PRIMARY EDUCATION AND GENDER EQUALITY | 页面 16

GIRLS’ EDUCATION Educating girls is very important because they are more independent and better integrated in society. It has a lot of importance also for their health and the health of their descenDANTS because they know how to protect themselves from diseases like AIDS and they are aware of the importance of vaccinatING their children. The fact of receivING education helps to avoid exploitation and raises women’s voices, being able to fight for their rights. Maternal deaths is another problem that education cans eradicate. Education is also a weapon to eliminate poverty, especially educated girls because for example they will can have salaries 10% or 20% higher. It’s is demostrated that if women administrate the money they will use it for basic things or they will spend it in areas that benefits their children. If women receive education they will be able to find a job and they’ll can support themselves and their families. So, now we have the positive things that educated girls could contribute to society, we only have to achieve that all girls in the world can go to school and if we get it we are also contributing to achieving ACHIEVE gender equality. We can achieve gender equality literating teaching women, permissing permitting they their access to credit, land and other resources, fighting for women’s rights, doing programs about reproductive health, let women take part in politic decisions, like choose the president of a country; intensifying labour policies and many other things that contibrute to an equal society. Education is very important, especially in the first years of life because in these years social competence, language acquisition, the ability to think critically and the capacity to learn are all developed. It is also important for to solve problems in developing countries like health, peace and stability. This shows us that education contr X