Educating girls in the 21st Century
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 16 Mar, 2009The World Bank report on Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth has been made available. It notes that overall primary school enrollments for girls in poor countries jumped from 87 percent in 1990 to 94 percent in 2004, with also more girls than ever before now in secondary school.
The fulltext is available as a downloadable pdf from both UN Pulse and World Bank (large file, very slow).