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Promoting Girls' Education for Equality

This document discusses the importance of girls' education and some key challenges. It notes that around 129 million girls are out of school globally and gender parity decreases with each level of education. The reasons girls lack access to education vary but include poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, and schools not meeting girls' safety, hygiene or sanitation needs. UNICEF works to promote girls' education by tackling discriminatory gender norms, ensuring education budgets and policies prioritize gender equality, eliminating gender gaps in learning, and addressing other obstacles like distance-related barriers and menstrual hygiene management.

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Promoting Girls' Education for Equality

This document discusses the importance of girls' education and some key challenges. It notes that around 129 million girls are out of school globally and gender parity decreases with each level of education. The reasons girls lack access to education vary but include poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, and schools not meeting girls' safety, hygiene or sanitation needs. UNICEF works to promote girls' education by tackling discriminatory gender norms, ensuring education budgets and policies prioritize gender equality, eliminating gender gaps in learning, and addressing other obstacles like distance-related barriers and menstrual hygiene management.

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Why focus on girls’ education prior to the discussion

of the common education system?


• Investing in girls’ education transforms communities, countries,
and the entire world. Girls who receive an education are less likely
to marry young and more likely to lead healthy, productive lives.
They earn higher incomes, participate in the decisions that most
affect them, and build better futures for themselves and their
families.
• Girls’ education strengthens economies and reduces inequality. It
contributes to more stable, resilient societies that give all
individuals – including boys and men – the opportunity to fulfill
their potential.
• But education for girls is about more than access to school. It’s also
about girls feeling safe in classrooms and supported in the subjects
and careers they choose to pursue – including those in which they
are often under-represented.

CURRENT SCENARIO OF GIRLS IN THE EDUCATION


SECTOR-
• Around the world, 129 million girls are out of school, including 32
million of primary school age, 30 million of lower-secondary
school age, and 67 million of upper-secondary school age. In
countries affected by conflict, girls are more than twice as likely to
be out of school than girls living in non-affected countries.
• Only 49 percent of countries have achieved gender parity in
primary education. At the secondary level, the gap widens: 42
percent of countries have achieved gender parity in lower
secondary education, and 24 percent in upper secondary
education.
• The reasons are many. Barriers to girls’ education – like poverty,
child marriage, and gender-based violence – vary among countries
and communities. Poor families often favor boys when investing in
education.
• In some places, schools do not meet the safety, hygiene, or
sanitation needs of girls. In others, teaching practices are not
gender-responsive and result in gender gaps in learning and skills
development.

UNICEF’s work to promote girls’ education

• Tackles discriminatory gender norms and harmful practices


that deny girls access to school and quality learning.
• Supports Governments to ensure that budgets are gender-
responsive and that national education plans and policies
prioritize gender equality.
• Helps schools and Governments use assessment data to
eliminate gender gaps in learning.
• Promotes social protection measures, including cash
transfers, to improve girls’ transition to and retention in
secondary school.
• Focuses teacher training and professional development on
gender-responsive pedagogies.
• Removes gender stereotypes from learning materials.
• Addresses other obstacles, like distance-related barriers to
education, re-entry policies for young mothers, and
menstrual hygiene management in schools.

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