Inequality In Education Essay

Inequality between male and female existed from the beginning of human civilization and still not be solved in today’s modern society. Discrimination is coming from social classes, and people always look down upon others in lower level. Although women are doing well in education and schooling, they are still facing inequality in work and society. So women will be in lower classes and be discriminated. The government and women still need work on this.

Education
In Canada, women generally do better in education and schooling than men with more number of students and higher grades. From the figure 1 we can see that the percentage of women among full-time university enrolments raised in the past two decades. Nearly 60 per cent of university students are female.

One factor that makes women do better in academic learning is the academic electives system. “In a system of academic electives, girls are more likely to drop out of mathematics, physics and chemistry than boys, and they are more likely to avoid industrial arts altogether.”(Gaskell, 2006) And the system can separate most girls and boys into different majors. That means both gender will specialise in

Most of women with children need to find the balance between work and family. In most families, mothers have to use more time to take care of their kids than fathers do. “About four-in-ten working mothers (42%) say that at some point in their working life, they had reduced their hours in order to care for a child or other family member, while just 28% of working fathers say they had done the same” (Parker, 2015) So these mothers cannot only focus on their work and career. Pregnancy is a question that need to be taken into consideration for women who want to have their first or another baby. Pregnancy will reduce their efficiency and also keep women from work. Therefore, “many employers often hesitate to recruit women as they feel that pregnancy may keep them away from work.”(Shukla,