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Partnerships will improve girls education 02/15/2007 The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind? Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Gender] [MDGs] Image: A girl in Gujarat, India © IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks)

Rent-a-womb: The Latest Indian Export 11/16/2006 When it comes to providing new possibilities for the outsourcing and offshoring of services, no one can beat us Indians. The proof of this comes from the latest form of such offshoring that is increasingly using India as the preferred location: the phenomenon of surrogate motherhood. Read more Related: [MDGs] [Development] [Economy] [Human Rights] [Gender] Image: © Women's Human Rights Net

Education must for gender equality: World Bank 05/09/2006 At the launch of the World Banks country gender assessment in pakistan, speakers said that education is the only prescription for gender equality in the country.They said over the years female education had not been given due attention, due to which women despite having immense talent had failed to play their due role in the countrys development. Read more Related: [Pakistan] [Development] [Education] [Gender] [Governance] [MDGs] Image: Pakistani women at a workshop © World Bank

Women teachers have a major role in education 04/27/2006 Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh emphasised the role of women teachers in the learning process at the valedictory function of the "Education For All" programme organised at National Bal Bhavan. Read more Related: [India] [Gender] [Governance]

To save the girl child - invest 03/31/2006 In 1990, Amartya Sen observed that the world was short of 100 million women because of excess female mortality in India, China and South Korea. The next year, Ansley Coale put the figure at around 60 million for China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and West Asia and Egypt. Read more Related: [South Asia] [Development] [Gender] [MDGs]

Tamil nadu Governor lays emphasis on education of women 03/28/2006 Education was necessary to enlighten women and help them rise up in life, said Surjit Singh Barnala, Governor of Tamil Nadu. I am not against veils or `pardha.' But inhibitions have to be shed," he said. He also mention that "If you educate a man, an individual becomes a literate, but if you educate a woman, her whole family members would become literates. Education is a liberating and democratising force, cutting across barriers of religion, caste and class". Read more Related: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Education] [Gender] [Governance] [MDGs]

Lankan women demand 30% 03/09/2006 Taking a cue from their counterparts in India, Sri Lankan women are asking for 30 per cent reservation in all elected bodies, including parliament.This follows a finding that there are too few women in these bodies, though women are 50 per cent of the island's population of 20 million, and are over 50 per cent of the electorate. Read more Related: [South Asia] [Sri Lanka] [Development] [Civil Rights] [Gender] [Governance] [MDGs]

Illiterate indian woman to address UN on Feb. 27 02/10/2006 An illiterate dalit woman from a Bihar village, who lives up to a king size reputation for spearheading "anti-liquor campaigns" is all set to address a seminar at the United Nations. Read more Related: [India] [Development] [Gender] [Social Exclusion] [Civil Society] [Governance] [MDGs]

Educating adolescents to cope with pressures 12/29/2005 Adolescence, for most, is a period of confusion, and many fall wayward due to absence of timely intervention and guidance. In an effort to make adolescents cope up with the pressures of the modern day, the Rotary Mysore Midtown conducted a programme on life skill education for adolescents recently. Read more Related: [India] [Development] [Education] [Youth] [Civil Society] [Governance] [MDGs]

7000 Nepali women trafficked Annually 12/06/2005 Addressing the inaugural session of the three-day informative meet titled "UN's Millennium Development Goal for gender equality and women empowerment" Judge Mohan Prasad Ghimire of the Appellate Court of Pokhara has said around 7,000 women are being trafficked from Nepal every year. Read more Related: [South Asia] [Nepal] [Development] [Migration] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Governance]

Sex education in school curriculum mooted 11/29/2005 As a part of its ongoing campaign to impart sex education to the adolescents, the Population Education Cell (PEC) of SCERT has taken up interaction session with parents and other professionals of all walks of life. Read more Related: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Children] [Education]

First women's university opens in Multan 11/29/2005 The first women's university of south Punjab formally has started functioning, initially with four disciplines, at the Government College for Women in Multan. In a ceremony held at the girl's college, the university formally launched its post-graduate academic activities for women. Read more Related: [South Asia] [India] [Development] [Education] [Gender] [Governance]

Efforts to achieve gender parity in primary education (MDG 3) were off track:UNICEF 11/28/2005 The world is set to miss its target of getting as many girls as boys into schools by the end of this year, the UN children’s fund (Unicef) said on Friday. In a new study, Unicef said that efforts to achieve gender parity in primary education were off track, despite progress in many nations. Read more Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [Gender] [MDGs]

Gender and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy 10/14/2005 In this paper, Ramya Subrahmanian provides an overview of key issues relating to the achievement of gender equity in education, laying out some of the contradictions and tensions in donor discourse and policy efforts, and pointing out some of the disjunctures between policy assumptions and the complexities of household decision making in different contexts. The past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the importance accorded to education, with both “instrumental” as well as “intrinsic” arguments made for increasing financial investment and policy attention to education provision Read more

Education causing gender biases 10/14/2005 Educationists and social scientists are increasingly veering around to the view that persistent gender biases are rooted in India's failed education system. As a result, the search for gender parity must begin with guaranteed access to quality education for all. Read more

Gender sensitivity in curricula 10/14/2005 Every citizen has the right to express her thoughts, cast her vote or contest elections." "In a modern democracy, a citizen has rights, through which she can participate in the formation of the government, in its smooth functioning, or in its removal." These lines, from the chapter on Citizenship, use the feminine as the linguistic norm. Critics are outraged. How can we accept the feminisation of the citizens of India? Or is this simply a case of poor linguistic skills? Read more

Are girl students safe? 10/14/2005 The principal of a government school in north Delhi raped a Class 10 student of the school. The principal, who was also the girl's private tutor, took the girl to three cronies of his. The four eminently respectable men - a school principal, a vice-principal and two businessmen - gang raped the 16-year old girl during the night. The next morning they sent her back to her parents Read more

Bangladesh achieves gender parity in schooling 08/17/2005 Read more

Girls’ education is now a state priority in Bihar 08/12/2005 Read more

The gender gap in education 08/10/2005 Today most urgent priority is to ensure access to, and improve the quality of, education for girls and women, and to remove every obstacle that hampers their active participation. Read more Related: [Gender]

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