Women's Education

Today more girls than ever go to school. However, despite progress, women and girls continue to face multiple barriers based on gender and its intersections with other factors, such as age, ethnicity, poverty, and disability, in the equal enjoyment of the right to quality education. This includes barriers, at all levels, to access quality education and within education systems, institutions, and classrooms, such as:

• Harmful gender stereotypes

• Poverty

• Child marriage

• Inadequate and unsafe education infrastructure

• Gender based violence against women and girls

Gender stereotyping is one of the most harmful and problematic  barriers women have to face and overcome when it comes to education even in today’s day and age, In some cases, the education system, and particularly the curriculum, textbooks and teachers play a role in keeping alive harmful gender stereotypes, which has wide ranging and long lasting effects on girls throughout their lives from the course options and subjects they take, which influences their employment prospects, to their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.

A child learns from home, school and the environment. Hence, an educated mother has a great responsibility to educate her child properly. This is much more so in a developing nation like Pakistan