The document discusses the importance of gender equality and educating girls/women for development. It notes that the UN established Millennium Development Goals in 2000, including achieving gender equality and empowering women. Educating females yields economic and social benefits like increased productivity, labor participation, earnings, health, and child nutrition. Studies show educating mothers has significant impacts like increasing rates of female children attending school and reducing domestic violence. The document recommends policies and measures to promote gender training, safe school environments, and accelerated programs to boost female education rates.

2. Gender Education in New
Millennium

3. “The most valuable of all capital is that
which is invested in human beings.”
— Alfred Marshall, 1890

4. What are the Millennium
Development Goals? (MDGs)
September 2000: World Leader came together
at United Nations Headquarters in New York to
adopt the United Nations Millennium
Declaration and committed their nations to a
new global partnership to promote
development through a series of time-
bounded goals with a deadline of 2015.
In total, 8 goals were established, which have
become known as the Millennium
Development Goals. (MDGs)

6. Empirical Evidence
Education should be a profitable investment
for the individual.
Moreover, the social benefits associated with
schooling, particularly women’s schooling,
suggest that primary schooling investment is
a priority.

7. Why Gender Equality???
Gender (Women schooling) education is not
just a women’s issue, it is a development issue.
Women’s economic empowerment is essential
for economic development, growth, and
poverty reduction not only because of the
income it generates, but also because it helps
to break the vicious cycle of poverty.

8. Need to Educating Girls/Women
Educating girls and women is critical to Economic
Development.
Research conducted in a variety of countries and
regions has established that educating girls is one of
the most cost-effective ways of accelerating
development.
Female education creates powerful poverty-reducing
tool and yields enormous intergenerational gains.
It is positively correlated with increased economic
productivity, more robust labor markets, higher
earnings, and improved societal health and well-
being.

9. Good Source of Human Capital
For developing countries in particular, women
represent a good source of human capital, and
countries that have adopted aggressive policies to
promote gender equality in education reap higher
social and economic benefits.
Greater investment in girls’ education is vital for
increasing female participation and productivity
in the labor market, especially in non-
agricultural wage employment.
Greater productivity means higher economic growth
and more effective reduction of poverty.

10. Good Rate of Return
Whether self-employed or earning
wages, working women help their
households to escape poverty.
When women have more schooling, the
returns flow not only to themselves, but
to the next generation as well.

11. Good Development Rate
Indeed, studies have shown that giving
women more access to education,
markets (labor, land, credit), and new
technology, give out greater control over
household resources, and greater well-
being for the household.

12. Conts.
When women have greater control over
resources in the family, they are more
likely to allocate more resources to food,
children’s health care, and education.
Simply put, limiting women’s economic
options is a missed opportunity; it wastes
resources and it slows progress on
poverty reduction which is a major issue
in the Asian region.

13. Impact of an educated mother
Educated women are more likely to send their
daughters to school.
Countries with higher levels of female
secondary-school enrollment have lower
infant mortality rates, better family planning,
lower rates of illness, and better child
nutrition.
More education reduces the rate of violence
against women, enables them to leave abusive
relationships, and empowers them to reject
adverse cultural practices, such as female
karo kari, vani, swara etc .

14. Non-commercial and External Benefits of
Education
Benefit type Findings
Child education Parental schooling affects child’s schooling
level and achievement.
Child health Child’s health is positively related to parental
education.
Women’s health Good education increases quality of life .
Spouse’s health spouse’s health and environment directly benefits by an
educated wife.
Job search efficiency An educated woman is highly competent.
Desired family size Education of a mother improves contraceptive
efficiency.
Social cohesion Quality of Schooling improves personality to affect social
interaction.

15. Recommendations
In the Area of policy decision-making, the
following measures are advisable:
• Involving Institutions of civil Society, especially
Women-led NGOs, that support the Education of
Girls and Women
• Working to Create Stronger links between
Education, Gender objectives, and Health in
Global Policies, proposed in the MDGs
• Providing more funding and trained staff for the
Women's offices now established in the national
government machinery of most countries

16. Practical Measures
• Providing recurrent Gender training to Teachers,
Administrators, and Policy-makers.
• Creating safe school enviroments to protect
children, girls and young from sexual harassment
by adults and peers, both in school and university
settings.
• Offering increased and sustained training to
Parents and Communities on Gender isssues,
including the importance of Girls' and Women's
Education.

17. Cont....
• Providing accelerated programs for girls
who have been out of school for several
years.

18. References
Tembon,M. and Fort,L.“Girls’ Education in
the 21st Century: Gender Equality,
Empowerment, and Economic Growth”
Washington DC.

19. Any question???
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