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Girls are more likely to experience gender discrimination in the allocation of household chores, gender-based violence, early and forced marriage, and early and unintended pregnancy. As a result of the extra challenges caused by the pandemic, an additional 11 million girls and young women may never return to school.
Many girls and women cannot exercise their right to education due to gender inequality and discriminatory practices. Poverty, early marriage, and gender-based violence are just some of the reasons behind the high percentage of out-of-school and illiterate girls and women globally.
Teaching is increasingly a female-dominated profession. The share of women in the teaching force increased from 92% to 94% between 2000 and 2020 in pre-primary education and from 59% to 67% in primary education. But in sub- Saharan Africa, women make up only 32% of teachers in secondary education.
23 sty 2023 · GENEVA (23 January 2023) – 130 million girls are denied the human right to education around the world, UN experts* said today, calling on States to step up efforts for the realisation of this fundamental human right.
Worldwide, 119 million girls are out of school. Only 49 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. At the secondary level, the gap widens: 42 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in lower secondary education, and 24 per cent in upper secondary education. The reasons are many.
Among 56 countries with data for 2000–18, primary completion rates improved faster, on average, for girls (by 17 percentage points) than for boys (by 15 percentage points). In Burundi, Cambodia and Sierra Leone, completion rates for girls rose by more than 40 percentage points.
Between 2000 and 2018, the number of out-of-school girls of primary school age decreased globally by 44 per cent, from 57 million to 32 million. Boys saw a decrease globally of 37 per cent during this same period, from 42 million to 27 million.
