Women taking active part. In the near past, women were considered inferior to men. They were debarred from taking part in social life. Their sphere of activities was limited to domestic work. Up to the 19th century, it believed that women were not allowed to take part in political and social life and administration.
Rousseau, the French philosopher, who never married, once said: The dignity of women consists in being unknown to world-her glory in the esteem of her husband; her pleasure, the happiness of her family. But time create new situations and the old outlook underwent a change.
Men and women have been created by God for complementing each other, but only because females are physically weak, male dominated society's created misperceptions about their inward and outward personalities.
Few misperceptions and myths about women:
Women are intellectually deficient
Women cannot keep secret
Women speak a lot
Women are more materialistic etc.
The backwardness of a country depends mainly on the percentage of illiteracy. This percentage is very high among men in the world, but it reaches at alarming figure in the case of women. So, for the progress of a country, education for women is as much essential as that of men. Men and women are two wheels of the cart of society. The cart can't run properly if one of the wheels is defective.
Women form almost half of the population of the world. if such a large portion if denied the privilege of education, the world is bound to leg behind There was a time when it was said that educated women apt to neglect their domestic duties and lose their tender grace, and feminine virtues.
Advantages of education for women
Women play various roles in society, so there are many advantages of education for women.
Educated women are many conversant with her duties as a citizen of a state. An educated woman is aware of the part she has to play in the growth of her nation. She understands her responsibilites towards herself, her family, country and world. Women can't become good citizens if they are uneducated. Moreover, they pass on their education to their children. It has been rightly said, If you educate a man educate an individual; but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Important role being a mother
A mother yields a great influence on her child. The upbringing of a child, the inculcation of good ideas and habits are done more by the mothers than the fathers or teachers. An educated mother can serve for world in the sense that she produces good citizens with tolerant views and vast outlooks. Uneducated women are superstitious. They do not have elementry medical knowledge. The alarming figure of infant mortality is mostly due to the ignorance of mothers. Educated mothers will give the nation healthy enlightened and decently brought up children.
Quite recently women have come to take more and more prominent part in many spheres of life. In some respects, they have excelled men. In sports, intellectual and artistic pursuits, in office and industry, they have set a record of honesty and efficiency.
There is practically no field where women are not competing with men.
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