Every woman has a nature to be a housewife. It is often used
as a reason that a woman does not need a higher education
if she only stays at home or becomes a housewife. It is the social stigma that
is still growing in our environment. However, being a highly educated woman is
important. We have to change the social stigma.The following reasons why being
a highly educated woman is important are:
Firstly, nowadays we live in globalization era when all
people including women are required to follow all developments. Highly educated
people will simply follow all the developments that occurr and will continue to
develop. Highly educated people will easily socialize because they have a lot
of relations, they will have a great social life. A woman has to bend over
backwards to be a highly educated woman, so she will survive in this era
because education is one of the tools to empower a woman and according to
Dr.Josephine Azuka Onyido from University of Port Harcourt in his paper
entitled Education and Women in the Era of Globalization, he said that “women
education is an essential tool for individual family and national development,
women should seize all the avenues open to them to go to school to increase
their social and political power in the society, this is a strong reason why
goverments around the world should assume the responsibility to provide and
finance education especially basic education for women.“ In this globalization
era, if a woman does not get an education, she looks like an old school woman.
Secondly, as we know that in this
era, women are demanding equality with men. They do not want any difference
between women and men. Most women in this age do not want if they only become a
housewife. They prefer to be a housewife and also a career woman. They want to
apply the knowledge that they had gained in college, want to interact more with
the outside world, want to help her husband to improve family’s economy. They
do not want to stay at home all the time to do housework but they want to
interact with the outside world. It is all about woman empowerment. According
to Manjeet Sharma, she is a secretary of the Forum of Women in Public Sector,
in her speech she said that “Education is recognized as a crucial measure.
Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the
knowledge, skills, and self confidence necessary to participate fully in the
development process.” Thus, I assume that education is the best way to empower
quality of a woman.
Thirdly, one of the duties of a housewife is to
educate their children, so a mother must ensure that their children are well
developed. We know that the primary education for children is not from formal
education or non-formal education but from informal education, that is from the
family and the environment. If there is an educated mother in a family, they will have educated children. It is easy for an educated
mother to manage her children. You can imagine if a woman is uneducated. I
believe that she cannot manage her children well, especially in her children’s
education. According to Wikipedia “an educated women play a more active role in
the family also brings about social benefits for family members.” Take a look
in the first reason that nowadays we live in globalization era, so as a mother,
they really need to know about all the good and the bad forms of developments.
Hence, they can anticipate if there are bad possibilities of any changes of
this era for their children. I conclude that how the condition of a family is a
reflection of who the woman is.
Some of the reasons and the researches which I mentioned
above are quite clear that being a highly educated woman is very beneficial for your own life, especially in this
age and whatever your decision later, being a housewife or a career woman or
both of them, being a highly educated woman is important. Hence, I dare you to
be a highly educated woman.
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