Girls’ Education

A collection of recently published articles and blogs about girls and women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) by the International Journal of STEM Education.

This report describes how the factors of education, the labor market, and social norms underlie why girls in Nepal are not able to leverage technical and vocational education and training (TVET) to their advantage and provides policy recommendations.

A policy brief on select school-based interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) or improve attitudes that perpetuate VAWG. It focuses on intimate partner violence, dating violence, and non-partner sexual assault.

Research conducted in Northern Nigeria that found that acquiring vocational skills alone was not enough to empower girls or form the basis of an alternative to early marriage. It recommends a holistic program incorporating life skills and counseling.

An evaluation of a multifaceted policy intervention in Uganda that effectively supported adolescent women's empowerment over a four-year horizon.

An article on the lifelong negative association between giving birth before age 18 and a woman’s economic empowerment. It discusses how childbearing before 18 is widespread and how in many countries, women do not have control over their own earnings.