17% of the world is illiterate. Two thirds of these people are women. Millions of girls around the world are still denied a basic education.
How is America different?
How is America different?
"Once upon a time, it was a man's world. Men possessed most of the tools one needed for power and success: muscles, connections, control of crucial social institutions. This year [2005], 133 women will graduate from college for every 100 men. [Girls] are more likely to take advance placement courses and the hardest math courses, and are more likely to be straight-A students. They have much higher reading and writing scores on national assessment tests. Boys still enjoy an advantage on math and science tests, but that gap is smaller and closing. For 30 years, attention has focused on feminine equality...It's time to look at the other half"
This artifact illustrates the modern changes we are seeing in education, particularly in the statistics of how girls and women are performing in schools. It poses the question about true equality: we've focused so long on women in education, but what happens when women start to get a better education than men? True equality means that both sexes receive equal education, but is this artifact questions whether or not that's really what we're striving for.
HOW GIRLS PERFORM IN GROUP PROJECTS
This article describes the different roles that children take on in group projects in school and how they show gender roles at work. For example, girls tend to take more of a secretary job, organizing and taking data. Meanwhile, boys get to mess around and have little worries about the actual job at hand because the girl is doing the brunt of the work.
"Women earn 30 percent more bachelor's degrees than men and some 50 percent more master's degrees. The boys educational endeavor faces the challenge of dealing with downward drift... Worries that it is boys who are being left behind could be the good we need"
Similar to the previous artifact, this quote shows the growing divide between the numbers of men and women earning bachelor's and master's degrees. Surprisingly, women actually receive more than men in both of these areas, showing an immense growth of women's role in the education system and subsequently in the workforce.