Many women recieve free education, many don't take advantage, while many other girls elsewhere aren't allowed schooling. Why do you think?

They are not smart and rely on men to do these things. It may not be apart of their culture or they are followers and do what others do instead of doing some critical thinking about their future.

The westernised world is a garden of Eden when it comes to rights and opportunities. Unfortunately the rest of the world doesn't have the same opportunities. Women spend the best years of their productive lives having and raising children. That is the most fundamental reason as to why so much more time is invested in boys education (especially in countries that do not have social systems to support families through gaps in employment). This mindset is hard to overcome. As a academic woman myself I can tell you it is not for lack of intelligence. In my class there is not ONE man :/ we are a loud and sassy bunch of ladies throughout ;)

so, you are saying because some women choose not to , they are ignorant and stupid ? i beg to differ....its their perogative and believe it or not some womens lives do evolve more around their children ,husbands, home ...and I applaud them.....:)there is nothing wrong with that.

Hi, Bella. Western Culture is far enough removed from agrarianism to be able to afford the extended adolescence necessary for higher education. Other cultures still cling to agrarian role models of females as homemakers and mothers. Overcoming those role model memes is very difficult, as evidenced by the Women's Lib movement in the 70s.

Universal female education requires, at the very least, these conditions: 1. That a system of education for anyone at all, girls or boys, exist. In North America, where people got a fresh start on building new countries, such a system became built into new territories in USA and Canada, less so in Latin America. 2. The culture must be supportive of, or at least not resistant to, female education. 3. The individual family unit must be supportive of, or at least not resistant to, female education. 4. Individual girls and women must see value in, and of their own initiative pursue, education. Consideration #1 stands on its own and provides the preconditions for the remaining considerations; #2, #3, and #4, which are inderdependent with each other. Using North American aboriginal peoples (aka Indians or Native Americans) as an example, they have many cultural legacies that were born of adaptations to survive close to the earth using tradition-tried methods. Unfortunately for modern living, those did not include written language, sitting in formal lessons, or an abundance of deferring life in the present for investment in a distant future. Some outside efforts to assimilate them through formal education were mostly unsuccessful, such as a USA practice in the early 20th century of sending Indian children to boarding schools where they were forbidden to use their native language or engage in traditional native ceremony or traditions. Current practice in their communities, such as reservations in the USA, ostensibly allows for respect for traditional living but nonetheless they have generally low rates of graduation or attainment of higher formal learning. The most fundamentally traditional Islamic societies are often held up as poster-child examples of cultural resistance to female education, reinforced by roles in which women are closely governed in their conduct as adults. Author Greg Mortenson in "Three Cups of Tea" provided accounts of how schools could be built in such places using peaceful humanitarian motives, with remarkable gains in female education ensuing. Unfortunately, deeper investigation of his actions and claims showed them to be highly exaggerated and sometimes outright fraudulent. Only foreign participation and might could bring back schooling for girls in Afghanistan. Generally speaking, there is a strong correlation between female education and economic development. http://www.prb.org/Publications/PolicyBriefs/EmpoweringWomenDevelopingSocietyFemaleEducationintheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica.aspx http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:20298916~menuPK:617572~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:282386,00.html

Women in America are leading the way for college education...e.g. my son has STILL not applied for college and he graduates in May. My daughter, a year younger, was just awarded a four year all expense paid college education. I am seeing the reverse of what my parents went through. Instead of trying to get my daughter to get her education, I am trying to get my son to get his. This weekend I am holding him down long enough to put in his application at the state college:( As a business graduate major, I can honestly say these programs are filled by WOMEN!