Education provides knowledge and helps develop important skills for defining career goals and preparing for the workforce. An educated person is more likely to be hired than a non-educated person. Overall, most people are not successful in their careers without a good educational foundation. Gender discrimination occurs when someone receives less favorable treatment due to their gender, and can be direct like refusing to hire someone due to their gender, or indirect like requiring military experience without good reason. Discrimination is sometimes allowed for certain jobs like modeling or performances requiring a specific gender.

1. Why is Education Important to your future?

2. Education Provides knowledge Helps you: - defining your goals/ career objectives - being prepared for the world of work - creating routines and habits of work - developing your skills - developing group work

3. An educated person is more easily hired than a non-educated person In conclusion, not many people succeed in the world of work without a good educational foundation.

4. School - Gives options / tells that everyone has the same rights Girls Boys Want Equality

5. Discrimination Gender Gap

6. What is sex discrimination ? Discrimination occurs when a person, or group of people, receives less favorable treatment on the basis of their gender. Discrimination can occur against job applicants or existing workers.

7. There are two types of gender discrimination: Direct discrimination (ex.: refusing to consider you for a job just because you are a woman or because you are a man) Indirect discrimination (ex.: saying, without good reason, that everyone applying for a job must have been in the armed forces).

8. Situations when an employer is “allowed” to discriminate: some jobs in single-sex institutions, such as hospitals and prisons; some jobs in private homes, such as a live-in care; when the job has a real physical need, such as modeling women’s clothing, or for a role in a play or other performance;

9. Earnings Nowadays “gender gap” is usually referring to systematic differences in the outcomes that men and women achieve in the labour market.

10. The Most Critical Areas of Gender Inequality Economic participation and opportunity Educational attainment Political empowerment Health and survival

11. Developed VS Developing countries Girls are encourage Can be as good as boys Have better future prospects Girls are neglected Worth less than a boy. End up dead, working 24-7 or in an enterprising of sex trafficking

12. Gender Gap in Developing Countries Neglect - baby girls are breastfeed for a shorter time than boys ; - Young girls receive less food, healthcare and fewer vaccinations than boys; - women have to pick the leftovers of the meals from men and boys.

13. Infanticide and Sex-Selective Abortion - Sex-Selective Abortion has increased as technology makes it simpler and cheaper to determine a fetus' gender.

14. Labour – since the age of 9 or 10 girls are considered useful enough to work at home. They have to work from before daybreak until the light drains away to serve their family, specially the men.

15. Sex Trafficking – approximately 1 million children around the world are involved in the sex trade; a third of all sex workers in Southeast Asia are between the ages of 12 and 17.

16. Gender Gap in Developed Countries Women have been attending college in larger numbers than men since 1985, and pocketing more college degrees. shrinking of earnings gap between men and women

17. Conclusion Education is the most important thing if one wants to have good future prospects Girls' Education = Breaking the Pattern of Gender Discrimination