Who are we? We are a group of four young ladies enrolled in WOMS 230: Women, Sex, and Gender Today at Northern Illinois University. Each of us come from different backgrounds, not one of us are the same but yet we are united together because of our passion for education, women, and how they intertwine. This website is a part of our Action Research Project.
Our Action Research Project deals with the education of girls in Tanzania. The girls there do not get a quality education, and this is a problem that we can all help solve. By educating the girls of Tanzania, we can help improve the economy and the quality of life there. This is a problem because education is overlooked in other countries and other cultures and to us we believe education is the greatest privilege and that everyone should have that privilege regardless of their age, religion, and sex.
This problem is significant to feminism because everyone should be able to get a good education, regardless of gender. By educating these girls, we can help them grow into intelligent women who can lead better lives and help their community.
Throughout our experience through the ARP we all learned how much of a blessing education is and how blessed we are living in a country where we are required to gain an education and our sex doesn't determine whether we go ahead and go to university or get married and live an uneducated life. We believe that this project prepared us in a lot of ways. Mostly by us even raising a little money for schools in Tanzania we learned that small things can add up and they can grow from there. We want to continue to make an impact in this world, and help our fellow females.
This problem is significant to feminism because everyone should be able to get a good education, regardless of gender. By educating these girls, we can help them grow into intelligent women who can lead better lives and help their community.
Throughout our experience through the ARP we all learned how much of a blessing education is and how blessed we are living in a country where we are required to gain an education and our sex doesn't determine whether we go ahead and go to university or get married and live an uneducated life. We believe that this project prepared us in a lot of ways. Mostly by us even raising a little money for schools in Tanzania we learned that small things can add up and they can grow from there. We want to continue to make an impact in this world, and help our fellow females.
This graph just shows the differences between education of male and female in Tanzania. This is an interesting thing to look at and analyze because one can really realize how much of a privilege education is in our society.