Girls’ Education

A policy brief on select school-based interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) or improve attitudes that perpetuate VAWG. It focuses on intimate partner violence, dating violence, and non-partner sexual assault.

A report by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization that calls for equipping girls with the knowledge and skills needed to overcome barriers that prevent them from fully participating in the workforce and becoming economically empowered.

An overview of the Gang of Stars (Taaron Ki Toli) youth-club based program creating awareness about gender issues among secondary school students. It evaluates the results of the intervention with 14,000 adolescents in 300 schools in Haryana, India.

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.

A collection of recently published articles and blogs about girls and women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) by the International Journal of STEM Education.

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 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.

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