The ratio of girls to boys in Nigerian schools.

## Hello, everyone. I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners featured post. Lately there have been some changes in my country's educational system. There were times when some traditions kicked against having women get Western education, but over time that has become a thing of the past. We have also had some religions stand as a hindrance to women securing an educational certificate; instead, they prefer that women do more religious studies and only get religious certificates.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/selective-focus-photography-of-standing-girl-in-uniform-inside-blue-painted-room-with-classmates-nWpTGnP_jWE) We also used to have a lot of men with the belief that the education and certificate of a woman ends up with her in the kitchen cooking and taking care of her family, so why waste money sending her to school when she can just stay home and perfect her cooking skills while learning how to take care of the home and family, which schools will not teach her? And for that reason, many men did not bother sending their female children to schools or giving them the support they needed to make their dreams a reality. So many girls have heard their dreams tampered with all because of religious beliefs, traditional beliefs, or even personal beliefs that claim not to support women's education. So many girls had the dream of becoming doctors too; they dreamt of becoming engineers, and some dreamt of becoming nurses, but religion, tradition, or personal beliefs stood in the way, and that dream was not actualized, as they ended up becoming full-time housewives with no educational certificate at all. In those days we had a serious gender inequality problem where women were believed to only belong in the kitchen and take care of the home while the men went out daily to make sure that all that the woman needed to take care of the home was provided. In those days women were believed to be homemakers, and anything that would tamper with that was strongly fought against and stopped from happening. In those days women were treated wrongly because they were believed to be weaker vessels, while men got more favors because they are believed to always get the job done. Since time immemorial there has been an ongoing fight for gender equality; everyone wants a world where both men and women are treated equally or are allowed to pursue their dreams and not one gender allowed to pursue their dreams while the other is tied to the kitchen. It took a lot to achieve that and get both religions, traditions, and people with personal beliefs to see things from a different perspective and allow women to pursue their academic dreams. Some regions, like the northern part of my country, have not completely accepted women's education, but there are a lot of changes compared to how things used to be.  [Source](https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-of-children-in-graduation-gowns-holding-diplomas-BQK-dUPB58w) Currently, things have changed and are no longer the way they used to be. In my country today, it even feels like the ratio of women to the ratio of men in school is unequal, as there seem to be more women in school compared to men. The population of women in many Nigerian schools currently outnumbers the number of men; in a class of 200 students, you can find only 40 men, and the rest are women. Both genders are now allowed and given the support that they need to support their dreams.