Parental Discrimination in Terms of Giving Education

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PARENTAL

DISCRIMINATION IN

TERMS OF GIVING

EDUCATION

PREPARED

BY:

MMD.OSMAN

GONI

ID Number:

1030927030

Course:

ENG105

DATE OF

SUBMISSION:16/04/13

PREPARED

FOR:

INSTRUCTORS

NAME

Michelle Draper

(McD)


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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to start by thanking my teacher who has encouraged me and allowed me to do my

research paper on Parental Discrimination in terms of giving Education. Without her guidance

and support it would have been nearly impossible for me to complete this research. I especially

like to thank those who completed my survey questionnaires, all the students, parents who have

given me time from their very busy schedule,. Lastly I would like to thank my parents and my

friends who have encouraged me to write this proposal.

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ABSTRACT

In my proposed research, which is I have chosen to do on Parental discrimination in terms of

giving education. I have found out that people have a negative perception towards female kids

regarding education. Actually Less Importance would be more appropriate instead of Negative

perception. When I interviewed and did survey on various people, I got to know that most of the

females believe parental discrimination in terms of giving education in the early life is the reason

behind their slow development. They agreed that directly or indirectly, somehow most of the

female kids get discriminated. The third world countrys children face the parental

discrimination in terms of giving education most .During my research, I worked with many

secondary sources, most of those sources were from third world countries, which gives us an

idea about the reason of massive gender discrimination in every field of work .My research

showed me that even after ensuring equal, sometimes more opportunities, women are still

lagging behind and the reason for that is the lack of confidence and skill. No matter how many

resources I give you ,if you dont have proper skill, knowledge and confidence ,you will never be

able to utilize the opportunities you are getting. Discrimination beings the disagreement, the

discrimination in the early life, creates a clear difference in the siblings, they got the idea of in

equality. Since it happened in their early life ,so it gets set in their mind and they cultivate this in

the future. A dominating and superior feeling come into males perception and most of the

females have the totally opposite perception, they feel inferior and starts to believe males are

superior. This is the reason of lagging behind of women


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TABLE OF CONTENT

SECTION Page Number

Introduction V

Background Vi

Areas of Research Vii

Hypothesis

Methodology

Viii

Viii

Primary Data Presentation & Analysis

Secondary Data Presentation & Analysis

iX-xx

xxi-xxii

Limitation xxii

Conclusion

References

xxiii

xxiv


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Introduction

In this 21st

century Women Right, this is the most highlighted topic. We are talking about

these things for a long time. Government ,people ,different NGOs ,institutions are always talks

about women right .have you ever thought that ,why this issue is so highlighted ,why its not

solving yet ,why people never talk about male right .the fact is ,women are lagging behind ,in

this modern age ,our educated society cant be agree with the thing inequality ,they are

desperate to remove it, thats why everyone is talking about women ,right ,discrimination and

this is how women discrimination became the most highlighted topic. But did you ever thought

of the reason behind it, its proven that knowledge is power ,education creates skills ,confidence

.Overall the resources of going forward ,winning is built into someone by knowledge. But in our

society ,especially in third world countries ,most of the female kids dont get proper education,

their parents gives more emphasis on their male kids ,as a result the base of female become

weak .As we know we cant move faster with a broken skeleton, in a same way if your base is

not strong ,if you dont have proper knowledge ,education then how come you expect to move

forward in a same speed with the man. Male kids got preference ,they receive the proper

knowledge ,as a result skills and confidence builds into them ,thats why they move forward in a

greater speed ,they earn their rights .In this competitive world ,if you cant earn your rights ,you

wont get in ,you have to attain it. Due to parental discrimination in terms of giving education

,subconsciously parents creates a line between their Childs and because of the extra privilege

,male kids starts to feel special and most importantly he feels female kids are not special like

him, so here introduce the term inequality which gets severe in the long run .


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BACKGROUND

Discrimination is the prejudicial or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on their

actual or perceived membership in a certain group and category such as their sex, age,

nationality, skin color, religion. Parental discrimination in terms of giving education refers,

parents priority of giving proper education towards their children. Most of the tie, parents gives

more priorities to either their sons or daughters for securing the proper education. They give

more opportunities to one particular gender and thus discriminate with the other gender kids.

Most of the time it happens like, male kids are getting more chances to incurring education

compare to their sisters.

In countries like Bangladesh the society has a point of view that male deserves more priority

.parents gives more emphasis on their male children in terms of giving education, they are more

serious about their male kids education. How the ale kids are doing, what can really improve his

education; parents are concerned about these more. They think first for their male kids then their

female kids regarding education .they discrimination has a huge impact .Todays most highlighted

topic Gender discrimination, women right has derived from it.For the discrimination of giving

education makes the victim weak in the field of knowledge, as a result, victims become less

skilled, So they fail to compete with male in their long run. There are always exceptions but I am

talking as general. From the early stage of life, kids saw that males are getting more priority;

parents are caring about them ore regarding education. This feeling subconsciously makes them

feel superior. On the other side, female kids feel inferior. As a result an em-balance creates

between them which affects their relationship both in the early and future life .I have surveyed

on more than thirty people asked them thirteen questions related to parental discrimination and

its affects. I researched how it affects children life in the long run


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Area of Research

We have found out parental discrimination in terms of giving education creates a thought in the

female kid that they are not equal to the male kid ,the female kids started to believe that male

kids are more special, they have the higher priority. Female will stay behind of male,

subconsciously this phycology builds up .Again deprivation of equal opportunity of receiving

education hampers female kids mental growth. Its very simple to understand ,if you dont get

the light of education in your preparation stage of life ,then obviously you will not have a

stronger base of knowledge which will put you behind .Same thing happens with the female kids

in the third world countries like Bangladesh .We know that knowledge is power ,key element of

mental growth ,absence of proper education will reduce the mental growth rate what makes

people inefficient .Same thing happens with female ,lack of education makes them inefficient

.Discrimination interrupts the balance of siblings ,what often creates a bitter relationship between

the siblings .parents and society often underestimates the necessity of females proper education.

Less education, less opportunity makes women less productive. Their skills dont develop well,

as a result they remain less confident .Because of all of these, Women are still lagging behind of

men

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HYPOTHESIS

Parental discrimination in terms of giving education is happening very often in our society. Its

damaging our society a lot, especially women are affecting a lot .In their early stage of life,

which is the time of preparation, they are getting deprived of equal opportunity of receiving

education, what breaks their spirit from the beginning. Women are affecting in many ways for

the parental discrimination, they are finding themselves weak compare to men in their parents

eyes, becoming less confident in early age, their relation with siblings changes, it turned into a

bitter one and eventually in the long run they lag behind from

Methodology

Primary Data

For my primary data I have conducted a survey on 3 groups of people

1) General People

2) Parents

I basically emphasized more on final year students and the people who are now in job sector .So

that I can get a matured answer. In my questionnaires, I have asked 13 different questions to get

a clear view of their perspective regarding parental discrimination in terms of giving education.

People of different age group answered the survey questionnaires. The question were started with

basic questions like age, sex and if they liked to cook or not. Gradually the questions became

more intense and made them think. The questionnaires were designed to make sure that they


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provide the best possible way to provide information that let me know about what they think

about parental discrimination and how it affecting women development

Secondary Data

For my Secondary Research I have used resources in the library .I have also browsed the internet

and read blogs of male chefs and their autobiography. I would use standard search engines like

Bing and Google to enhance my research. For the books I have used Shelfari.com which had lot

of books on my research topic. I have read articles online and surfed Wikipedia.

Primary Data Presentation and Analysis

Do you thi nk parents do discrimination in terms of giving education among their children ?

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Yes No


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In the bar chart above we can see that most of the people I have surveyed believe that parents do

discrimination in terms of giving education, 6 out of 10 people believe that parents do

discriminate their child when it comes to give the priority of giving education.Again 4 out of 10

people also disagree with that, they think parents dont discriminate children in terms of giving

education

From the above chart we can determine that most of the people thinks parental discrimination in

terms of giving education occurs but we can also say that there are almost equal number of

people who also disagree with the statement

On which basis ,parents do discr iminate in terms of giving education ?

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Gender Merit Circustances


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In the bar chart above shows the answers of my question on which basis, parents do

discrimination in terms of giving education among the children.4 out of 10 people said parents

do it on the basis of gender ,4 out of 10 said ,its merit and 1 out of 10 said ,it depends on the

circumstances. Now we can see that ,most of the people think ,almost half of the people said this

discrimination occurs based on gender ,again almost equal number of people said its Merit. From

this statistics we can determine that Gender basis parents do discrimination most,


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Do you think ,parents give more prior it ies to their male chi ldr en ?

The bar chats above shows most of the people think parents give more priority to the male kids.

4 out of 10 people said male kids get more priority, 3 out of 10 people totally disagreed with it

and 3 out of 10 people said it depends on the situation; parents took decision of giving priority

according to the situation. So from the statistics given above we can determine that, most of the

people think parents gives more priority to the make kids

I believe that from the point of view from a Bangladeshi chef the salary that they earn might be

very low but as soon as people will understand the value and importance of a chef it will rise

exponentially.

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0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

5

Yes No Depends on Situation


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Have you ever faced discrimination in terms of receiving education fr om your parents ?

When I asked this question ,most of the people got a bit tensed ,a bit embarrass .Some were

unwilling to give answer .Eventually 6 out of 20 people said ,they faced discrimination in terms

of receiving education and 4 out of 10 disagreed .the people who said yes ,they explained that

,their siblings ,especially male siblings are studying aboard and they are studying here. Most of

my surveys filled up by NSU students which is a top university in Bangladesh .if here 4 out 10

people says ,they were discriminated ,so we can get a idea that ,in the rest of the universities the

number of discriminated people will be higher .

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Yes No


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Why parents do discriminate their children in terms of giving education ?

The bar chat above shows that ,7 out of 10 people believe that parents give male kids more

priority because they believe male kids will take care of them in future ,since female kid will stay

will have new family after getting married ,they cant take care of them.Again,3 out of 10 people

said ,Our society has a perception that women has less chance to be successful .So that parents

gives more priority to male kids .And 1 out of 10 people said ,there can be other issues like

handicap and many other

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Women have less

chance to build a

successful career

Future Security Others

Series 3

Series 2

Series 1


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Do you think gi rl s are often become the victim in terms of giving education f rom their parents

This bar chat above clearly shows that ,most of the people believe when discrimination occurs regarding

education ,girls often become the victim .Among 9 out of 10 people agreed with the statement while

only 1 out of 10 people disagreed the agreement

Do you think, because of this discrimination ,girls often find themselves less important ?

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

5

Yes No


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This data in the bar chart shows ,10 out of 5 people thinks girls find them less important or feel down

where 2 of them disagreed with the statement and 3 out of 10 people said ,girls get motivated instead

.They want to prove themselves and start working hard in a double speed .From the statistics ,we can

estimate that more often girls feel less important due to the discrimination done by their parents

Do you think because of this discrimination in the early life ,the culture of discrimination sets in

childrens mind in the early stage of their lives and they cultivate this in the future?

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

yes No Get motivatedinstead


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The bar chart shows that ,7 out of 10 believe that due to the discrimination ,the culture of

discrimination sets in childrens mind in the early stage of their lives and they cultivate it in the future .3

out of 7 people totally disagreed with this statement .From the statistics we can determine that

,discrimination has a massive impact in the long run and severely affect the society

Do you think parental discrimination in terms of giving education brings a change between the

relationship inn a negative way ?

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Category 1 No


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The bar chart above shows that ,due to discrimination ,4 out of 10 people thinks a bitter

relationship creates among siblings where 3 out of 10 people totally disagreed .Again 3 out of 10

people agreed that changes occurs but they think its not a major change or a negative change.

From the statistics we can say that, Change in siblings relationship occurs in a negative way.

Do you believe that this discrimination demoralizes the female persons from going ahead at the early

stage of their life and eventually affects women development ?

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

5

yes No No major change


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The bar chart above shows that ,6 out of 10 people believes parental discrimination in terms of

education demoralize women and hamper their development .2 out of 10 people disagreed with

the statement .But 2 out of 10 people said ,yes it affects women development but not that severe

Do you think this discrimination occurred in the early life is the main reason behind women

backwardness?

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Yes No To some extent


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The bar chart above shows that ,4 out of 10 people believe that discrimination in early life is the

main reason behind women backwardness ,where 2 of 10 people disagreed with the statement

.But 4 out of 10 people said ,May be this is not totally liable for the backwardness of women, but

we cant agree that this discrimination has no effect .They said its one of the major reason behind

but there are some other reasons too. From the statistics we can say that ,most of the people

believes directly ,indirectly parental discrimination in terms of giving education the main reason

behind the backwardness of women .

0

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

yes No To some extent


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Secondary Data Presentation & Analysis

Electronic Media :

1. Alderman. & King, E.M., (1998). Gender differences in parental investment in

Education. Structur al Change and Economic Dynamics. 9 (4), pp.453-468

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040X

In this article, two researchers investigate the parents ways of thinking in investing their children

Education. it indicates that disparities in investment could come through differences in returns

Realized by parents, for example, in the probability of transfers from children to parents or in the

Degree of sympathy or altruism

2. Jens , B., & Esping-Andersen, G. (2009). Family Investments in ChildrenProductivities,

Preferences, and Parental Child Care (Vol. 27). London: Oxford university press

http://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xml

In this article, the researchers mostly talked about the elements ,on which parents made their

decisions towards children. Parents view towards childrens productivity, their preference in

terms of giving education and other facts has been discussed in this article
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040Xhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040Xhttp://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xmlhttp://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xmlhttp://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xmlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040X


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3. Lundberg,S, (2005). Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior. Oxford Review of economic

policy. 21 (e.g. 2), pp.340-356

http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/340.abstract

In this article ,the researchers talked about ,The prevalence of son preference and its implications

for family behavior in developing countries have received a great deal of scholarly attention, but

Child-gender bias is believed to be empirically unimportant in wealthy, non-traditional societies.

Here they also talked about how the lagging behind of girls affecting society, family bonds and

Other issues

4. Miller,B.D, (1987). Female Infanticide and Child Neglect in Rural North India. Chil d Survival

Culture, Il lness and Healing. 11 , pp.95-112

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_5

This article talks about the negligence faced in rural girls of north India. Girls from North India

are deprived of study, what keeps them behind in the long run and eventually the society finds

them nonproductive and so they face negligence

Television

UNICEF (Producer).(2005).MEENA{Television Series].NY: New York

Meena is widely recognized and appreciated in most South Asian countries, and is a successful

advocacy and teaching tool for girls and childrens rights. The Meena figure has achieved
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we expect it to give the same harvest. I suggest people who are willing to do research on this

topic ,should go much more inside and visit the areas where women are in the most backward

position .So the researcher will get clear view and can do better research .

References:

Bibliography

1. Alderman. & King, E.M., (1998). Gender differences in parental investment in

Education. Structur al Change and Economic Dynamics. 9 (4), pp.453-468

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040X

2. Jens , B., & Esping-Andersen, G. (2009). Family Investments in ChildrenProductivities,

Preferences, and Parental Child Care (Vol. 27). London: Oxford university press

http://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xml

3.Lundberg,S, (2005). Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behavior. Oxford Review of economic

policy. 21 (e.g. 2), pp.340-356

http://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/340.abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040Xhttp://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xmlhttp://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/340.abstracthttp://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/340.abstracthttp://oxrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/3/340.abstracthttp://journals2.scholarsportal.info/details.xqy?uri=/02667215/v27i0001/43_fiicpapcc.xmlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X9800040X


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4. Miller,B.D, (1987). Female Infanticide and Child Neglect in Rural North India. Chil d Survival

Culture, Il lness and Healing. 11 , pp.95-112

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-3393-4_5

5. UNICEF (Producer).(2005).MEENA{Television Series].NY: New York
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