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Marking International Women’s day, UNESCO unveils new data in a factsheet on girls’ education. The data is published as part of the #HerEducationOurFuture initiative, which aims to accelerate action for girls’ and women’s education by leveraging political and financial commitments, as well as leadership for women and girls.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented disruption to education, UNESCO estimates that 11 million girls may not return to school. Girls aged 12-17 are at particular risk of dropping out of school in low and lower-income countries, whereas boys are more at risk in upper-middle and high-income countries.
Before COVID-19, there was already a long way to reach gender equality in and through education. In 10 countries around the world (Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Senegal and Timor-Leste), the poorest girls spend less than 2 years in school on average. In Guinea, Mali and Pakistan over 80%
#HerEducationOurFuture: keeping girls in the picture during and after the COVID-19 crisis;the latest facts on gender equality in education
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Girls’ education and COVID-19: New factsheet shows increased inequalities for the education of adolescent girls
Marking International Women’s day, UNESCO unveils new data in a factsheet on girls’ education. The data is published as part of the #HerEducationOurFuture initiative, which aims to accelerate action for girls’ and women’s education by leveraging political and financial commitments, as well as leadership for women and girls.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented disruption to education, UNESCO estimates that 11 million girls may not return to school. Girls aged 12-17 are at particular risk of dropping out of school in low and lower-income countries, whereas boys are more at risk in upper-middle and high-income countries.
Marking International Women s Day, Facebook has published a new report into gender imbalance, and the ways in which businesses can ensure they commit to addressing such by working with female-owned organizations and boosting women and under-represented voices.
Facebook notes that while much progress has been made on addressing the gender gap, much work remains. That s been underlined, once again, by the pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted women-owned businesses. In Facebook’s most recent Global State of Small Business Report, created in conjunction with the OECD and the World Bank, women leading small and medium businesses reported that they were more likely than men SMB leaders to close because of the pandemic. Overall, women lost a million more jobs over the course of the pandemic in 2020 than men did. In fact, women lost 156,000 jobs in December 2020 alone, while men gained 16,000 jobs that month.
PAHO Director calls for more women in leadership of the fight against COVID-19 8 Mar 2021
Washington, D.C., 8 March 2021 (PAHO) Marking
International Women’s Day, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Carissa F. Etienne today said that women are “on the frontlines” of the fight against COVID-19 but underrepresented in global and national health leadership. She called for building leadership with the “full involvement of women” during and after the pandemic.
“Women make up the great majority of health care workers,” Dr. Etienne said during a virtual International Women’s Day conference hosted by PAHO. “They head households and are the main providers for many of these households – much of this is unpaid work and in the informal labor workforce. Indeed women are at the very heart of the response, yet women remain disproportionately underrepresented in national and global health leadership, whether in health institutions or other policy