Girls’ Education

An overview of the compounding barriers that girls with disabilities experience at family, societal, and institutional levels, leading to a trajectory of marginalization. It shares resources providing a more holistic approach to inclusive education.

A guide for monitoring and evaluation practitioners, researchers, and students who are interested in learning how to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in an impact evaluation. It has examples of survey questions and non-survey instruments.

This study is part of a series by the World Bank on the potential cost of not educating girls globally. It documents the potential impacts in six domains like how low educational attainment worsens expected earnings in adulthood and health outcomes.

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 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.

An article debunking myths that boys and girls start out with different cognitive abilities in mathematics. The finding challenges the idea that more boys end up in STEM fields because they are inherently better at the sort of thinking they require.