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Many reasons exist for why formal education for females is unavailable to so many, including cultural reasons. For example, some believe that a woman's education will get in the way of her duties as a wife and a mother. In some places in Africa where women marry at age 12 or 13, education hinders a young woman's development. [62]
Education in Nauru is compulsory for children between the ages of 5 and 16. There are eleven schools in Nauru, including three primary schools and two secondary schools (Nauru College and Nauru Secondary School). There is an Able/Disable Centre for children with special needs. [5] Education at these schools is free.
Nauru became a member of the United Nations on 14 September 1999. [2] Of the nine core human rights treaties Nauru has ratified or acceded to four of them- the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (), the Convention Against Torture (),and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ().
Reuben Kun, who wrote an article about Nauru's university system, stated that in that period there was an unanticipated increase in the number of students at the school. [5] The school had classes teaching Nauruan circa the 1960s and 1970s. [6] In 2013 it became a Queensland Recognised School. [4] Nauru Secondary has a library. [7]
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The Girls' School Committee of 1866 organized the regulation of girls' schools and female education in Sweden: from 1870, some girls' schools were given the right to offer the Gymnasium level to their students, and from 1874, those girls' schools which met the demands were given governmental support and some were given the right to administer ...
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Analysts believe that women's inability to accumulate wealth has allowed for gender inequality to persist on the continent. According to the World Bank, 37% of women in Sub-Sahara Africa have a bank account, compared to 48% of men. [47] These percentages are even lower for women in North Africa where two-thirds of the population remains unbanked.