Girls’ Education
Resources
Everyone has a role to play in supporting girls to become empowered, access education for better life outcomes, and thrive. Teach For All is committed to supporting the global network to identify and address the barriers that keep girls from learning and fulfilling their potential through our Girls’ Education initiative. Learn more about gender equity, the issues facing girls around the world, and more in this curated library of resources:
Girls' Education
We Can’t Measure Women’s Empowerment the Same Way Everywhere—But Should We Try?
An article describing the challenges of measuring the empowerment of women to evaluate the impact of programs, such as the limitations of standardized questions, and recommended solutions.
Girls' Education
Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Gender Report - Building Bridges for Gender Equality
This report invites readers to explore all the factors that perpetuate gender inequalities in schools. It provides a study of national education plans and tools to enable governments to analyze the situation in their own countries.
Girls' Education
Gender-Sensitive Pedagogy: The Bridge to Girls’ Quality Education in Uganda
An informative brief looking at how policies that reference gender-sensitive pedagogy are translating into Ugandan classrooms. It reflects on findings of a survey conducted with 70 secondary teachers and 109 students in central and eastern Uganda.
Girls' Education
Barriers to STEM Education for Rural Girls: A Missing Link to Innovation for a Better Bangladesh
This policy paper unveils the barriers to educational opportunities for rural girls in Bangladesh, focusing on STEM education. It uses a survey of 500 rural secondary-level schoolgirls, 100 parents, and 75 teachers from 30 rural schools in Gazipur.
Girls' Education
Building Resilience and Resistance to Child, Early, and Forced Marriage Through Acquiring Skills
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.