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Therefore, education has been placed on the policy priorities, and the rapid expansion of the number of educational institutions at all levels has greatly increased women's educational opportunities. In particular, after the World Conference on Education for All, women's education received special attention in Africa and achieved rapid development.
Discrimination in education is the act of discriminating against people belonging to certain demographics in enjoying full right to education. It is a violation of human rights . Education discrimination can be on the basis of ethnicity , nationality , age, gender, race, economic condition, language spoken, caste , disability and religion .
Sex differences in education are a type of sex discrimination in the education system affecting both men and women during and after their educational experiences. [1] Men are more likely to be literate on a global average, although higher literacy scores for women are prevalent in many countries. [ 2 ]
Women's education has cognitive benefits for women as well. [13] Improved cognitive abilities increase the quality of life for women [ 12 ] and also lead to other benefits. One example of this is the fact that educated women are better able to make decisions related to health, both for themselves and their children. [ 13 ]
At the Fourth World Conference on Women of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, governments globally committed to a detailed action plan. It highlighted the importance of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for women and girls. [336] 1996: United States United States v.
Social stigmas can occur in many different forms. The most common deal with culture, gender, race, religion, illness and disease. Individuals who are stigmatized usually feel different and devalued by others. Stigma may also be described as a label that associates a person to a set of unwanted characteristics that form a stereotype.
[1] The principle gives the most general understanding of women's treatment of linguistic variables, in that when variables are not undergoing any change, women tend to prefer the standard form of the variable to the non-standard form. It is a commonly occurring phenomenon that sociolinguists have observed in a wide array of societies.
In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183-207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online