Topic > Effects of Gender Inequality in Education - 1022

As noted above, there is an unfair judgment that suggests males are better and more important than females. Qiang et al. presents that surveys have shown that women from poor regions are more likely to drop out of school because they have fewer expectations of them and because they help the family with household chores, unlike males who have fewer responsibilities after school hours ( 67). This causes women to have less time or even no time at all to study after they get home from school, which leads to them having lower grades and may even cause them not to care about their education. Males, on the other hand, only have to help with “seasonal agricultural activities” leaving them time to dedicate themselves to schoolwork (Qiang et al. 69). Parents tend to invest more in the child who performs better academically, and since girls don't have as much time as boys, they won't be as successful. This is also caused by the fact that women are still seen as less important and that families prefer to leave their studies because in this way they will not have to invest in someone who will eventually get married and leave their surname, unlike men. who will inherit it. If a family has more children it is much more likely that the sons receive more and that their parents have higher expectations of them (75).