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More than 62 million girls around the world had no access to education, as of c. 2014, according to USAID. [4] Worldwide and collectively, girls ages 5 to 14 spend more than 160 million hours more on household chores than boys of the same age do. [5] Globally, one in four girls are married before age 18. [6]
Educate Girls is a nonprofit organization that promotes and supports girls' education in the remotest and rural and educationally backward part of India. [8] [9] It works in partnership with the Government of India and operates in 18,000 villages of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and engages with a huge base of community volunteers and in the process helps to identify, enroll ...
The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) is an initiative launched by the United Nations in 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar at the primary school Ndiarème B. It aims to reduce the gap in schooling for girls and to give girls equal access to all levels of education.
The child sex ratio in India had been going down at an alarming rate. In the population census of 2011, the child sex ratio in India was 919 females of girls aged 0 to 6 years old. [1] During the 2014 International Day of the Girl Child, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the public to help end sexism against girls in India. [4] The launch ...
[1] [2] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education. The education of women and girls is important for the alleviation of poverty. [3] Broader related topics include single-sex education and religious education for women, in which education is divided along gender ...
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It was the first WAGGGS World Conference to be held in the UK since 1975. [13] The theme of the conference was "100 years changing lives". [14] UN Women Deputy Director and Assistant Secretary-General, Lakshmi Puri, delivered the keynote address on the first day of the conference, focusing on issues including gender equality and domestic ...
Gender equality in education is a basic right and a prerequisite to build inclusive societies. While progress has been made globally, large gender gaps still exist in education in many settings. Globally, 122 million girls and 128 million boys are out of school. Women still account for almost two-thirds of all adults unable to read. [7]