Social Issues Affecting Females in Jamaica
Education and Social Issues –Females In Jamaica
Education is important for everyone, but it is especially significant for girls and women. This is true not only because education is an entry point to other opportunities, but also because the educational achievements of women can have ripple effects within the family and across generations. Investing in girls ' education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and girl’s results are principally high dividends. In Jamaica I think/ believe girls are cleverer, better-behaved and try harder than boys at school from a very young age. As globalization calls for higher levels of education, persons especially women are on the move to increase their academic standard. However as time progresses and persons get older some tend to loose their focus due to a number of issues which includes their socio economic status and early pregnancy.
According to a study done by University of the West Indies, home factors such as family structure, socioeconomic status, and educational attainment influenced school participation by both sexes; and also that the majority of both sexes in the out-of-school sample dropped out of school between grades 7 and 9. It also stated that in comparison more girls than boys continued through to grade 11. Financial constraints were the main reasons for drop-out for both sexes, while pregnancy for the girls and violence in the communities for the boys were the two other frequently cited reasons but as persons gets older they realize the need to upgrade themselves in order to achieve. There may however be some issues to workout as there will now the need for sustaining the new and additional expenses.
Resulting from workshops conducted by the Combined Disabilities Association (CDA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health/Global Fund project between 2006 – 2009, information relayed are that when females want to upgrade themselves academically a number of things are taken into
Education is important for everyone, but it is especially significant for girls and women. This is true not only because education is an entry point to other opportunities, but also because the educational achievements of women can have ripple effects within the family and across generations. Investing in girls ' education is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and girl’s results are principally high dividends. In Jamaica I think/ believe girls are cleverer, better-behaved and try harder than boys at school from a very young age. As globalization calls for higher levels of education, persons especially women are on the move to increase their academic standard. However as time progresses and persons get older some tend to loose their focus due to a number of issues which includes their socio economic status and early pregnancy.
According to a study done by University of the West Indies, home factors such as family structure, socioeconomic status, and educational attainment influenced school participation by both sexes; and also that the majority of both sexes in the out-of-school sample dropped out of school between grades 7 and 9. It also stated that in comparison more girls than boys continued through to grade 11. Financial constraints were the main reasons for drop-out for both sexes, while pregnancy for the girls and violence in the communities for the boys were the two other frequently cited reasons but as persons gets older they realize the need to upgrade themselves in order to achieve. There may however be some issues to workout as there will now the need for sustaining the new and additional expenses.
Resulting from workshops conducted by the Combined Disabilities Association (CDA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health/Global Fund project between 2006 – 2009, information relayed are that when females want to upgrade themselves academically a number of things are taken into
References: 4 Jul, 2007 , n.pag “A Gender Analysis of the Educational Achievement of Boys and Girls in the Jamaican Educational System.” (N.p.),(n.d.), n.pag