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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.
Worldwide, 16% of countries still do not guarantee the right to education in their Constitution or laws. Among the 84% of countries that legally protect the right to education, 57% explicitly guarantee it without discrimination based on sex and/or gender.
23 lip 2022 · Gender parity has been the main metric used to assess levels of gender inequalities in education for nearly three decades. 2 It is used in the indicators for the targets for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) associated with education – SDG4 – and in national Education Sector Plans (ESPs).
Phone surveys of 19-year-olds during the pandemic showed that 70% of young women in Ethiopia but 35% of young men spent more time than before the pandemic doing household chores, while 42% of young women in Peru but 26% of young men spent more time looking after children (Ford, 2021).
23 sty 2023 · All States have made commitments to realise the right to education for all, but fewer than half of the world’s countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. Denying girls and other vulnerable groups their fundamental right to education is discrimination at its most debilitating.
Despite evidence demonstrating how central girls’ learning is to development, gender disparities in education persist. Around the world, 119 million girls are out of school, including 34 million of primary school age, 28 million of lower-secondary school age, and 58 million of upper-secondary school age.
10 mar 2017 · According to UIS data, 15 million girls roughly between the ages of 6 and 10 will never set foot in a classroom compared to about 10 million boys if current trends continue. The eAtlas shows the trouble spots where girls struggle to start school.
