''Currently 75 million children, of whom 41 million are girls, do not go to primary school. Education International reports that women and girls face particular obstacles that keep them out of education, including:violence on the way to school, in and around schools; early pregnancy and early marriage; vulnerability to the HIV epidemic, discrimination based on gender stereotypes in the wider community and at schools; school fees, which may mean that parents send their boys and not their girls to school; and lack of gender sensitive quality education especially in rural areas.''
This blog relates to the group discussion that was most recently due. Not enough girls and women are allowed to go to school to get an education in some countries because the men want them to do other things. Some girls are getting pregnant or are forced to marry someone that they don not even know. This is a problem for some women in counties such as Asia and Africa because their population is so high but the women are not allowed to get an education because they have to stay home and take care of the younger children and babies, as well as cleaning, cooking, and finding food.
Most girls and women cannot get an education because they are not wealthy enough to be sent to school. The girls who are able to get an education are most likely to have a healthier family and be able to get married later on in life. The article states that ''Education helps girls and women to know their rights and to gain confidence to claim them. However, women's literacy rates are significantly lower than men's in most developing countries.'' This shows that some women who can get an education should be able to be confident in their rights and possibly do what some of the men have rights to do based off of how educated they are.
http://www.economist.com/node/17155748
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