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.
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- 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 ...
- Access to private cable television promotes female autonomy and welfare in India
- ( R. Jensen;E. Oster / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2007)
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This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on gender attitudes in rural India. It finds that the introduction of cable television is associated with improvements i...
- The positive impact of a scholarship programme on school enrolment for girls in Cambodia
- ( D. Filmer;N. Schady / World Bank Publications , 2006)
- This paper evaluates the impact of a Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) programme that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year...
- Is universal primary and secondary education within the 21st century achievable?
- ( M.A. Lewis;M.E. Lockheed / IMF Publications , 2007)
- This paper discusses the gap between boys and girls attending school. It specifically looks at reasons why numbers of girls excluded from education are still high in spite of recent convergence betwee...
- Does female autonomy reduce education gaps in Pakistan?
- ( Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty , 2007)
- This study examines whether improving female autonomy in Pakistan has consequences for child education and whether female-heads are more equalising in their educational expenditure allocations than ma...
- Can education partnerships promote equal opportunities for girls?
- ( United Nations Girls' Education Initiative , 2007)
- This document looks at education partnerships as a way of empowering girls and promoting equal opportunities. It discuses seven case studies from East Asia on programmes addressing the educational nee...
- Teacher absence a factor in access to education
- ( S. Ghuman;C. B. Lloyd / Population Council, USA , 2007)
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School access can be determined not only by physical proximity of schools but also by other "barriers to use". This paper argues that teacher absence creates additional “barriers to...
- DFID’s goals for promoting gender equality in education
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
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This fact sheet sets out the goals and strategies of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) for achieving gender equality in education.
It provides an overview o... - Case studies of successful efforts to raise boys’ education levels in Australia, Jamaica, Lesotho and Samoa
- ( J. Jha; F. Kelleher / Commonwealth of Learning , 2006)
- What are the causes of the growing phenomenon of boys’ underachievement and poor attendance at school? And what are the solutions? This study investigates these questions in light of experiences of th...
- How can girls be protected from abuse? Contributions from an international online discussion
- ( C. Schuepp / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006)
- This report presents an overview of a four-week online discussion on the rights of the girl child, conducted in 2006, drawing heavily on direct quotes from participants’ contributions. The discussion ...
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