Girls’ Education

A digital magazine by the organization TARSHI with the purposes of generating dialogue and creating and curating content on issues around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Global South.

A report on a program designed to help vulnerable girls in Zambia avoid early marriage, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy. As it was not impactful, it stresses the need to address underlying economic and social constraints.

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.

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 interventions.

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.

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.