Gender imbalance in varsity

JOURNAL 8
WEEK 9 (14/9/13)

                                        GENDER IMBALANCE IN VARSITY

          In our modern era today, the revelation of the new issue in our education which is more females than males in varsity has totally unnerved the male-dominated education authorities. Frankly speaking, this issue is not a new issue anymore as it started since 1996. Based on PM Najib Razak, a girl in Malaysian school is more likely to go to university than her male classmates as the country is reaping results of investing in education 'without gender discrimination. From this dialogue, we can conclude that females in our countries are outperformed than their males classmates since primary school. That is why they do not have a bright opportunity like their female classmates to enter varsity.

          The government is worrying about this issue not because of the intention to against women dominance in varsity but to ensure healthy growth among men and women because to have a healthy growth of community, there must be the balanced amount of men and women in it. As we know, God created men and women and unite them to become one as to complete each others' life. It is the same goes to a growth of one community. It needs women as well as men in it.

          As government is very concerned on this issue, a few researches have been carried out in order to gain the statistics of the gender in varsities around Malaysia. Based on a research, it stated that in local University, we can see very big difference of number of male and female students but in Private university, the difference is very small.

It is not only happens in West Malaysia but as well as in Borneo. For example, in UMS, the ratio of gender by students in 2010 is 60:30 while in UKM which was situated in Selangor showed a very high difference of ration in 2011 which is 70:30.

It was said to be an unusual gap because there are almost a balance number of men and women in Malaysia overall. On one occasion, Mohamed Khaled said, however, there was a “healthy balance” of male and female students for technical-based courses.

          After few meetings, Mohamed Khaled suggested that they will try and fix these problems at the secondary school level in order to achieve our target in future.

From the evident above, this issue should be perceived as a serious matter because it really give big impact to our future socioeconomic and community growth.