Global Migration🌍 - Human Rights Violations - 16 Marker

Question 1

Educational opportunity

Answer 1

• gender inequality in education favour males - MDG - achieve universal primary education
• girls suffer from severe disadvantages & exclusion in education - especially rural areas in poorer countries

Question 2

Describe how female education can improve the labour market

Answer 2

• helps to move women into the labour market & increase the production capacity of the labour force
• in countries of increasing educational equality - fertility rates, infant mortality & pop. growth rates have fallen
• family health & child nutrition have improved

Question 3

What have the UN established to improve girls eduction?

Answer 3

Girl’s Education Initiative - helps to achieve measurable change in girls education around the world

• only 40% of girls attend secondary school
• eg Lomé, Togo - created a workshop - promote gender-responsive education sector planning
• NGO’s - Coca Cola 5by20 Initiative - enables economic empowerment of 5 million female entrepreneurs by 2020 - focuses on small businesses - offering training, financial services + connections with peers + mentors

Question 4

Give examples of barriers marginalising women in education

Answer 4

• prevalence of child marriage - 1 in 3 teens marry before they’re 18 —> cascading effect on their lives - education ends, job prospects diminish & they become vulnerable to poverty & health suffers
• costs - usually girls who suffer
• patriarchal systems - women generally don’t have a secondary education as this won’t be of benefit to the family - send boys instead

Question 5

Describe how access to reproductive health services affects the labour market

Answer 5

• women living in poorer communities in developing world are at the biggest disadvantage - less likely to have access to health care/poor quality health care

Question 6

Describe how employment opportunity affects the labour market

Answer 6

• governmental & company childcare support - eg India - many maternity benefits denied by employers - Delhi - only 25% of women return to work after childbirth
• social acceptance of women as contributors to household income - eg India - women who’ve received full secondary + tertiary education don’t enter work forces as they conform to social norms of marriage & childbirth