Girls’ Education

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.

A study on the decision (to keep or terminate) factors and experiences surrounding adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, an urban slum in Accra, Ghana. The main role players in decision making included family, friends, school teachers and the partner.

This podcast discusses why boys lag behind girls academically across contexts, and how it's rooted in some of the same gender norms that disadvantage girls in other measures of equity.

An article on the need for gender sensitive sanitation, including clean, safe, and separate toilets with access to water and garbage disposal. It highlights the lack of attention and access to quality menstrual hygiene management (MHM) in schools.

A helpful list of statistics by Catalyst related to women's attainment and achievement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.

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.