It’s Time We Start Educating Our Women For Good

You don’t have to be a woman yourself to understand why education for women is an important asset for the world as a whole. Women today are caught up in a heterogeneity of challenges, challenges ranging from infant mortality to advancing diseases. Education can play a lead in grappling with such issues, where better knowledge can increase their chances of avoiding them.

Education not just supports personal tropes, but also strengthens economies. When the female citizens of a nation are well learned, they have a greater probability of gaining potential employment opportunities which will in return increase the income of the whole household. You can find enough evidence in the 2003 study conducted by UNESCO, which demonstrates that for every consecutive year that records an increase in the average years of schooling, it’s long-term economic growth increases by an average of 3.7%. Let’s further read about the cause and effect of lack of education.

It affects mental health

When women are not given access to education, it impacts their mental health. Though women are reasonably responsible for taking on the important tasks of managing household and raising children, most of them are still not allowed to hold a property in their name, work for a living or even chose their own spouse. We don’t condemn to live a life which centers around the hom, but when women are not given an option on how to manage it, this whole task of being a homemaker can get deeply isolating.

This kind of isolation can lead women to higher levels of depression along with some other health issues. Similarly, when women are allowed to gain a sufficient level of education, they can experience to have a better life even in their professional sphere. Women education is important as it also allow them to join other communities and make further choices that are based solely on their own likings.

It affects reproductive health

Lack of education also affects the reproductive health outcomes like higher infant mortality rates and unintended pregnancy. And it not only affects women but also negatively impacts the future generation – children born under these circumstances have to struggle a lot to break through this vicious cycle, obtain an education and get out of poverty themselves.

On the contrary, educated-young girls who have received education, decide to have fewer children with healthy pregnancy cycles. Because of attaining education, they are also well informed about their reproductive health and follow wholesome family planning methods. They keep a check on any life-threatening symptoms and even when they choose to have children, they make sure that the baby is born healthy and given a better start in life.

Education and literacy correlate with higher salaries

According a study done by World Bank, only one year of secondary education given to a young girl is equal to a simultaneous wage increase of 25%, in some years down the line. Just this single step can break the cycle of  poverty in more than 1 generation. Educated women can also choose to have a female child and bring her up in a wealthier household, and make sure that her daughter obtains even higher level of schooling. Further, she will raise children who will further grow up to carry on the trend forward and maintain mobility in the family. Every time a woman invests another year in attaining education, she takes a step forward to a better future.

Not just this, literacy heavily impacts a woman’s earnings and that higher income is often invested back into the family, working for the welfare of the household. It’s high time to start looking outside our own communities and consider giving women an acceptable access to education on a global level. As both, man and woman are said business leaders, and they have equal rights to be educated and form their own opinions. If you want to see the economy of your country grow yearly, we must advocate the issue of women education and those with less opportunity. Remember, when we help women educate themselves, we are truly helping everyone.