I was obsessed to lead higher education one day after being graduate last year. As I see, many girls are more passionate being married in young age than being higher educated.
Based on data by Statistics Indonesia, in 2014, 19-24 y.o. boy's school participation is higher than girl's. It is only 22,66% of girl at 19-24 y.o attending school. Even though the participation rate is also small, boy at 19-24 y.o who attending school, is about 22,98%. But, let's see what happen with another class of age. Girl's participation rate of attending school is higher than boy at 7-18 age.
Paradigm society may be one reason why this happen. Our society still think that women should not study to college when they just ended cooking in the kitchen, nursing the kids at home, housekeeping. And I think society always come first on asking a young lady when-she-would-be-married. Boom! I think the possibility of young married girl to get higher education is lower than women who haven't married yet (it's just an hypothesis, I haven't tested it statistically). Just googling it, there're many reasons early marriage as a barrier to girl's education.
Paradigm society may be one reason why this happen. Our society still think that women should not study to college when they just ended cooking in the kitchen, nursing the kids at home, housekeeping. And I think society always come first on asking a young lady when-she-would-be-married. Boom! I think the possibility of young married girl to get higher education is lower than women who haven't married yet (it's just an hypothesis, I haven't tested it statistically). Just googling it, there're many reasons early marriage as a barrier to girl's education.
Just found this video months ago and wanna share it here. This is so inspiring short speech of US first lady, Michelle Obama.