Access to Education

The United States is fortunate enough to have grown throughout the years to recognize women as equal to men but in countries around the world, the reality of life is not so kind to women. The US recognized at a very young age that it is important for everyone to be educated. Through views such as Republican Motherhood, a woman would receive the same education as a man to educate her children and raise them with good moral, principles and strong views backing democracy. This gave women an opportunity to have a valid voice that was backed up by the idea that their ideas were not less than a man’s because she was just as educated as the men around her. In other countries, women are not even being given a chance. It is estimated that in developing countries, one out of every four girls had not received their primary school education. Without an education girls cannot so easily acquire a job to make money and support herself. She can not adequately teach her children. She is not aware of all the things going on around her and is not aware of the opportunity available to her. In developing countries, women are estimated to work two-thirds of the amount that men do but receive one-tenth of what men  make. In these same countries women are struggling to family plan. There are about 74 million unplanned pregnancies every year ultimately resulting in 36 million abortions annually. One in three women are also estimated to be victims of sexual violence in the form of sexual trafficking, rape, domestic abuse, or gender based violence. Another shocking piece of evidence is shown through the statistic that 140 million girls will be married to older men while they are children between the years 2011 and 2020. These are issues plaguing the women of the world and these are issues we should be concerned about.