Paragraph 82(a)-(c) of the Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. B. Education and Training of Women
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/13
Strategic objective B.3.
Improve women’s access to vocational training, science and technology, and continuing education
Actions to be taken
82. By Governments, in cooperation with employers, workers and trade unions, international and non-governmental organizations, including women’s and youth organizations, and educational institutions:
- Develop and implement education, training and retraining policies for women, especially young women and women re-entering the labour market, to provide skills to meet the needs of a changing socio-economic context for improving their employment opportunities;
- Provide recognition to non-formal educational opportunities for girls and women in the educational system;
- Provide information to women and girls on the availability and benefits of vocational training, training programmes in science and technology and programmes of continuing education;
Beijing Declaration (1995)
The Beijing Declaration, as a rights document with an extensive set of stipulations and recommendations, deals with the rights of women as persons. By analogy, we can see women as legal persons in a democracy with the ability to vote.
It required long, hard struggles for many women. There are new problems that arise with each generation, but there are, certainly, common problems among subpopulations around the world.
We can see this in the educational domains without a doubt. In some areas, the motivational ceiling for young men in postsecondary institutions and glass ceilings for women in many areas of the world.
If we want a more just society, our goals should be consonant with these facts and working to reduce the problem areas. The ones mentioned here are the educational and training regimes with women in mind.
The ability of women to be able to retrain, upgrade education and earn higher-earning and stable jobs. The ceilings would be prevention from entering into the educational environment or being able to attain the jobs (for women). For men, it would be resentment or lack of guidance into pursuing lifestyles and targeted objectives with long-term impacts on their lives and livelihoods. Civilizations can collapse if men lack motivation and women are completely restricted – no oars for the rowboat, worse than circles.
The recognition of the non-formal educational opportunities for women is, also, an important development in the educational systems of the world. We can see the opportunities for girls and women in areas to garner some support systems.
But we lack the recognition of this as real education; something worth recognizing to the point of providing certification. Why can we not do this? Or if we are doing it, why can we not do this more broadly, comprehensively through the recognition of women’s contributions to the various areas of society?
Even with the provisions available, the more sexist elements of a society thrive on the ignorance of women, imposed from the outside with deliberate negative intent.
The knowledge about areas for continuing education, retraining, and becoming involved in the educational and work world are integral to the flourishing of early 21st century societies, for the continued prosperity of the advanced industrial economies and the improved general social development indices of developing societies. These can be done, vigorously. But there is work to prevent it.
–One can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3, Article 7, and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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