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Aid Official Warns Of A Bleak Situation In Afghanistan As Winter Approaches…

When schools reopened recently in Afghanistan, only boys in grades 7 through 12 went back to class. Taliban leaders told girls that they must wait. "The explanation that we got from the Taliban is that this is just a slight delay, as they are working on operating procedures for girls," said...
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Female Government Workers In Kabul Told To Stay Home In Latest Taliban Rule…

The Taliban-appointed mayor of Kabul is telling most of the city government's female employees to stay home. In a new ruling passed down by the Taliban, Kabul interim mayor Hamdullah Namony said that women working for the city's government are to stay home pending a further decision, according to...
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The Modern Tragedy of Child Marriage…

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...
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The precocious period: Impact of early menarche on schooling in India…

Despite universal primary school enrolment in India, many adolescent girls drop out of school after completing eight years of compulsory schooling. A gender gap in school enrolment appears and grows during teenage years (Muralidharan & Prakash, 2018). What explains the appearance of a gender gap in...
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The Groups Fighting for Girls’ Education in India…

In a rapidly growing country, there are still obstacles facing girls in school but new initiatives are working against those obstacles aimed at creating more equal opportunities for girls despite their socioeconomic status. As the country grows rapidly, new initiatives are working against a host of...
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Teenage girls in India: Aspirations and reality…

There are 80 million teenage girls in India. A clear understanding of their current realities and their aspirations is essential in order to design effective policies for them. However, a key impediment for data-driven policy design, in order to address the needs of teenage girls in India, is the...
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Difficult Dialogues: A Compendium of Contemporary Essays on Gender Inequality…

Existing literature has documented a significant gender gap in various sectors including health, labour market opportunities, education and political representation in India. The objective of this compendium is to move the gender policy focus towards the underlying trends and causes of these gender...
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Achieving Gender Equality in India: What Works and What Doesn’t…

Discrimination against women and girls is a pervasive and long-running phenomenon that characterises Indian society at every level. India’s progress towards gender equality, measured by its position on rankings such as the Gender Development Index has been disappointing, despite fairly rapid rates...
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