Women have recorded a progressive trend in terms of education and schooling over the past decade. 20 years ago, a small group of middle age women has posted secondary education certificate. But today, the trend has changed, and more women are generally doing better than men in education and climbing the career ladder. This assertion should support the fact that educating women is much better than educating men.
Statistics reveal that education indicators of women are much more beneficial than men. Women tend to do more in education than men and the gap are forever widening. Girls tend to score better marks than boys in elementary and secondary schools. Women work harder in school and are more concerned about their G.P.A than their male counterparts. This proves a point that if women are given the same opportunities and concentration as their male colleagues in regards to education, they are more likely to outpace them and develop into better managers and career personnel.
This fact is replicated from the elementary all the way to colleges and universities. A quarter century after women enrolment in colleges and campuses overwhelmed men, the trend is not changing, and, in fact, the gap is widening every now and then. State statistics confirm this allegation and according to Department of Education in the US, women in whatever race and socioeconomic group are more likely to attain a bachelor degree. Men who do are, however, minimal in number and are less likely to do so after four or five years. Grades of men are far worse than those of women.
In elite institutions like Harvard and small liberal arts colleges like Dickson, women are walking off with disproportional shares of the honors degree in the expense of men. The same is replicated in large universities such as University of Wisconsin and U.C.L.A. Even small colleges like Florida Atlantic University have women dominating the honors portfolio.
Men are not fading away in the education system, but the women dominance is attributed to decrease in discrimination and the widening job opportunities. Women are now accorded the same rights and education standards as women unlike in the past where the balance tilted on the side of men. This empowerment is preparing women to emerge stronger and powerful often leapfrogging men in the academic race.
Statistics from Canada illustrate the fact that girls score higher in the first years at school than boys. This trend is spread across all fields from sciences, mathematics and reading. It is until the age of 15 that slight differences between the performance of boys and girls are noted. The same criteria were recorded with the adult population. In 2009, the adult literacy index confirmed that women aged between 16 and 65 outpaced their male counterparts in comprehension and interpretation of prose. Approximately 60% of women performed much better compared to 54% of men.
The same study determined the degree of readiness to learn of five years and nine year old boys and girls. The positive results inclined towards girls. They were found to be much better in terms of independence, communication skills, attention, self control and behavior. The nine year olds girls scored more in attention compared to their male counterparts. From this early age, it indicates that the probability of success in the girl child is much more pronounced than the boy child. These factors are further replicated later in adult life with considerable differences in graduation rates and career progress if purely based on merit.
Women are better performers in multitasking as compared to men. In the Canadian Statistics study for instance, 38% of full-time female students between the age of 15 and 19 held part time jobs while the percentage was only 28% in male students. Similar differences were noted in those pursuing bachelors and masters degrees. The trend did not affect their performance in any way.
In the 1950s, the rate of bachelor’s degree completion among men slugged considerably. By 1970, only 20% of men and 14% of women finished college. 2010 statistics suggest that women graduation rates are almost doubling at 36% compared to men’s 27%. The trend signifies that men are not putting enough efforts in terms of academic education. Women on the other side attribute good education and schooling to a better life. Most school girls term education and good grades as important and do everything in their efforts to attain such. Boy’s lack of concern and preparedness puts them on the disadvantaged side as most of them are unable to complete college education.
The growing number of girls’ graduation and completion rates signify the fact that girls should be accorded more consideration in course selection. Their rate of completion is unquestionable with better grades thus; academic stakeholders should focus more on the girl child in men-dominated science and technology courses. Women stand a chance to do more excellent things than men have done in the past decades if only they are accorded the same academic chances and career advancements their male counterparts are accorded. Gender stereotypes associated with men should not stand in the way of educating women. Male students are always deceived by the belief that they can drop out of school and still earn more wages than better educated women.
The focus should be shifted on educating women with potential of becoming great leaders rather than men who score poorly and are overly optimistic about earning huge salaries than well educated women. Various schools set their standards high and treat all students as individuals with capabilities and not gender groups. They nurture female students to invest in education as a toll for their liberation against male dominance. The results are astounding since more female students are tremendously rising and performing great things in society.
Scripps College is one such school in the United States. The college prides of Northeastern women’s colleges that have developed in terms academics and resources. The school is affiliated with Claremont Colleges and their students can take courses in Pomona, HarveyMudd, Pitzer and Claremont Mckenna. Out of a total enrollment of 985 students in 2011, 967 graduated showing the magnitude of seriousness in regards to academic excellence. The school has the best resources for the girl child excellence with a faculty to student ratio of 9:1.
Mississippi Women University is another perfect example of women’s higher institution of learning. The university is a public institution rated among the best colleges and regional universities in the U.S.A. It is the oldest public university in the US with the majority of the female enrolled. The university offer courses in humanities as well as science and technology and is dedicated to academic and leadership excellence.
Dubai Women’s College is situated in the Middle East. The university boost of state of the art facilities including classrooms, workshops, career centre and laboratories geared towards the provision of the best education and empowerment to women. The courses in these colleges vary. They include, applied communications, business, computer science and information technology, health sciences and education. The school was established in 1989 and has awarded almost 10,000 credentials. It is favorable for women empowerment and academic excellence and treats them no lesser than men. The school is well placed in terms of science and technology and is hailed as the epitome of technological advancements. Major international companies such as Intel, IBM, and Apple have partnered with the institution through their affiliate college Higher College of Technology-Dubai to provide the much anticipated support for women to breakthrough in the field of research, science and technology.
The challenges in most learning institutions lie in underrepresentation of female women in science, technology and engineering courses. Institutions such as universities have partnered with international agencies promoting education of women to nurture their potential and support them in achieving academic excellence. The UKs Women’s Engineering Society and Women in Science and Technology (WiSET) based at Sheffield Hallam University are some of the project that have recognized women’s performance and are providing a leverage for better utilization and advancement of their efforts. In this sense, most considerable aspects of academic learning and women leadership have proved that women education is much better productive as compared to men education. Their preparedness to learn is unbelievably high at a tender age, and their concern for good grades is also undisputed. This is the reason why their enrolment in colleges and universities is significantly increasing and their completion and graduation rates are amazing at over 90%. Therefore, I would not be wrong to assert that educating women is better than educating men.
Works Cited
Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade. Schools and society:a sociological approach to education. 2008. Pine Forge Press.
Rosin, Hanna. The End of Men:And the Rise of Women. 2012. Penguin Group US.
