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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- Exploring the drop-out rate of young girls from senior edcation in Malawi
- 2004
- The objective of this paper is to assess the performance and responsiveness of the selected interventions towards Malawi attainment of Accelerated Girls' Education as stipulated in Unicef's Medium Ter...
- Creating a conducive learning environment for girls in schools: a trainers’ manual for preventing sexualised violence against girls in schools
- Action For Development, 2010
- Widespread violations are being committed against female students in Ugandan schools (including rape, defilement and sexual harassment); yet these cases often go unreported. This is a step-by-step tea...
- The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
- R Hausmann;L Tyson;S Zahidi / World Economic Forum, 2010
- The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight t...
- Thematic Paper on MDG3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
- United Nations Development Group , 2010
- In 2000, the UN system drew up eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to provide a set of benchmarks to measure progress towards the eradication of global poverty. MDG 3, to promote gender equal...
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on gender inequalites in primary education in Uganda
- D. M. Kakuru / Wageningen University, Netherlands, 2006
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- Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women in Indonesia
- G. Dunkley;C. Haddad (ed) / 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
- 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...
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