Afghanistan: The only country that bans girls' education.
Nearly a year after the Taliban seized control, Afghanistan has notoriously become the world's only country where girls are forbidden from attending secondary schools, solely because of their gender.
After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, they banned most women and girls from attending high school. While they had repeatedly promised the international community that the ban was temporary, in March the group abruptly reneged on a promise to allow most girls back to school.
Women's education in Pakistan is a fundamental right of every female citizen, according to article thirty-seven of the Constitution of Pakistan, but gender discrepancies still exist in the educational sector.
Several research studies show that poverty, child marriage, disinterest in schooling, distantly located schools and lack of safety in schools and on the way to schools are some of the leading reasons why girls, especially from these marginalised communities, are out of school.
1. Afghanistan. Afghanistan ranks last out of 170 countries on the WPS Index and 157th out of 162 on the UN Gender Inequality Index.
Today, there is practically no gender gap in the opportunity for education in Japan. Even in the upper secondary education and higher education levels, difference of enrollment ratios between male and female students is scarcely present.
On April 1, 2022, Japan lowered the legal age of adulthood to 18 years old. Some two million people who are 18 and 19 years old came of age in Japan on that day. This follows revision of the Civil Code, which first set the legal age at 20-year-old in 1876. It's the first time this has been changed in over 140 years.
In some high schools in Japan, the dress code may be strict, with teachers checking students' uniforms meticulously, even nail and hair length! Also, don't wear makeup, nail polish, or piercings at school; keep those for when you let your hair down on the weekend.
As a result, the uniform rules change was brought forward to November 2021, and female students could buy and wear pants in boys' sizes if they wished to do so. Maria Isogai, a second-year student, quickly started wearing pants to school.
According to the Gender Inequality Index (GII), Denmark was the most gender equal country in the world in 2021. The Gender Inequality Index measures reflecting inequality in achievement between women and men in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market.
Ireland scored the highest among nearly all of the factors Bounce analyzed in its study. The country ranked at the top for having laws in place to protect women from violence and its people's attitudes toward violence against women.
Sweden leads the pack in self-identifying feminist with 46% of the women in that country giving the nod to that description. Considered the gold standard of gender parity, Sweden's equal opportunity in employment, health care, and a litany of social safety protections.
There are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.
Hong Kong has the lowest gender ratio of 84.48, followed by Martinique (85.01). Curaçao, Nepal, and Guadeloupe are in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th positions, respectively.
Patriarchy is a site of oppression for women in Australia. All systems and institutions are patriarchal – health systems, legal systems, legislation, education systems, decision-making -political and governments systems, welfare system, and so on are all developed within patriarchal ideology.
Women's Day
There are only twelve countries in the world which offer full legal protections to women, according to the report Women, Business and the Law 2022, recently published by the World Bank.
A form of sex discrimination in the educational system, gender inequalities in education impact both men and women during and after their educational experiences. On a global scale, men are more likely to be literate, even though higher literacy rates for women are common in several nations.
A ponytail ban is just one of many draconian rules, known as buraku kosoku, imposed on students in Japan. The laundry list of restrictions also dictate the shade of students' underwear and socks, skirt length and eyebrow shape.
According to Sugiyama, school administrators where he used to teach told him that girls were not to wear ponytails because exposing the nape of the female neck could “conjure sexual feelings” among male students.
A Rule Meant to Ensure Gender Equality Is Keeping Girls Out of Classrooms. In addition to removing the rules on hair and underwear colors, schools will also now allow a wider range of hairstyles, such as a two-block haircut—short on the sides and back while long on top.
But dyeing hair some other shade was generally frowned upon, especially since schools and companies had rules against it for many years. Today, however, it's common to dye one's hair brown, and even "blondes" are not unusual in Japan.
Public school dress codes often dictate that pupils have black hair, wear white underwear and wear their hair down—schoolgirls remain barred from wearing ponytails in parts of the country based on the sexist justification that their necks could “sexually excite” male students.