Some Yi girls in remote mountainous areas are losing schooling opportunities. For some reason, many families are so poor that the girls had to quit their schooling to help their parents raise the livestock and have an early arranged marriage. The patriarchal social environment has undermined the Yi girls’ rights to school education. The research focuses on how the Yi girls were marginalized by the patriarchy that dominated the Yi girls’ fate. It will benefit from setting an appropriate report agenda for them and creating a proper media environment to gain equal rights to receive an education. There is a long way to mobilize families, ethnic groups, and communities to fully value the Yi girls’ right to have quality education. A sound environment will benefit more Yi girls and raise awareness of women’s rights. The media’s mission is to defend the education rights of the Yi girls to help them fulfill their potential in their youth and future. The educational inequalities research would benefit from engaging with sociological concerns, theories, and concepts such as gender and socioeconomic class. How media influences the public opinion of the girls’ right to school could contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the rationale of the educational inequalities.
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