Gender

Key issues

Early/child marriage, abuse, violence

	Article from Newsletter 7: Early marriage and education
		The following documents provide useful extra reading to the article in EENET’s newsletter no. 7. For example, they include details of the root causes and impacts of early marriage. The Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls can be contacted via EENET. Early Marriage: Whose right to choose? (pdf 228k) (Author: Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls. Date: 2000. Country: global) Early Marriage: Sexual exploitation and the human rights of girls (pdf 415k) (Author: Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls. Date: 2001. Country: global) Early Marriage and Poverty: Exploring links for policy and programme development (pdf 387k) (Author: Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls. Date: 2003. Country: global) Ending Child Marriage: A guide for global policy action (pdf 312k) (Author: International Planned Parenthood Federation and the Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls. Date: 2006. Country: global) Marriage and Childbirth as Factors in School Exit: An analysis of DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa (pdf 409k) (Authors: C. Lloyd and B. Mensch/Population Council. Date: 2006. Country: sub-Saharan Africa)
	Article from Newsletter 7: Gender violence in African schools (Author: Fiona Leach. Date: 2003. Country: Ghana, Malawi, Zimbabwe)
	Article from Newsletter 9: Sexual abuse and education in Zambia
	Article from newsletter 11: Young people’s views on early marriage and education, northern Nigeria (Author: Danladi Mamman. Date: 2007. Country: Nigeria)

Other Gender Issues

	A Female Professional Development Teacher’s Journey in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (PDF 175k) This personal account looks at issues of leadership and gender within education and teacher training. (Author: Safida Begum. Date: 2006. Country: Pakistan)
	Investing in girls' schooling a win-win strategy (Author: Daily Nation newspaper, Kenya. Date: 2003. Country: global)
	Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. Toward universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions This UN Task Force is developing an operational framework of action for meeting Millennium Development Goal Target 3, to “ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.”

Useful Links

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
FAWE is an international non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya that brings together women education ministers, women vice-chancellors and other senior women policy makers in education for the purpose of influencing policy changes in favour of the education of the African girl-child. FAWE has an extensive website. It includes a large number of documents and FAWE newsletters covering a range of girl-child education issues (eg, teenage pregnancy; HIV/AIDS; conflict situations; drop-outs; EFA; poverty; gender analysis). All documents are in English and some have been translated into French (although these translations are not on the FAWE website).

‘Links’: Edition on girls’ education – October 2003 – Oxfam
‘Links’ is a newsletter on gender produced by Oxfam GB for its staff and partners. You can view this edition on girls’ education on Oxfam’s website.

Key issues

28/03/2007