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The Quest for Gender Equality in Burkina Faso
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Only 8.1 % percent of women ages 15 and above in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) were literate in 2005, compared to 18.5% of men. The question of why this inequality remained alongside others, twenty-five years after the enthusiasm and energy inspired by Upper Volta's multi-faceted UNESCO/UNDP Project for Equal Access of Women and Girls to Education, preoccupied Scholastique Kompaoré and Brenda Gael McSweeney. The authors went back in 2005 to the zones of the Project for Equal Access to Education to examine its legacy, including various aspects of women's lives in villages that participated. They looked particularly into the impact of workload-lightening technologies; literacy, income-generating activities and political voice of women; and access to education for girls. This paper outlines their conclusions and identifies topics for further investigation in the quest for gender equality and female empowerment in Burkina Faso.
Article File Gender equality in Burkina Faso.pdf
Author(s) Scholastique Kompaoré and Brenda Gael McSweeney, with Jennifer Hilda Frisanco
Publication date March 2007




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