International consensus on education priorities accords an important place to achieving gender justice in the educational sphere. Both the Dakar ‘Education for All’ goals and the Millennium Development goals emphasise two goals, in this regard. These two goals are distinguished as gender parity goals [achieving equal participation of girls and boys in all forms of education based on their propo...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the less studied interrelationships and pathways between parental BMI, socioeconomic factors, family structure and childhood overweight. METHODS The cross-sectional LATE-study was carried out in Finland in 2007-2009. The data for the analyses was classified into four categories: younger boys and girls (ca 3-8 years) (n = 2573) and older boys and ...

The Female Secondary School Stipend Project in Bangladesh was established to increase the enrollment of girls in secondary schools, thereby delaying marriage and childbearing. This analysis examined the existing data using the social exclusion framework to clarify the primary exclusionary factors that have kept girls from education: harassment, poverty, and the primacy of marriage and childbirt...

Despite international agreements and national laws, marriage of girls <18 years of age is common worldwide and affects millions. Child marriage is a human rights violation that prevents girls from obtaining an education, enjoying optimal health, bonding with others their own age, maturing, and ultimately choosing their own life partners. Child marriage is driven by poverty and has many effects ...

Girl’s education is universally recognized in the International Development community as an and her community as a whole. Despite the many positive effects of educating girls, girls attend school at a lower rate than boys, creating a gender gap in education. My question is, what causes this gender were used to study these qualitative variables in a quantitative manner. I analyzed these variable...

The significant returns from female education to families, children, and women themselves, are well known. Women and girls with education are more likely to delay marriage, childbearing, and ultimately, give birth to fewer children. Female education is associated with increased nutritional status of children, improved health and survivorship, and increased education of children. Educated women ...