Education and Gender Equality: The United States Perspective (Essay Sample)

Education and Gender Equality: The United States Perspective
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Education and Gender Equality: The United States Perspective
When then-first lady Hillary Clinton addressed the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, she famously declared human rights women's rights and vice versa. Since this historic speech, the US had made tremendous steps in ensuring equality in the education sector. Consequently, the US is one of the few advanced nations in the OECD where the average education and employment gaps between men and women are lower than the averages. Even then, more women shun away STEM subjects and degrees than men. As a result, this intellectual capacity gap leads to more male doctors, lawyers, engineers, and architects than female ones. The American education system fuels this gap through standardized testing founded on STEM subjects and teachers' personal bias favoring male to female students during test scoring.
Obama's inauguration as POTUS increased the government's focus on gender equity and equality. Within his first 100 days in office, he signed laws and launched programs focused on equitable education access. Consequently, the government's bilateral funding of gender equity programs rose from 0.05% in 2009 to 7.61 in 2016 (Kwauk, 2020). This investment in education increased female intellectual capacity promisingly, resulting in more opportunities for women in traditionally male-dominated occupations, such as medicine, law, architecture, and other science fields. Availing equal education opportunities to male and