Gender Parity in Education and Employment: A Global Perspective.

Abstract

Education is a basic human right; and it plays a significant role in the development of a human being, a society, a community and a country. At personal level education imparts self-confidence, self-motivation, carefulness, and the desire and ability to set personal goals for the future. Providing education to all children, especially girl children, works as important catalyst to save and improve the lives of women and girls, to cut the trap of poverty, to reduce gender inequality, to fight with the spread of HIV/AIDs and other diseases, to increase the standard of living of the family, to form stronger families, to improve child health, to attain higher economic growth, to achieve better services, etc.