Gender & education

Lack of education is a major barrier to development. Education for women and girls still lags behind and creates barriers to women's empowerment and economic and political participation.The positive effect of educating girls is illustrated by the following film:

The Girl Effect

Tool: Gender analysis in education

In order to assess education programs and projects from a gender perspective a gender analysis in education has been developed. This tool will be further developed, so please share your ideas.

Interesting links

Links from the education wiki

Practising Gender Analysis in Education

A downloadable book publication by Oxfam.

Gender: access and inclusion

This publication gives insight in gender issues in education with specific attention for situations of emergencies and reconstruction.

Gender and girls' education

Links from the education wiki