Importance of Girl's education in Nepal

 

Importance of Girl's education in Nepal
By Sneha Pariyar

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world, said Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the first South African President. However, many girls and women in Nepal still need to dream of getting a quality education and becoming working professionals. According to the Government of Nepal, the Office of the Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers, in 2021 only 69.4% of women in Nepal are literate, which means 30.6% of women still need to acquire basic literacy. Hence, breaking the barrier of social shackles and accessing education has become a huge challenge for many girls in my country. 


Poor accessibility of education to women is the main cause of their misery and widespread suffering. They cannot grab state benefits and remain backward and forgotten. Seeing the plight of many women in my country, I have decided to bring awareness to women through my writings. I want to work for women's education and social challenges. I firmly believe that only education can help women achieve their desired goals. They can build up a character, personality, and skills necessary to growing and becoming self-dependent.  


Let’s not forget that an educated woman always cultivates and maintains a good quality of life for herself and her family by teaching good human qualities. However, many girls in Nepal do not get adequate opportunities, especially those who live in villages and are from poor economic backgrounds. The situation has turned bad to worse for the women who are from lower castes. I have personally met those girls and women and have felt the pain and sadness in their faces. It is heartbreaking to see them watching other girls go to school with their friends while they continue to carry out household chores. 

The constitution of Nepal guarantees equal rights to education for men and women. However, such guarantees are confined within the book of laws only. Because in reality, women are not equal to men. They are still deprived of many facilities and benefits guaranteed to them by the law. Thus, there is no use of a law that is not implemented or poorly implemented. 

Our society is still male-dominated, where males make most of the major decisions in the family. A girl has to stay under her father’s control, and after marriage, she has to stay under her husband. Thus, she is never free to live her life according to her free will. 

Girls living in urban areas still enjoy some degree of accessibility to education. But this is not the case in many rural parts of the country. Most of the girls living in rural areas are burdened with household responsibilities and sometimes become subjects of child marriages. 

These girls’ shoulders are weighed down with sickles and spades to support their families and livestock. This way they cut down their dreams, hopes, and aspirations for their lives. Unfortunately, the government has not been able to replace those sickles in their hands with books and pencils. 

The lack of education severely affects the future of these women. They lack self-confidence, live with poor health conditions, make poor decisions for their lives, and often suffer from physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. They lack the skills and strengths to defend themselves and are unable to advocate for themselves. Moreover, at times many of these girls trust pimps and fall prey to human trafficking, rape, and domestic violence. With 51.13 % of people in Nepal being women (and if more than half of these women are powerless and are struggling to save themselves), how can we even imagine that they will be able to empower themselves, their families, society, and the nation? 

The subject of women's empowerment needs serious attention. There is a saying that if you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation. Now the time has come to enable Nepali girls and women to become skilled, educated, and independent. This will bring financial freedom to them. Women will earn a degree of self-respect in the family if they earn. 

Educated women are the backbone of a nation's development. They can walk together with men and make an equal contribution to the nation's development. All this and many more can be achieved only if our girls are well educated.

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