Muslim Women in education

A majority of citizens in Muslim majority countries over 60 percent disagree with the notion that a university education is more important for a man than for women. They’re some barriers to girl’s education because some families lack resource to educate all of their children. However female education in Arab countries has made some big gains in the world with literacy rates and gender enrollment gap decreasing since 1970. Also there is a growing acceptance of women working. 77 percent of Egyptian youth support a woman’s right to hold a job for which they are qualified.  One of the highest women’s labor force participation in the Middle East rate is 45 percent. As conservative women focus on the importance of women’s role as wives and mothers, women activists in Islamic groups are largely educated professionals. This is also the same for Christian female activist in the United States; they most often work outside of the home.

  I feel this is such a great change how many people are against the fact that men deserve education more then women. People are trying to make women equal in the Islamic society and make everyone equal. They even add that women make the best education professors. They are given women a chance to prove themselves and here we are after many years of not being equal we are getting  what we want. 

Rizzo, Helen. "Dispelling Myths on Muslim Gender Equality." MuslimVillage.com. MuslimVillage28, 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 09 Oct. 2013.