Girls’ Education

This study is part of a series by the World Bank on the potential cost of not educating girls globally. It documents the potential impacts in six domains like how low educational attainment worsens expected earnings in adulthood and health outcomes.

An article debunking myths that boys and girls start out with different cognitive abilities in mathematics. The finding challenges the idea that more boys end up in STEM fields because they are inherently better at the sort of thinking they require.

This video clip features Sunita Waiba of Nepal speaking about her lived experiences with gender inequality in her community. Watch a powerful example of student voice, leadership, and activism.

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

A study on how India is playing a leading role in its use of innovative financing for development with impact bonds, an outcome-based financing structure. It outlines key lessons to be drawn for their application to education.

An article that highlights the Girl-talk-Girl program by the feminist organization Footage that engages young women worldwide in collaborative media arts activism against gender-based violence. Through storytelling, they examine GBV in their lives.

This report describes how the factors of education, the labor market, and social norms underlie why girls in Nepal are not able to leverage technical and vocational education and training (TVET) to their advantage and provides policy recommendations.