Advocating For Women In Education

Groups have been advocating for women in education for over 100 years, and maybe now it’s time that the world realized that women can be just as successful as men, given the same opportunities.

There is only one way for women to achieve real equality in the workplace and on the payroll, and that is through the quality of their education.

For over one hundred years women have been fighting for their rights. Their rights to vote, their rights for equality, their rights to a University education, and for all intents and purposes they have won, haven’t they? There are now more and more women graduating from university each year, and the sheer numbers have surpassed the men in many subjects, but there are still some subjects which women find taboo, and, coincidentally, they are often the subjects which can lead to a higher ranking profession and a higher salary.

Changing the Education for Women in the Future

So what’s going wrong? Who is shouting the case for women in education and helping to change their options of the future. Should women want to change their options, or are they happy as they are? Well, for one thing, the engineering world could certainly profit from having a larger range of suitably talented and qualified women to choose from. The world market place is extremely competitive, and in order to compete we need the very best of the best, the cream of the crop to forge our engineering industry successfully through this century, but many women, who are more than adequately capable and talented in the required areas (math and science) shun away from this male dominated environment in favor of more ‘socially acceptable’ professions.

Women do fundamentally think and behave a little differently than men, and often tend to allow themselves to be overshadowed by the men in discussions and projects, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have lots of information and advice which is well worth listening to.

Confidence

Many women lack the sheer confidence to compete with men in this culturally male dominated profession, but with a few small changes to create an environment more accepting towards females, then there could be positive gains for all concerned. Positive reinforcement at the earliest stages of math and science in school can help girls to believe that they can be good at math and science, that they are just as good as the boys (in fact, very often early results show that they are actually better) they’ve just got to believe in themselves and the world is their oyster.