Summary

EDUCATION FOR ALL GLOBAL MONITORING REPORT 2015
GENDER SUMMARY
List of boxes and figures
Boxes
Box 1: The Dakar EFA goals and strategies..................................................................................................................... 5
Box 2: International conventions that support gender equality...................................................................................... 6
Box 3: Fewer than half of countries will have achieved parity in both primary and secondary education by 2015...... 8
Box 4: Boys’ disengagement from schooling has broad repercussions for gender relations ..................................... 27
Box 5: Conflict leaves a legacy of gender-based violence in Liberia............................................................................ 30
Box 6: Dakar strategies to achieve gender equality in education................................................................................. 31
Box 7: Multiple stakeholders support campaign to promote girls’ education in Turkey............................................. 34
Box 8: Gender equality and the 2016 sustainable development goals......................................................................... 47
Figures
Figure 1: Gender disparities in enrolment are more apparent as education levels increase....................................... 8
Figure 2: All regions but one achieved gender parity in pre-primary education............................................................ 9
Figure 3: Regional gender disparities in primary education have narrowed,
with the greatest progress seen in South and West Asia......................................................................................... 9
Figure 4: Gender disparity in primary enrolment has been reduced, but wide gaps remain in several countries..... 10
Figure 5: Despite progress in reducing severe gender disparity,
girls still face difficulty enrolling in primary school in several countries............................................................... 11
Figure 6: Almost half of out-of-school girls will never enrol in school......................................................................... 13
Figure 7: In most countries with high numbers of children out of school,
the poorest girls continue to be most likely never to have attended...................................................................... 13
Figure 8: While girls are less likely to enrol in school, boys are more likely to leave early.......................................... 14
Figure 9: While progress has been made, gender disparity in attaining
a primary education is widest among the poorest children.................................................................................... 15
Figure 10: While some regions have shown remarkable progress in reducing
gender disparity in secondary education, wide disparities remain......................................................................... 16
Figure 11: Gender gaps in secondary education have improved, but remain wide in some regions........................... 18
Figure 12: Gender disparities are perpetuated and widen throughout lower secondary............................................. 18
Figure 13: Large disparities remain in tertiary education.............................................................................................. 19
Figure 14: Although learning gender gaps are narrowing, boys outperform girls in mathematics,
while girls increasingly outperform boys in reading, by a wider margin................................................................ 21
Figure 15: Girls in Pakistan generally perform worse than boys in mathematics and reading................................... 22
Figure 16: Women’s literacy continues to lag behind that of men................................................................................. 23
Figure 17: Only two-thirds of female youth in sub-Saharan Africa will be literate in 2015.......................................... 23
Figure 18: Since 1999, women’s share of the primary teaching force has increased, and they
make up a substantial proportion of new entrants in several countries................................................................ 38
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