Gender and education
- 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 from two “Gender, Education a...
- 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 effectiveness of policies, rules and regula...
- Participation rates of Indian girls at school
- M. Bandyopadhyay; R. Subrahmanian / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
- 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 participation rates of girls relative ...
- Middle East Youth Initiative
- The initiative blends activities in an attempt to bridge the divide between thinkers and practitioners by utilising robust research as a foundation for effective policy and programs. The initiative has three complementary pillars: Research and Policy The initiateive aims to advance understanding of economic and social issues to promote solutions for the in...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- N. N. Nyawo; R. Sathiparsad; M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
- 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 study explored the views of female high s...
- Examining the economic cost of failing to educate girls
- Plan International, 2008
- 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 analysis of the economic cost of failin...
- Moving forward with gender equality challenges and opportunities
- K Mørck Jensen / Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Danida, Denmark, 2008
- 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 achieve results on the ground. Divide...
- Gender inequality in education
- Plan International, 2007
- 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 16 million girls are not going to sc...
- 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 of children into madrasas (Islamic...
- Access to private cable television promotes female autonomy and welfare in India
- R. Jensen; E. Oster / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2007
- 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 in women's status. It argues that...
- 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 from two “Gender, Education a...
- 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 effectiveness of policies, rules and regula...
- Participation rates of Indian girls at school
- M. Bandyopadhyay; R. Subrahmanian / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
- 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 participation rates of girls relative ...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- N. N. Nyawo; R. Sathiparsad; M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
- 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 study explored the views of female high s...
- Examining the economic cost of failing to educate girls
- Plan International, 2008
- 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 analysis of the economic cost of failin...
- Moving forward with gender equality challenges and opportunities
- K Mørck Jensen / Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Danida, Denmark, 2008
- 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 achieve results on the ground. Divide...
- Gender inequality in education
- Plan International, 2007
- 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 16 million girls are not going to sc...
- 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 of children into madrasas (Islamic...
- Access to private cable television promotes female autonomy and welfare in India
- R. Jensen; E. Oster / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2007
- 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 in women's status. It argues that...
- 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 of secondary school in Cambodia. ...
- Middle East Youth Initiative
- The initiative blends activities in an attempt to bridge the divide between thinkers and practitioners by utilising robust research as a foundation for effective policy and programs. The initiative has three complementary pillars: Research and Policy The initiateive aims to advance understanding of economic and social issues to promote solutions for the in...
