Cin, Firdevs Melis2020-11-212020-11-2120172524-6445https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39104-5_6https://hdl.handle.net/11467/3856This chapter focuses on the women’s experiences and insights regarding their educational experiences to explore how schooling and education, as a foundational capacity according to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, enabled the development of further capabilities and sufficient agency for the women to live lives that they have reason to value and transform existing gender inequalities. The chapter focuses on a wide range of themes related to the school environment, which involves school infrastructure, relations in the school, learning environment, the surroundings of the school, and curriculum and syllabus. This exploration also includes the women’s experiences in higher education. This chapter shows that, contrary to what the women have experienced in the private sphere, their experiences in education have been transformative in providing them with real opportunities to develop their capacities for choosing and enacting valued ways of being and doing. However, at the same time, education is revealed to have enacted certain gender norms through education processes, which reproduced gender inequalities for the women and put them in a disadvantaged position in comparison to men. © 2017, The Author(s).eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEconomic IndependenceGender InequalityGender NormGender RelationMale CandidateBook Chapter121137N/AWOS:000417091400006N/A2-s2.0-8506581898910.1007/978-3-319-39104-5_6