Has equality for woman and girls gotten better??

Since the olden day's equality for men and woman have definitely grown and gotten better but girls seem like they are still less equal then boys.  My grandmother wasn't allowed to go to school when she was supposed to be in elementary school because she had to stay home and take care of house chores. The society throughout the world has grown as a whole but I read that still today there are girls that are not able to go to school.

"The word gender describes the socially-constructed roles and responsibilities that societies consider appropriate for men and women."  This is so true because when someone talks about a woman we tend to put women and our responsibilities of being a stay at home mom, maid service to the house, and a cook. My fiancé likes to joke to me about how I should stay home and take care of our son and finish my degree, because as a man he would rather not have me work.  I love that I can go to work and attend school. 
My parents pushed me and my sister in school and they may have not always had the money for extra curricular actives they would try really hard to give us what they could.  Girls today are missing out from different school activities or even just school all together because families are worrying about their son's first. According to a peace corps website if a girl was to go to school there is a big chance she will hold off marriage and starting a family.

In school I knew of a girl who had to drop out of high school to help her family.  Her father became very ill and her mother had to pick up two jobs.  Her brother was in the running for a football scholarship so instead of him dropping out she drop out to stay at home and help her mom around the house while she was at work and took of her younger sibling.  She wasn't in the running for a scholarship for college but due to her brother in the running he could have go to school for free, she gave up her education so one of them could still go to college. 
Girls today have a better chance of going to school in the Unites States but in different countries it is harder for the girls to go to school.  The rural poor areas are where girls aren't always allowed to go to school which in the future causes more problems for them.  For a long time it was the governments fault that girls weren't allowed to go to school but now in most places it is due to the parents not allowing their daughters to go to school.  Some parents believe in just homeschooling but in some countries they need their daughters to stay home and take care of the house hold and some just don't want their daughters to be taught by men.  At least these days girls are allowed to get a better education.


http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/stories/stories.cfm?psid=2162