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Education has unrivalled power to reduce extreme poverty and boost wider development goals, according to highlights pre-released from Unesco's next Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The highlights provide fresh proof that investing in education, especially for girls, alleviates extreme poverty through securing substantial benefits for health and productivity, as well as democratic participation and women's empowerment.
Pauline Rose, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, Unesco, said: "It is a crime that there are over a million girls still out of school in India. On October 11, more than any other day, I hope the government recognises the importance of investing in education for these children. Not only is investing in girls' education a moral obligation, but it is also essential if the country wants to break free of its high child and maternal mortality rates and find true prosperity in the future."
A few key points from the report:
In South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 3 million girls are married by age 15 - below the legal age of marriage in most countries. If all young women completed primary education, the number of child brides would be reduced by almost half a million. Completing secondary education would reduce that by 2 million
In these regions, 3.4 million young women give birth by the age of 17. If all young women completed primary schooling, this would result in 340,000 fewer early births, and if they all completed secondary education the total would fall by two million
If all children, regardless of their background and circumstances, had equal access to education, productivity gains would boost economic growth. By Renu Singh
Being born female in India continues to impose social costs on the girl child today. Even though discrimination towards girls is rampant across caste and class, girls belonging to socially and economically lower categories such as SC, ST, minority groups as well as girls with disabilities face multiple discrimination on terms of identity (caste, religion, ethnicity) in addition to gender, disability, poverty, etc (XII Plan Working Group on Girl Child). The Right to Education Act, 2009 notified in 2010 has furthered the task of enrolling children aged 6-14 in elementary schools across the country and currently the gender gap stands at 0.94 at primary level in 2011-12, similar to 2009, though it shows improvement for upper primary increasing from 0.94 in 2009 to 0.95 in 2010-11 (DISE, 2013). The retention rate of girls at primary level has shown a slight improvement 75.94% in 2011-12 and the transition rate of girls at upper primary level has improved from 74.15% in 2003-04 to 87.32% in 2010-11, but there are 35 districts that continue to show a high gender gap.
Thus, despite overall encouraging trends, there continues to exist inequities in educational provision of girls in the country.
There is an emerging inequitable trend of greater share of boys' enrolment in private schools (majority being low-fee charging schools in rural and well as urban slums), with 'free' government schools catering largely to girls as well as boys from the poorest families.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-07/news/42793585_1_gender-gap-young-women-girls
Pauline Rose, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, Unesco, said: "It is a crime that there are over a million girls still out of school in India. On October 11, more than any other day, I hope the government recognises the importance of investing in education for these children. Not only is investing in girls' education a moral obligation, but it is also essential if the country wants to break free of its high child and maternal mortality rates and find true prosperity in the future."
A few key points from the report:
In South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 3 million girls are married by age 15 - below the legal age of marriage in most countries. If all young women completed primary education, the number of child brides would be reduced by almost half a million. Completing secondary education would reduce that by 2 million
In these regions, 3.4 million young women give birth by the age of 17. If all young women completed primary schooling, this would result in 340,000 fewer early births, and if they all completed secondary education the total would fall by two million
If all children, regardless of their background and circumstances, had equal access to education, productivity gains would boost economic growth. By Renu Singh
Being born female in India continues to impose social costs on the girl child today. Even though discrimination towards girls is rampant across caste and class, girls belonging to socially and economically lower categories such as SC, ST, minority groups as well as girls with disabilities face multiple discrimination on terms of identity (caste, religion, ethnicity) in addition to gender, disability, poverty, etc (XII Plan Working Group on Girl Child). The Right to Education Act, 2009 notified in 2010 has furthered the task of enrolling children aged 6-14 in elementary schools across the country and currently the gender gap stands at 0.94 at primary level in 2011-12, similar to 2009, though it shows improvement for upper primary increasing from 0.94 in 2009 to 0.95 in 2010-11 (DISE, 2013). The retention rate of girls at primary level has shown a slight improvement 75.94% in 2011-12 and the transition rate of girls at upper primary level has improved from 74.15% in 2003-04 to 87.32% in 2010-11, but there are 35 districts that continue to show a high gender gap.
Thus, despite overall encouraging trends, there continues to exist inequities in educational provision of girls in the country.
There is an emerging inequitable trend of greater share of boys' enrolment in private schools (majority being low-fee charging schools in rural and well as urban slums), with 'free' government schools catering largely to girls as well as boys from the poorest families.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-10-07/news/42793585_1_gender-gap-young-women-girls
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