Education

Education
One of the 12 critical areas of concern
Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action

1. Proposed Action: Must provide equal access to educational opportunities including literacy programs, vocational training, and life-long learning possibilities for all including women, especially those who live in poverty.
2. Positive steps: Education is recognized as a key to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
3. Negative steps: Women and girls still lag in math, science, and technology fields. Limited progress in mainstreaming women’s contributions, perspectives, and history, and in eliminating sex-stereotyping in school curricula.
4. What is next? Need to provide for vocational and life-long learning programs especially to promote literacy and job skills.  Programs need to be made sustainable through low-cost options that include child-care for students.