Category Archives: Gender

Hidden figures: showing the importance of women in science

Posted on 10 February 2017 by GEM Report

Tomorrow is the second year of celebrating the new UN Day on Girls and Women in Science. This subject seems to be picking up steam. It has even hit the big time – featuring in a blockbuster Hollywood film, Hidden Figures, about … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, maths, science, STEM | 3 Comments

Education – know your rights

Posted on 6 February 2017 by GEM Report

Today is the international day of zero tolerance to female genital mutilation (FGM). Globally, it is estimated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM. If current trends continue, 15 million additional … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 gender review, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, education, female education, fgm, gender. equality | Leave a comment

Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Posted on 19 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at the positive example Rwanda sets in promoting gender equality through its textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, gender. equality, learning, rwanda, textbooks | 7 Comments

Let’s decide how to monitor school-related violence

Posted on 18 January 2017 by GEM Report

Today, a large symposium is opening in South Korea on School Violence and Bullying: From Evidence to Action, with more than 250 participants from 70 countries coming together to discuss how to combat the issue. A new Global Status Report … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, monitoring, school violence, SRGBV, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged bullying, school violence, SRGBV, Target 4.a, violence | Leave a comment

We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools

Posted on 16 January 2017 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged books, equality, Gender, teaching, textbooks | 1 Comment

Viet Nam: Using Textbooks and Curricula for Gender Equality

Posted on 19 December 2016 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how recent textbook reforms in Viet Nam have worked to improve gender equality. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Equality, Gender, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Between the Lines Blog Series, curriculum, Gender, target 4.7, textbooks, viet nam | 4 Comments

Out of date textbooks put sustainable development at risk.

Posted on 15 December 2016 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, curriculum, Developed countries, Developing countries, Environment, Equity, Gender, Human rights, immigration, integrated development, Latin America, Literacy, parity, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.7 | 5 Comments

School-related gender-based violence must be eliminated

Posted on 25 November 2016 by GEM Report

Today, November 25, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. The campaign aims to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, SRGBV, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged Gender, school violence, SRGBV, Target 4.a | 4 Comments

COP22: Women, climate change and disaster resilience

Posted on 16 November 2016 by GEM Report

On Monday during the high-level event on Education Day at COP22 the GEM Report gave a keynote presentation on the important role that education plays in improving environmental knowledge and changing behavior. Yesterday was Gender Day at COP22, showing how important gender equality … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 gender review, Climate change, Disaster preparedness, Environment, Gender, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged climate change, cop22, Gender, sustainable development | 2 Comments

Target 4.4 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on skills for work?

Posted on 20 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship Global monitoring of skills for decent work is likely to prove elusive because of … Continue reading →