Girls’ Education

This policy paper focuses on the less recognized effects of gender norms on boys’ schooling, particularly at secondary level and amongst those from the poorest families. It urges the need to address boys’ disadvantage and disengagement in education.

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.

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.

An article about the UNGEI webinar on measuring gender attitudes, focusing on pilot projects in Sierra Leone and Cote D’Ivoire with Save the Children’s Jane Leer and a project in Haryana state, India with the CEO of Breakthrough, Sohini Bhattacharya.

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.

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.