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Providing education to girls from remote and rural areas
UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2005This policy brief documents how boarding schools have been used in order to ensure access to education for children who might otherwise be deprived of it. The brief discusses both advantages and disadvantages of this educational strategy.DocumentA scorecard on gender equality and girls' education in Asia 1990-2000
UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004This briefing reports on results derived from applying a methodology for measuring gender equality in schooling and education to Asian countries. The methodology takes some ideas of measurement associated with Amartya Sen's capability approach and utilises these in relation to existing data sets regarding girls' access to and continuation in school, as well as to their survival into adult life.DocumentGender equality and education in South Africa: measurements, scores and strategies
Institute of Education, University of London, 2004This paper discusses methodology issues for measuring gender equality and inequality in South Africa. The author argues that in order to establish a publicly accountable means of assessing levels of gender equality, a complex method is needed.The analysis is structured in three parts.DocumentGender and access in commonwealth higher education
Education Sector, UNESCO, 2004This paper, presented at the 2004 Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy, is part of a larger research programme examining interventions for gender equity in relation to access, staff development and curriculum transformation in Uganda, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and South Africa.DocumentGender and disciplinary choices: women in higher education in India
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2004This paper focuses on the access and participation of women students in higher education (public and private institutions) in India in the pre and post economic liberalisation phase.DocumentEconomic, social and cultural rights: the right to education
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2005The present report is an overview of the activities and issues the Special Rapporteur plans for the Commission on Human Rights aims to carry out and consider during his mandate.Some of the activities the Special Rapporteur plans to carry out includes:continue strengthening the human rights dimension of education by encouraging the shift from education policies that address education asDocumentWhere has all the bias gone?: detecting gender bias in the household allocation of educational expenditure in India
Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2003This paper seeks to find explanations for the failure of the household consumption based (Engel curve) methodology in detecting gender bias even where it exists.DocumentPoverty and children's schooling in urban and rural Senegal
Population Council, USA, 2005This paper examines the effects of living-standards and relative poverty on children’s schooling in urban and rural areas of Senegal.Findings include:in Senegal’s urban areas, living standards exert substantial influence on three measures of schooling: whether a child has ever attended school; whether he or she has completed at least four grades of primary school; and whether he or sheDocumentComing to terms with sexual harassment in Ghana
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2004Scholars and the general public have not paid much attention to non-rape forms of sex discrimination, such as sexual harassment. The concept is seen to suffer from ambiguity, and is often confused with courting or playful flirting. When it finally did receive attention sexual harassment was seen almost exclusively as a workplace phenomenon.