Category Archives: Equity
The poorest young women have spent less than a year in school in the bottom ten countries
It’s International Women’s Day this week. As people in different cities rally for gender equality, not enough changes are being made to help the poorest girls pick themselves up from the bottom of the education ladder in many parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, parity, Uncategorized
Tagged equality, female education, Gender, Pakistan, SDGs, somalia, Sudan, United Nations
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We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools
Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading
Out of date textbooks put sustainable development at risk.
Today, we’ve launched a new study into secondary school textbooks around the world, continuing our focus on the content of education, which we began in the 2016 GEM Report with a focus on curricula. Our focus on textbooks comes from … Continue reading
Target 4.5 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on equity in education?
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations While there is progress toward monitoring … Continue reading
Vivian Onano: We each have a role to play in achieving gender equality
By Vivian Onano, for International Day of the Girl Child My name is Vivian Onano, partnerships Manager at SEED Project, Global Youth Ambassador at WaterAid and Women Deliver Young Leader. I was honored and delighted to be a part of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 gender review, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged equality, equity, Gender
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The links between education, violence, and wellbeing
Living a life free from violence is a basic human right enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and is central to the Sustainable Development Goals. In the last of three blogs about the new GEM Report Gender Review, … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Health, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive health, Sexual violence, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged equality, Gender, violence
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Education leading for gender equality
In the second of three blogs marking the launch of the new 2016 GEM Report Gender Review, we look at the relationship between education, leadership, gender equality, and participation in public and private spheres. Until women and men have equal … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Health, Uncategorized
Tagged equality, equity, Gender, leadership
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