Female Education Essay

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Education is usually understood as a course of study to obtain a body of knowledge or skills undertaken to enhance one's ability to do a particular job and be able to earn more money. The more liberal definitions of education, where it is understood as development and refinement of one's personality, without necessarily an eye to economic advantage, have been out of use for long, and one finds only spotted instances of the practice of education with such aims. There was a time when very few women received proper education. But now girls are receiving the highest education. In the developed world, women have surpassed men at many levels of education. For example, in the United States in 2005/2006, women earned 62% of Associate's degrees, 58% of Bachelor's degrees, 60% of Master's degrees, and 50% of Doctorates Improving girls' educational levels has been demonstrated to have clear impacts on the health and economic future of young women, which in turn improves the prospects of their entire community. In the poorest countries of the world, 50% of girls do not attend secondary school. Improving female education, and thus women's earning potential, improves the standard of living for their own children, as women invest more of their income in their families than men do. In fact the progress of any society largely depends on the effectiveness of its educational system and the best educational system is that which gives equal opportunities of getting education to all its members. Female literacy plays a very significant and crucial role in the development of nation especially in the economic development of a country. But Female Education in Pakistan, its status and standard particularly is at the lowest ebb. Thousands of girls who are intelligent and capable enough to get education, but are deprived of because of multifarious socio-cultural and economic reasons and
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