Girls’ Education

An article that shares the stories of girls living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.

This report is on gender-transformative work in politically and culturally conservative contexts. It explores how addressing child, early, and forced marriage and unions advances girls’ and women’s sexual agency, bodily autonomy, freedom and dignity.

An article on a pilot program run in five London primary schools by a nonprofit, Lifting Limits, that provides teachers with the skills and resources to recognize and correct gender bias and to support students in challenging gender inequalities.

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.

A deep dive into the Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Data to examine gender gaps in education and determine where more focus should be given in research, policy, and programmatic efforts to address gender inequality.

A study on the decision (to keep or terminate) factors and experiences surrounding adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, an urban slum in Accra, Ghana. The main role players in decision making included family, friends, school teachers and the partner.

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.