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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 ...
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]
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When the problem of unqualified female teachers in girls' secondary education was addressed by a state teacher's seminary for women as well as state secondary education for girls, both of these were still gender segregated. [184] The French school system was not desegregated on the middle secondary education level until the 20th century.
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.
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After the 1926 International Conference the Baden-Powells were approached about setting up a formal association and in 1928 the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts was founded at the 5th International Conference held in Parád, Hungary. [2] Rose Kerr was Vice Chairman, later Commissioner for Tenderfoot Countries.