Co-Education in the World

Here are some major benefits of Co-Education in the World context.

• The Co-education system also promotes the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. It also sustains the process to fulfill the UN’s commitment to promote the equality between genders.
• Overall in India, men had much more education than women and only 62% of women received no schooling at all. Gender equality is a global priority of UN. As per the data, in modern context 122 million girls and 128 million boys are out of school. In this whole world, almost two-thirds of all adults are unable to read. To solve these problems Co-Education can be beneficial.
• China adopted a co-education system in 1949 to ensure equal education for all genders.
• In India, 96% of schools are co-educational. Among these, 2% cater exclusively to boys, while 3% are designated for girls.
• Co-education in the United States is standard practice. Students of both genders typically share classrooms throughout their education.
• Co-education became widespread practice in Western Europe after the Reformation.
• It followed calls from certain Protestant groups to teach boys and girls together to read the Bible.
• Many developing countries, like Cuba, adopted co-education after World War II. But the social norms and religious rules have held back its success in other countries.

Co-education is an educational system where students of both genders study in the same institution. It also provides a feeling of equality among the students and pushes them to build up a cooperative mindset.

In this article, we are going to learn the top 10 benefits of Co-Education in detail.