2.+Research+Question

**Research Question: Is there any relationship between Women’s Education and Gender equality?**

As we Hong Kong people live in a fair gender equality society, we have no idea about gender inequality and even do not understand what is gender inequality. However, in our real world, some women live in gender inequality countries, and face various kind of problem, such as insufficient health service. In our research, we argue that the main factor affecting gender inequality is women’s education. The increasing of the women's status is the result from more women 's education in a society (Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case studies from the developing world: P.189) because if women do not have knowledge and abilities, they cannot compete with men in their country. And it is admitted that if there are more educated women in a country, gender inequality will be addressed as education is the only way to gain knowledge and to strive their equal status in the country. Thus, women are more confident in the society; they can get a job and earn a living for their family. (Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case studies from the developing world P.189) As a result, sex discrimination will be disappeared since women and men both have the same rights to do the same things in a country. And in our research, besides the five countries of our country reports, we have chosen the other two countries - Japan and India with the reason that Japan is the only one developed country among the seven countries which can see whether gender inequality is the result from a developed country; and also the reason we have chosen India is the situation of gender inequality is quite similar to the five countries which we did it in our country reports before. So to begin with our study, we will first show the gender gap index among the seven countries to illustrate the seriousness of gender inequality. Second, we are going to use the statistics of female enrollment share in primary level and secondary level from UNESCO and the statistics of male literacy rate and female literacy rate from CIA World Factbook to explain the proportion of girls in the schools of their own countries and to reflect the people’s abilities working in the society respectively. Third, we will analyse those statistics one by one. Fourth, we will analyse the relationship between the women’s education and the gender equality. Finally, we will show how different kinds of organizations help to solve the women’s education and gender inequality, and we will discuss whether those assistance successes or not.

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