Farnham questions the paradox of offering women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of...
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...GENTLEMAN Ladies & Gentleman Linda Crisp Strayer University World Culture 1 100 Dr. Marco Robinson August 30, 2014 Ladies & Gentleman Ladies and Gentlemen or should I say women vs. men in today society. Well rounded, what does this really mean to people? Some people believed the woman are more well rounded and men and vise versa. There is different definition for people being well rounded. I believe the well rounded people are well planned, work hard, balanced, set goals and are skilled and capable of doing more than one thing. They are the jack of all trades. There will be a discussion on the comments people made about what they think well rounded people are and the book of the Courtier by Baldassare and what they feel well rounded people were consider to be. Show a different in studies done on men vs. women in all aspects in being consisted well rounded. In the book of Courtier by Baldassare described the perfect well rounded man or woman, whose education and deportment is best, fashioned to serve the prince. The first two books debate the qualities of ideal gentlemen. The goal was to be a completely well-rounded person. The ideal person must be a solider not only mastering the martial arts but demonstrating absolute bravery and loyalty. Must be liberal education including Latin and Greek French and Spanish. The well rounded person must be able to draw, appreciate the arts and excel in dance and music. Over the entire well-rounded person must demonstrate...
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...Sexualization of Girls and Women in the United States: A Growing Epidemic Kayla Johnson Chamberlain College of Nursing Sexualization of Girls and Women in the United States: A Growing Epidemic Brittany, a freshman in High School arrives at her home after school and turns on the T.V to watch MTV music videos. She watches the T.V. as half naked girls dance in the background of male singers. She picks up her phone to get on Instagram where she scrolls through images of famous women like Rhianna and Kim Kardashian who post scantily clad images of their bodies. Brittany thinks to herself, “I wish that I looked like these girls, maybe if I looked more like them the boys at school would like me more”. Brittany’s mother gets home from work and puts dinner on the dining room table. Brittany sits down and eats only a portion of her meal because in the back of her mind she is still feeling as though her own body is inadequate, she could probably lose more weight and if only she had bigger boobs and longer legs, maybe then she would feel better about herself. She lies in bed that night and wishes that she had a better body so that she could feel beautiful and happy. If only she knew that thousands of other girls were feeling the same way, maybe she would realize that the issue isn’t her own body- the issue is the cultural emphasis on female sexualization that has become a norm in our society. Unfortunately girls all over the world are struggling with self-confidence related to...
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...example, women of the 19th century were primarily expected to marry and serve their husbands’ wishes, not receive an education, go out with friends, or find new forms of amusement. Instead, women were required to be at home and loyally obey their husbands. But how long can one go without exploring the inner intricacies of oneself? In her critical essay “Laugh of the Medusa”, Hélène Cixous looks upon the woman who “allows herself to be threatened by the big dick” (347) with contempt and scorn. Still, this intimidation that men have instilled in women is not easily overcome. Colette (1873-1954) and Jean Stubbs (1926- ) expose the risks that come with the discovery of a woman’s true desires in their short stories, “The Secret Woman” and “Cousin Lewis”. When the false woman is revealed, she suffers and is tormented by ridicule or shame even more than when she was in hiding. Cixous wants women to stand out and be who they are by embracing their bodies and being proud of their femininity. Women need to stop being reduced to “the servant of the militant male, his shadow” (338). “Laugh of the Medusa”, is a proclamation to women writers to “write about women and bring women to writing” (334) and to stop hating themselves and hating other women for being women- celebrate each other’s femininity and set free the body! Cixous wants women to make the world fear them though their identity and femininity; not fear the world because they are insignificant servants of the male. Women should not...
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...play written by Ntozake Shange at the peak of the black feminist movement, in 1975. It is a collection of poems that tell the story of seven women of color and how their lives interconnect. The play deal with deep subject matter such as rape, abortions, domestic abuse, and faith, as is delves into the lives of these women. The play ends as all of the women come together with an empowering scene about the strength in womanhood. How do struggles, specifically ones imposed on women such as rape and domestic abuse, create strength and empowerment that would have never been attained without enduring such life experiences? In For Colored Girls, all of the women find strength in each other and faith in order to overcome their individual struggles and find strength to continue on with life. They become stronger individuals that they once were and that strong power that they now posses is from believe in themselves and their ability to persevere. In the 2009 film, Precious, a young girl lives through torment as she grows up in section 8 housing with an abusive mother and father, but when she decides that she has had enough she breaks free to try to obtain the life she has always dreamed of. Precious can be understood within the context of Ntozake Shange's play For Colored Girls because Precious endures many similar life experiences as the women of For Colored Girls. Precious is a sixteen year old girl who lives with her mother and father in section 8 housing, she goes to high school...
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...Kristen Ngan is the name. The type of girl who is very adventurous, creative, “kikay”, loves collecting girly things, fashion and colors! I can say that every object in my plate, symbolizes me or my personality. The “Pink Shoe” and the “Pearl Bracelet” represents Fashion. I've always had a 'Passion For Fashion’. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been reading fashion and beauty magazines. I was always wondering how women could bring out the best in themselves. In fashion, my biggest inspirations are definitely Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Gabrielle Chanel. They show the difference between a woman and a lady. In my free time I like to read fashion magazines, fashion and beauty blogs. I love to surf the internet to look up all sorts of fashion online shops. Not just to see what’s new, but to get inspired as well. Being involved into “fashion” is really a big thing for me. Because in that way i help myself increase my self-esteem. My interest in fashion started at a young age. I enjoyed spending my days alone playing with my Barbies. I repurposed their clothes with a stapler and tape and gave them haircuts to match their look. The “Green Ribbon” represents how girly I am. The “Red Nail Polish”. When I became a teenager, like I said, I love colors! and so I’ve been very addicted to nail polish. Its just I’m so plain, without them. And I really take good care of my nails. Also, believed in the saying “Nails Are Like Jewels, Don't Use Them Like Tools”. The “MAC...
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...woman’s hero in her time because she was all about women having equality. She spent five years researching a book dealing with what she called the “problem with no name”. This excerpt gives a general view on how she felt as a woman who took a back seat to her own life to become the “American House Wife”. She discuss how women would try to make themselves believe that being the good wife was what you had to be and living behind the shadows of a man was acceptable. In this document Friedan wants people to know exactly what occurred during the feminist movement. How women's rights came to a reality, how women believed there was only one role to have which is a typical housewife that has a husband to overpower her. Not being able to vote, or have any rights as an equal to men. This means father not mother, children of both sexes needed to learn, recognize and respect the abilities and functions of each sex. No matter what, the men were in charge. Next, Friedan discussed how women where brought up believing when they grow up, they are to marry and have children. Going to college is what is a woman had to do, but graduating wasn’t required. Being well educated is shown to be unfeminine. Men didn't enjoy a woman knowing information they knew. Men wanted women uneducated, men were supposed to be the only one educated in the household. The role of women was to find a husband to support the family that they would raise. Many women dropped out of college or never went in the first...
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...Top companies of India that use diversity as one of their strengths: 1. Infosys The diversity team at Infosys focuses on propagating and promoting diversity and inclusivity among employees through ACTION which stands for: * Audit inclusivity and diversity levels * Create change agents * Train the managers * Initiate and implement alternate work models * Organize and assist affinity groups * Network with external bodies to benchmark practices Infosys Women Inclusivity Network (IWIN) promotes a gender-sensitive work environment. IWIN recognizes the unique aspirations and needs of women. It provides avenues for vocational, personal and psychological counsel to enable professional and personal development. Infosys won the first NASSCOM-India Today corporate award for excellence in gender inclusivity in 2007. Infosys actively seeks to hire and train persons with disabilities. In 2006 and 2007,Infosys BPO received the Helen Keller award for the best employer from the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP).Infosys announced an intake of 300 graduates from universities in the US in 2006 and about 25 from universities in the UK in 2007 as part of itscommitment to create a diversified workforce. The new employees will develop their engineering skills at Infosys Development Centers across India for six months before returning to Infosys offices in the US. 2. Google India Diversity is an essential component of the culture...
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