TITLE:
Gender Equity in Education
AUTHORS:
Elmas Sahin
KEYWORDS:
Gender; Equity; Inequity; Education; Tradition
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.1,
January
8,
2014
ABSTRACT: Numerous
studies show that society often treats boys and girls differently. Although
gender inequalities in education have changed much in recent decades
thanks to the fight for women’s rights, inequity between
the sexes continues to flourish nowadays. This article focuses on how and why
education is the key to gender equality, and the importance of gender equity in education system
in order to create a better environment for girls under traditional pressures.
It will also query whether a philosophy of education offering the same
opportunities to young women and men, teaching the same things at the same
time, in the same place, with the same methods, and under the same system is
necessary or not.