Resources on education and gender equality

Data and statistics

• Gender Equality in Education, UIS-UNESCO
• Gender reviews, Global Education Monitoring Report
• World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE), UIS-UNESCO and Global Education Monitoring Report
• Scoping Progress in Education (SCOPE), Global Education Monitoring Report, 2020
• Gender inequality in learning achievement in primary education: what can TERCE tell us?, UNESCO-OREALC, 2016

Country case studies

Background papers reviewing progress on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action:

• Argentina - Botswana - Brazil - Bulgaria - Comoros - Ethiopia - Germany - Nepal - Sierra Leone - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom

Gender dimensions of COVID-19 school closures

• #HerEducationOurFuture Fact Sheet: Keeping girls in the picture during and after the COVID-19 crisis, UNESCO, 2021

• Addressing the gender dimensions of COVID-19: Issue Note, UNESCO, 2020
• Building back equal: Girls back to school guide, UNESCO, UNICEF, Plan International, UNGEI and Malala Fund, 2020
• Keeping girls in the picture advocacy campaign
• COVID-19 Response Dashboard

For more resources, please visit UNESCO Global Education Coalition’s Gender Flagship webpage.

Health and relationships

• UNESCO Health and Education Resource Centre
• Comprehensive Sexuality Education Implementation Toolkit
• Review of the evidence: sexuality education for young people in digital spaces, UNESCO, 2020.
• Sexuality education in the digital space. Technical brief, UNESCO, 2020
• Information. Support. Connection: How are young people engaging with digital spaces to learn about bodies, sex and relationships?, UNESCO, 2020
• Facing the facts: the case for comprehensive sexuality education, UNESCO, 2019
• International technical guidance on sexuality education: an evidence-informed approach, UNESCO, 2018
• Early and Unintended Pregnancy. Recommendations for the education sector - brief, UNESCO, 2017
• Early and unintended pregnancy & the education sector: Evidence Review and Recommendations, UNESCO, 2017

For more resources, please visit UNESCO’s resource page on health and wellbeing.

Learning environments

• Behind the numbers: Ending school violence and bullying, UNESCO, 2018
• School Violence and Bullying: Global Status Report, UNESCO, 2017
• Let's decide how to measure school violence, UNESCO, 2017
• Global guidance on addressing school-related gender-based violence, UNESCO and UN Women, 2017

For more resources, please visit UNESCO’s resource page on school violence and bullying.

Literacy

• Girls’ and women’s literacy with a lifelong learning perspective: issues, trends and implications for the Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO, 2016
• Promoting Health and Literacy for Women’s Empowerment, UNESCO-UIL, 2016

For more resources, please visit UNESCO’s resource page on literacy.

Policy and planning

• Gender responsive education sector planning, IIEP
• Gender at the Centre Initiative, IIEP

• Her Atlas: an atlas of girls’ and women’s right to education, UNESCO
• Beijing+25: generation equality begins with adolescent girls' education, UNESCO, Plan International and French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, 2020
• Gender in Education Network in Asia-Pacific (GENIA) toolkit: promoting gender equality in education, UNESCO Bangkok, 2019
• Achieving gender equality in education: don’t forget the boys, UNESCO, 2017

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and digital skills

• EQUALS Digital Skills Hub, UNESCO
• Female science and mathematics teachers: better than they think?, IEA and UNESCO, 2021
• STEM Education for Girls and Women: Breaking Barriers and Exploring Gender Inequality in Asia, UNESCO, 2020
• Boosting gender equality in science and technology: a challenge for TVET programmes and careers, UNEVOC, 2020
• Gender-responsive STEM education: Empowering girls and women for the jobs of today and tomorrow, UNESCO, 2019
• Resource guide: building girls’ interest in STEM education, UNESCO, 2019
• Report of the regional training for Francophone Africa, cracking the code: quality, gender-responsive STEM education, UNESCO, 2019
• Report of the regional training for Anglophone Africa, Cracking the code: quality, gender-responsive STEM education, UNESCO, 2019
• I’d blush if I could, UNESCO and EQUALS, 2019
• Cracking the code: girls' and women's education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), UNESCO, 2017
• A Resource pack for gender-responsive STEM education: Training tools for curriculum development, UNESCO-IBE, 2017

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More resources are available on UNESCO’s document database UNESDOC.