Women's Education in developing countries

In the article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is declared that “Everyone has the right to education” (UN, 1948).

Regardless of the development of civilization, girls and women are still discriminated against in accessing education and within education systems. As stated by the UNICEF (2013), ‘State of the World’s Children report’, 65 million girls in the world are being deprived of an education. Also two thirds of illiterate adults are women. In the numerous underdeveloped countries, education is not considered as a guaranteed right and frequently is an exclusive privilege to obtain an education of any level.

Causes of illiteracy:
In the developing countries are numerous obstacles to girls' education like: poverty, pregnancy, child marriage and discriminatory gender. Moreover, school fees, the risk of violence on the way to school or in school and the alleged benefits of girls’ domestic work are keeping girls uneducated. Very often, pregnancy and child marriage cut short adolescent girls’ education before they have finished secondary school.

Benefits of women's education:

Education is one of the most significant global resources and it has to be easily reached for women and men. By helping women to achieve their education potential, the future of humankind will be stronger. Accepting of women to have equal rights and treatment in developing countries has a diversity of benefits. Reducing workplace discrimination involve more women could work as an alternative of being outsiders to the progress of a country. Expansion of the career opportunities and general rights for women may also conduct to more investment from developed countries who can find more cultural relationship with the developing country. Moreover, researches have revealed that women are better at spending money in ways that benefit children than men. Unfortunately, around the world, women are earning considerably less (24%) than men. (Sifferlin, 2015).

In the developing countries, empowering women could create enormous human capital resources, resulting decreasing of poverty, generating new businesses and also the existent industries could be invigorated.

The Australian charity organization "One Girl" also added that " The longer a girl is educated, the greater the benefits" (2016).

Uneducated women have no control over their reproductive lives and this implies larger families and less healthy children. Researchers have revealed that the health of children relies very much on the level of education of their mothers (Cleve-Mosse, 1993: 83). The programs for children's protection can be easier put into practice when the mothers are capable of reading the medical instructions that may save a child 's life. For example, a literate women could deal better with the precarious situations caused by diarrhoea. A child's life can rely on the mother's capability to prepare an oral rehydration formula in the proportions shown on the medication's label.

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa children whose mothers have received secondary schooling are twice as possible to be immunized against major disease as those whose mothers had not been to school. Knowledgeable women offer improved nutrition to their children, and their awareness of health risks defend their families against diseases and encourages health-seeking behaviour more generally. That way, child mortality rates are higher in families where the mother has no education compared with families where both parents have attended school. For instance, In sub-Saharan Africa, children whose mothers have more than seven years of education have less than half the under 5 mortality rate of the children of uneducated women. With uneducated mothers, there is probability of children developing malnutrition, in particular children less than three years old who are malnourished (Watkins, 2010).