Educating girls has numerous benefits - educated women are more likely to find work, while 1 in 5 adolescent girls and over 100 million young women in low/middle-income countries are unable to read or out of school. Between 2009-2013 there were attacks on schools in at least 70 countries sometimes targeting girls, parents, and teachers advocating for gender equality. In South Sudan, a young girl is 3 times more likely to die in pregnancy/childbirth than complete primary education. Malala Yousafzai argues that girls should have the right to an education.

1. Facts you should
know about
girls’ education5

2. Educated women
are more likely
to find work.
In Brazil 50% of women
with primary education
are in work; this rises to
60% of women with
secondary education
#1fact

3. but

4. 1in5ADOLESCENT GIRLS
are out of school
#2fact

5. young women living in low and
lower-middle income countries
are unable to read a single
sentence
100MILLION
OVER
#3fact

6. SCHOOL
Between 2009-2013
there were
attacks on schools
in at least 70 different countries,
with a number of these attacks
being specifically directed at
girls, parents and teachers
advocating for gender
equality in education
#4fact

7. Today, a young girl in
South Sudan is
3 times more
likely
to die in pregnancy or
childbirth than to
complete primary
education
#5fact

8. “Sometimes people like to ask me,
why should girls go
to school?
But I think the more important
question is:
why shouldn’t they
have this right?”
Malala Yousafzai (2014)

9. Join the movement
for girls’ rights
plan-international.org/joinus