This cartogram represents the Girls Who are Not in Primary School across the world. I selected this one, because my major is elementary education and I was interested to see what education opportunities were available to students across the globe. This map indicated that in North and South America and Western Europe girls have almost equal opportunities to attend primary school. However, in the Middle East, Middle and Northern Africa, and in parts of Eastern Europe, girls do not have the opportunity to attend primary school. This indicates a large cultural split in the world and a difference in gender roles between these two groups of continents. One sees that at least at the primary school age, it is important for both boys and girls to learn academic subjects, where as the other must feel that academic learning is not necessary for girls at all.
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