- Research in Educational Administration and Leadership (REAL)
- Volume:5 Issue:2
- Gender Justice, Education and Equality: Creating Capabilities for Girls’ and Women’s Development
Gender Justice, Education and Equality: Creating Capabilities for Girls’ and Women’s Development
Authors : Ecem KARLIDAGDENNIS
Pages : 624-628
Doi:10.30828/real/2020.2.10
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Publication Date : 2020-10-02
Article Type : Review Paper
Abstract :Education is a basic human right; “everyone has the right education” as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognised in 1948 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(UNESCO, 2007);. However, many girls and women cannot access education due to persistent gender bias and inequalities in societies insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(UNESCO, 2014);. As Cin insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2017); highlights in her book, around the world, approximately “65 million girls are not schooled and two-thirds of the world’s 774 million illiterate are female” insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p.3);. Even though it is well-known that access to a quality of education helps to eliminate gender bias and patriarchal values that exist in societies, most of the current educational systems across the world reflect and reproduce gender inequalities and prejudices.Keywords : gender equality, education, justice
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