Tag Archives: Gender

Gender bias can be seen in the way families spend their money on education

Posted on 15 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog The black box of who controls and who decides how a family’s monetary and other resources will be spent has long intrigued social scientists. Gender bias in such decisions can negatively affect spending on health … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Gender | Tagged finance, financing, Gender, gender equality, household spending | 3 Comments

Countries are still falling short of developing textbooks free of gender stereotypes

Posted on 10 March 2021 by GEM Report

By Nicole Bella, GEM Report and Matthias Eck, UNESCO Textbooks are powerful factors in the construction of gender identities. They transmit knowledge and present social and gender norms, shaping the world vision of children and young people. In some contexts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, textbooks | Tagged 2020 gender report, Gender, textbooks | 4 Comments

New gender gaps are developing as a result of school closures

Posted on 8 March 2021 by GEM Report

It is an entire year since lives have been disrupted worldwide due to COVID-19. School closures continue to impact more than 990 million students. UNESCO estimated that by the end of January, on average, schools had been closed or partially … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 gender report, Gender, gender equality | 2 Comments

Son preference and girls’ education in India and Bangladesh

Posted on 8 March 2021 by GEM Report

By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Nazia Mansoor, lecturer, University of Paris, Dauphine (London), Teresa Randazzo, lecturer University of Venice Cà Foscari and Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics, University of Kent, UK. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, right to education | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender equality, Inclusion, right to education | Leave a comment

Gender-responsive career counselling can help women’s progress in science

Posted on 11 February 2021 by GEM Report

Year-on-year the issue of women in science comes back to the surface as we celebrate the International Day of Women in Science. Yet, year-on-year there is not enough progress. The 2020 Gender Report showed that women are still over-represented in … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, STEM | Tagged Gender, gender equality, science, STEM, target 4.5, target 4.7 | Leave a comment

Education policies and practices continue to fail girls over early pregnancy

Posted on 20 November 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español By Nicole Bella, Matthias Eck and Constanza Ginestra Early pregnancy has been identified as a critical driver of school dropout and exclusion, especially for girls. Twenty-five years ago, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a landmark … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Equality, Equity, Gender, Inclusion | Tagged 2020 gender report, Gender, pregnancy | 2 Comments

First generation graduate Bharati Date: A village girl in India now on course to become a government officer

Posted on 23 October 2020 by GEM Report

This story is part of a campaign run by the GEM Report, #Iamthe1stgirl, to accompany the launch of the 2020 GEM Gender Report. The campaign tells the stories of many girls who were the first in their family to graduate, … Continue reading →