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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Every day, girls face barriers to education caused by poverty, cultural norms and practices, poor infrastructure, violence and fragility. Girls’ education is a strategic development priority for the World Bank. CONTEXT Ensuring that all girls and young women receive a quality education is their...

Marking International Women’s day, UNESCO unveils new data in a factsheet on girls’ education. The data is published as part of the #HerEducationOurFuture initiative, which aims to accelerate action for girls’ and women’s education by leveraging political and financial commitments, as well as...

Scrum is a manner in which to accomplish goals, deliver products to a client and/or stakeholders, primarily in the Tech industry. More and more however, Scrum practices in part or in whole, have been successfully utilized to leverage Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles. Events such as the...

Working on women's economic empowerment, I have read assertions that women in the formal sector are more empowerment than women in the informal sector. Are they? It is argued that women in formal sector have to work lesser hours, at good terms and conditions, earn well and can save, are less...

Women are more vulnerable to COVID-19-related economic effects because of existing gender inequalities. What is good for gender equality is good for the economy and society as well. The COVID-19 pandemic puts that truth into stark relief and raises critically important choices. COVID-19 pandemic...

This op-ed shares the story of Pooja Shah’s grandmother, married at age 14. Her story is followed by statistics and information on the impact early marriage has on the education of girls, as well as the increasing number of human rights violations these girls face. Find it here: https://www...