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Acitivity 01
Acitivity 01
2. Cite gender issues pertaining to education in earliest times, study and discuss whether
these issues are treated with the GAD program we have.
One of the gender issues before is the right of women to have education. In China
19th century women are said to be lack of knowledge and not deserve to get
attention. With the arrival of Christian missionaries from Britain and US. They
give the rights to women to have formal education. One of the culture in China
that men and women should not be near each other, women are reluctant to be
treated by male doctors. A medical missionary name Mary H. Fulton was sent by
Foreign Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church (USA). She founded the first
School of medicine in China. It leads to the rights of women to be Educated. One
of the GAD programs were related to this issue is the right of women to take
courses that usually men do. What can men do also women can make.