Down With Tuition

                         Racialized woman in Canada, still an issue today

I am inspired by four woman in particular concerning women’s rights, and thank them for the progress that we have seen because they took a stand. They are the famous five, or the valiant five. They started the Person’s Case fighting for women to be considered qualified persons eligible to sit in senate. After losing the case they appealed it and won. This was a huge step in women’s rights, and started us on the road to equality. (Wikipedia, 2012)

I have decided to write about racialized persons, woman in particular, and tuition concerns around post secondary education. I found the most interesting article, and think it will enlighten you on the struggles that woman today still face.

Did you know that woman and racialized persons pay more for education than the average white male? This is again another shocker for me. You don’t think of things in such depth until it directly affects you. After your post secondary is done you start paying tuition back plus interest.  Woman and other racialized people have a lower income which means it takes longer for them to pay back their loans unless they are from well off families. Woman only earn 70 cents on every dollar that a man makes. This makes their interest high on the pay back of the loan, because it will take longer for her to pay it back than him. How is it that no matter which way we turn men still has the better deal in society? Seems like our government should be paying more attention to these issues seeing as this is their future as well as ours. There are ways to change this social injustice, but yet our government refuses to put money into our education to make post secondary education available to everyone especially the racialized people, and the lower class. Our Canada needs to practice what it preaches. Equality among all people is what we are supposed to be about. (Lyder, 2012)

Kate

Works Cited

Lyder, R. (2012). The Peek-Fight for Equality, Down With Tuition Fees. The Peek , 52 (1), 1.

Wikipedia, t. f. (2012). Emily Murphy- Wikipedia, the free encyclopidea. Retrieved 12 11, 2012, from Emily Murphy-Wikipedia, the free encyclopidea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Murphy