PHA-Exchange> Gender and Education for All - THE LEAP TO EQUALITY

[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 


Gender and Education for All - THE LEAP TO EQUALITY
Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2003/4



UNESCO, November 2003



Summary of Report:

English at: http://www.unesco.org/education/efa_report/2003_pdf/summary_en.pdf 

Spanish at: http://portal.unesco.org/education/TEMPLATE/c_153/index_es.html 



French at: http://portal.unesco.org/education/TEMPLATE/c_153/index_fr.html 



"........Girls continue to suffer from discrimination in access to schooling in most developing countries, according to a report issued today by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).



The report found that in 54 countries, many across sub-Saharan Africa, gender parity in schools remains a long way off. In China, boys will outnumber girls in secondary schools for many more years. In at least 12 countries, girls' enrolment at school is less than three-quarters that of boys.



The report found that the number of girls attending school rose faster than that of boys in the decade to 2000 (the gender parity index increased from 0.89 to 0.93). In some countries the results were in favour of girls as the report found many boys do not finish their secondary education.



Amongst the poorest performers in terms of girls' access to primary school, according to the Report, are Chad with a GPI of 0.63, Yemen (0.63), Guinea-Bissau (0.67), Benin (0.68), Niger (0.68), Ethiopia (0.69), Central African Republic (0.69), Burkina Faso (0.71), Guinea (0.72), Mali (0.72), Liberia (0.73), and Pakistan (0.74), (see table 5 in the Statistical Annex of the Report). Girls' enrolment in these countries is only three quarters that of boys. India, with a GPI of 0.83 at primary level, is only slightly ahead. 


While the situation globally leaves girls at a disadvantage, the Report points out that because too many boys do not finish secondary education, the balance has tipped in favour of girls at this level in several countries including Bangladesh (1.05), Denmark (1.05), Mexico (1.05), New Zealand (1.06), Bahrain (1.07), Iceland (1.07) Russian Federation (1.07), Trinidad and Tobago (1.07) Colombia (1.10), Philippines (1.10), Malaysia (1.11), United Arab Emirates (1.12), United Kingdom (1.17), Suriname (1.18) and Sweden (1.26) (see table 7 in the Statistical Annex of the Report)...."



  

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