Girls’ Education

This article highlights recent data showing that while gains have been made in girls' school enrollment in India since a 2009 law, girls are still not attending as they should due to highly unequal expectations around household and agricultural work.

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.

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 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.

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 key document from the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report that discusses the gender dimensions and implications of migration.

A 10-week curriculum to support girl leaders and their allies to identify the issues that impact girls most in their communities, develop strategies to amplify their voices, launch girl-led advocacy campaigns, and effectively educate decisionmakers.

A guidance note by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) that provides strategies on delivering education in a gender-responsive manner as part of an emergency preparedness, response, or recovery situation.