Womanity

I often hear from concerned teachers that girls don’t speak up in their classes. They want girls to feel comfortable sharing their opinions, answering questions, and taking part in debates.

However, the most important thing teachers must do is understand that tackling participation is not about addressing girls’ confidence. Rather, it is about ensuring that girls don’t face barriers to speaking up in the first place. We can and must set up expectations and systems that fully support the self-worth and belonging of girls.

Teach For All Blog

For girls and women, closed schools can create challenges that educators are racing to mitigate, including physical and sexual violence, increased caregiving and household responsibilities, loss of access to sanitary products and reproductive health materials (contraceptives, advice, counseling), and increased pregnancy rates. Given the stakes, educators must keep the gendered impact of this crisis in mind when seeking to support all children.

Devex

As the world struggles to address climate change, global health crises, and surging concerns around artificial intelligence and privacy, it feels particularly important to assess where we are in terms of girls’ and women’s participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Fortunately, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to get girls and women into STEM careers.

teachforall.org

Each year, Teach For All offers an intensive fellowship designed to provide teachers, alumni, and staff of network partners with the knowledge, tools, connections, and confidence to initiate change for girls in their communities. These Global Girls’ Education Fellows participate in a virtual learning course and join webinars with network and external experts, covering a range of topics related to girls’ education and leadership.

Teach For All Blog

Every day, thousands of teachers, social innovators, school leaders and policymakers in the Teach For All network observe first-hand the particular challenges facing girls. While much of this work must be done at the policy level — particularly around limitations on comprehensive sexuality education, policies that restrict pregnant girls and mothers’ access to school, and curricular and textbook reform — we also know that dedicated local action often leads to immediate and long-term impact for girls and women.

Teach For All Blog

What is the relevance of International Day of the Girl in 2018? As many countries approach parity in school enrollment between girls and boys, and as some countries are seeing women overtake men in enrollment and achievement at colleges and universities, it could be tempting to ask if it’s still necessary to devote a day to girls.