Dbq Gender Equality

Gender equality in education is a recent achievement in America, women now have access to the same amount of classes and programs as men, if not more. Women are no longer suggested to take family finance classes or interior design as they were at one point in time. Starting with Title IX, a bill that states: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, women’s role in education has only increased since the passing of this bill. Education for women has come a long way. Before Title IX, women have had a struggle for equal rights in education, but now, and over the past few decades, education rights are essentially equal among men and women, if not higher for women.
To start off, more and more women are receiving bachelor degrees, and the signs are just looking brighter and brighter. In the year 1981, women and men had about the same number of bachelor degrees conferred, at about 480,000 each. Since then women have had a constant increase, leaving the number of degrees to be hundreds of thousands higher. At the end of 2006, there were about 900,000 bachelor degrees for women, leaving a measly 600,000 for men (Source E). If women had the upper hand by 300,000 back in 2006, the based on the statistics of this graph, the number of recipients has only gone up on the road to modern-day, 2016. Based on this, the number of women with bachelor degrees in 2016 is most-likely surpassed 1,000,000. Gender equality in education is clearly present, and shows that women really are more capable than