The report focuses on gender inequality in developing countries and the impact that will be created by educating the girl child to alleviate this paradigm and improve the provision of health care to women.
The report will also emphasize on the importance of educating the girl child in regards to provision of reproductive health care needs to the women, decrease in the vulnerability of women contracting sexually transmitted diseases and preventing the spread of these diseases in the human population, educating the women on prenatal, postnatal and child rearing care and defining the role of women as the supreme health care providers in their homes by teaching them their reproductive and health rights.
The report examines the provision of education to the girl child in Rwanda, Bangladesh and Tanzania by use of recorded information gathered earlier by researchers and organizations when they conducted their studies and surveys. Introduction Gender inequality has contributed to the discrimination of women because of the implementation of policies, programs, religious and cultural practices which prevents the empowerment of women in social, economical, political and psychological development.
For instance as Mammen & Paxson (2000) explained, men have achieved more than women in the education and health sector of the economy. Traditional practices and customary laws have also contributed to the high rate of illiteracy in women in the developing countries as they prevent women from attaining education (WHO 2007). Many communities for instance the Massai in Kenya have legalized early marriages through customary laws and therefore end up removing their girls from schools because they value the wealth they will earn from marring off their girls than educating them (UN 2001).
However, private sectors, government, international organizations, non-governmental organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN), human rights activists, church leaders and women organizations among others have held campaigns to fight against this mishap that women are facing especially in the developing countries. The aim of these campaigns is to empower women by providing them the same benefits and economy attributes availed to men. Case (2001), in his paper compares the empowerment of women to the liberation attained by countries after gaining independence.