Analyzing the Gender Disparity in Education between Developed and Developing Countries Rahul Gautam, Alexander Reining, Krystopher Holasek

Even​ ​with​ ​all​ ​the​ ​progress​ ​women​ ​have​ ​made​ ​in​ ​the​ ​modern​ ​era,​ ​we​ ​wanted​ ​to​ ​see​ ​how​ ​gender inequality​ ​persisted​ ​in​ ​the​ ​educational​ ​sphere,​ ​particularly​ ​when​ ​categorizing​ ​nations​ ​by​ ​development.​ ​To do​ ​this,​ ​we​ ​obtained​ ​data​ ​on​ ​poverty,​ ​literacy​ ​rates​ ​and​ ​GNI​ ​per​ ​capita​ ​and​ ​analyzed​ ​the​ ​correlation​ ​with the​ ​expected​ ​level​ ​of​ ​education​ ​for​ ​women​ ​in​ ​one​ ​hundred​ ​different​ ​countries.​ ​What​ ​we​ ​found​ ​confirmed our​ ​suspicions:​ ​expected​ ​education​ ​levels​ ​were​ ​positively​ ​correlated​ ​with​ ​GNI​ ​per​ ​capita​ ​and​ ​literacy​ ​rates while​ ​showing​ ​a​ ​negative​ ​correlation​ ​with​ ​poverty​ ​rates.