Gender and education
- Challenges for Mayan girls' education
- This study looks at the various disadvantages Mayan girls face in attaining education in Guatemala. The authors recommend that in addition to poverty-reduction programmes, mechanisms to encourage poor families to start their children's schooling at age 7 may lead to fewer competing interests with regard to time allocation as children approach puberty and are compelled to assume adult work roles.
Latest Additions
- Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women in Indonesia
- ( G. Dunkley;C. Haddad / UNESCO Bangkok , 2008)
- In most impoverished communities, there has long been a heavy reliance on self-help mechanisms and micro-enterprise development (especially among women) in the informal economy for household and commu...
- How to promote gender equality through social, economic and cultural rights
- ( P. Eliadis;L. Farha;S. Aurora / Equitas- International Centre for Human Rights Education , 2008)
- Like all standards and aspirations, women's economic, social and cultural rights ultimately depend on the ability to enforce them.This handbook is intended as a specific tool for national human r...
- Gender, education and media – an advocacy guide
- ( Oxfam , 2008)
- Nationally, regionally and internationally millions of individuals and thousands of civil society groups and organisations are campaigning for quality education for all. This guide draws on learning f...
- Reducing violence against Ethiopian school girls
- ( United Nations Girls' Education Initiative , 2008)
- With a focus on Ethiopia, this paper identifies and analyses the types, prevalence, major causes and effects of violence against girls in schools. It also aims to assess the availability and effective...
- Participation rates of Indian girls at school
- ( M. Bandyopadhyay;R. Subrahmanian / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity , 2008)
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India accounts for 30 per cent of the world’s total illiterate population and around 70 per cent of these illiterates are women. This review paper draws on recent data to map the access and p...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- ( N. N. Nyawo;R. Sathiparsad;M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center , 2006)
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Gender is a culture-specific construct, and the unequal power balance in gender relations that favours males has been shown to be associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This qualitative stud...
- Examining the economic cost of failing to educate girls
- ( Plan International , 2008)
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Education is vital to the future prospects and development of children across the globe. Gaining a good education is at least as important for girls as it is for boys. This report presents a new an...
- Moving forward with gender equality challenges and opportunities
- ( K Mørck Jensen / Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs , 2008)
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This guide aims to provide useful context on gender equality as a priority of Danish development assistance. It offers strategic directions and presents good examples of how gender programming can ...
- Gender inequality in education
- ( Plan International , 2007)
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Gender discrimination has it’s most glaring reflection in the education arena particularly in South Asian countries. This publication clearly portrays the reality and reasons why nearly...
- Education, gender and religion in Bangladesh
- ( M. N. Asadullah;N. Chaudhury;A. Dar / Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford , 2006)
- This paper presents new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh. Specifically, it examines the non-random sorting ...
