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
Let Girls Lead Guide to Girl-Centered Advocacy
An intensive curriculum that engages girls and their allies in strategic advocacy to improve girls’ lives around the world with workshops and an integrated emphasis on social justice values, a human rights framework, and a gender-focused perspective.
Girls' Education
Girls in STEM: The Importance of Role Models
An article from a Europe-wide study by Microsoft of girls and young women that found a clear link between role models and an increased passion for STEM subjects, with more interest in careers in these fields, and greater self-confidence.
Girls' Education
Advocating for Change for Adolescents! A Practical Toolkit for Young People to Advocate for Improved Adolescent Health and Well-being
A toolkit by young people for young people to guide the design, implementation, and monitoring of an effective national advocacy action roadmap to bring about positive policy-specific changes to improve the health and well-being of adolescents.
Girls' Education
General Versus Girl-Targeted Interventions: A False Dichotomy? A Response to Evans and Yuan
This paper provides a review of Evans and Yuan’s 2019 paper "What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls." It disagrees with their conclusion and recommends combining girl-targeted and general interven...
Girls' Education
A Year to Clean Five Schools of Sexism – Shouldn’t Others do the Same?
An article on a pilot program run in five London primary schools by a nonprofit, Lifting Limits, that provides teachers with the skills and resources to recognize and correct gender bias and to support students in challenging gender inequalities.
Girls' Education
Engaging Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality Through Education
An overview of a two-day workshop in Washington, D.C. on engaging men and boys to promote gender equality through education and the action steps that developed from it. Participants also discussed evidence-based programming for girls’ education.