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Gender Equality in Education

Worldwide, 60 million girls remain out of school.

Education is universally acknowledged to benefit individuals and promote national development. Education expands the opportunities and life choices for both boys and girls. Worldwide, however, 60 million girls remain out of school.

USAID has been working to close the gap between boys and girls by assessing the degree of educational disadvantage that girls face, identifying gender-related obstacles and implementing remedies to remove and overcome them.

An effective strategy for educating girls needs to include attention to access and enrollment, as well as to quality and achievement. Girls in developing countries often come up against teaching practices, textbooks and other learning materials in schools that promote gender stereotypes that are detrimental to their academic achievement.

Unsafe school environments also pose challenges to girls to complete their education.

Keeping girls in school requires that parents, community members, educators, policymakers, and donors look beyond enrollment and address larger, contextual issues, such as the impact that inequities between girls and boys has on educational quality.

The Office of Women in Development's approach to gender equality in education includes:

• Testing innovative pilot programs to reduce school-related gender-based violence;
• Developing practical tools for USAID staff and implementing partners to design, implement and evaluate education programs that address equitable access and quality with a gender perspective; and
• Bringing attention to the norms and behaviors that perpetuate inequalities in schools and the effect gender dynamics have on educational success or failure for both girls and boys.

Current Activities

Safe Schools Program
EQUATE: Achieving Equality in Education

Please see the Activity Archives for a list of completed Education activities.

Key Publications

EQUATE Technical Briefs: Gender, Education, and HIV/AIDS (09/20/2007 PDF)

Gender Equality in Education: a Dynamic Framework (9/20/2007 PDF)

Glossary of Gender Terms (9/20/2007 PDF)

Training Guide: Continuum of Approaches for Achieving Gender Integration in Programming: A Decision-Making Tool for Education Officers; 1/07 [PDF 2.8MB]

The Safe Schools Program: Quantitative Research Instrument to Measure School-Related Gender-Based Violence ; 12/06 [PDF, 1.39MB]

Unsafe Schools: A Literature Review of School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries; 09/03 [PDF,444kb]

Full List of Publications

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