Nasrin Siddiqa

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

Barriers to STEM education for rural girls

Nasrin Siddiqa and Amanda Braga

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Yasmin, a Rohingya girl who was expelled from Leda High School for being a Rohingya, helps her younger sister to study in Leda camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain - RC14D96237D0

Beyond labs and numbers: STEM’s role in girls’ skills development in Bangladesh

Friday, October 11, 2019

Workers sort clothes at a garment factory near the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar June 16, 2013. The April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza complex, built on swampy ground outside Dhaka with several illegal floors, killed 1,132 workers and focused international attention on sometimes lax safety standards in Bangladesh's booming garment industry. At least five different Bangladesh agencies have dispatched teams to start inspecting the country's thousands of garment factories, but there has been little coordination between them. More than four million people, mostly women, work in Bangladesh's clothing sector, which is the country's largest employment generator, with annual exports worth $21 billion. Picture taken June 16, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TEXTILE) - GM1E97T1MVQ01

Why we need to enhance STEM education for rural girls in Bangladesh

Monday, July 1, 2019