Two-thirds of the world's illiterates are women. Girls face numerous barriers to education including poverty, household responsibilities, and social and cultural factors that prevent girls' education from being considered profitable or essential. Investing in girls' and women's education is key to sustainable development as it empowers women and allows them to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. World Education works with local partners to design and implement community-based programs that help girls enroll and stay in school and help women gain access to new educational and social resources.

1. By
-Pravar Jain
Class-10B
Roll Number-36

2. • Two-thirds of the world’s 876 million
illiterates are women
• 70 % of the poor in the world are
women

3. • 113 million primary school children are
being denied their right to education.
Almost two-thirds of them are female
• Fewer girls than boys finish primary
school. By the time they reach 18, girls
have an overage of 4,4 years less
education than boys

4. • Girls in many countries are expected to begin
helping out at an early age with household
responsibilities which prevents them from
attending formal schooling
• Investing in girls and women education is not
considered profitable by many poor
communities
• In many patriarchal societies women and girls
are denied their fundamental human rights,
among them, the right to education.

5. • In some countries, empowering women
through education is not considered essential
and sometimes contrary to the role that they
are expected to perform
• Cultural and socialCultural and social factors have a majorfactors have a major
impact on female access to schooling,impact on female access to schooling,
• Compounded by:Compounded by: povertypoverty – in itself a denial of– in itself a denial of
human rights. It is THE critical barrier tohuman rights. It is THE critical barrier to
education, in particular for girlseducation, in particular for girls

6. • “We must do more and better.”
• “How can poverty be eradicated
when the roots of ignorance are
left undisturbed?”
• Koïchiro Matsuura
• WHY and HOW?
Literacy, particularly the
literacy of women, is the
most important factor for
sustainable and equitable
development

7. • For people around the world, especially women, literacy is the
bridge from devastating poverty to renewed hope. The illiteracy
rate has risen substantially over the past 50 yearseducated
women can play a very important role in the development of the
country.
• Education is milestone of women empowerment because it
enables them to responds to the
• challenges, to confront their traditional role and change their life.
So that we can’t neglect the
• importance of education in reference to women empowerment
India is poised to becoming
• superpower, a developed country by 2020.

8. • The growth of women’s education in rural areas is
• very slow. This obviously means that still large womenfolk o f our
country are illiterate, the
• weak, backward and exploited.” : Gender discrimination still
persists in India and lot more needs to be done in the field
• of women's education in India. The gap in the male-female
literacy rate is just a simple indicator.
• While the male literary rate is more than 75% according to the
2001 Census, the female literacy
• rate is just 54.16%.

9. World Education has a long history of successfully working
with local partners to design, execute, manage and
evaluate participatory, community-based initiatives to
advance the conditions of girls and women. World
Education's programs help girls enroll and stay in school
and help women gain access to or create new
educational, financial, and social resources in their
communities. By improving educational opportunities for
girls and women, World Education helps women develop
skills that allow them to make decisions and influence
community change in key areas.

10. World Education has a long history of successfully working
with local partners to design, execute, manage and
evaluate participatory, community-based initiatives to
advance the conditions of girls and women. World
Education's programs help girls enroll and stay in school
and help women gain access to or create new
educational, financial, and social resources in their
communities. By improving educational opportunities for
girls and women, World Education helps women develop
skills that allow them to make decisions and influence
community change in key areas.