Echidna Global Scholars Series

Girls in Peru

Educational gaps among ethnic minorities

Eliana Villar Márquez

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

School children

Gender-sensitive pedagogy

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Girls in Pakistan

The importance of educating girls in the Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Climbing cubes

Pathways for gender equality through early childhood teacher policy in China

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

School girls walk in front of a sign at the ramshackle town of Morococha in the Andean city of Junin, June 18, 2012. High in the Andes mountain range, a Chinese mining company is now in the housing construction and demolition business as it works to relocate a Peruvian town that sits in the way of its $2.2 billion Toromocho copper mine. By late July, state-owned miner Chinalco says it will finish building a new city of paved roads and multi-story homes for 5,000 people currently living on the side of a giant red mountain of copper 15,000 feet (4,500 meters) above sea level. Picture taken June 18, 2012. To match Feature PERU-MINING/CHINALCO REUTERS/Pilar Olivares (PERU - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E8711UBF01

Barriers to secondary school completion for Afro-Peruvian girls

Eliana Villar Márquez

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Grace Debroha, a 13-year-old orphan, writes the names of body parts on a chalkboard at St. Jude's Orphanage, outside Gulu, June 10, 2007. REUTERS/Edward Ou (UGANDA) - GM1DVLMFNKAA

More than policies are required to implement gender-sensitive pedagogy in Uganda

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

A child walks on a swinging bridge at a kindergarten in Wuhan, Hubei province, December 3, 2012. Expectations are now high that China could relax the one-child policy, or even implement a universal two-child policy such as the one in Jiuquan. Outgoing President Hu Jintao, for the first time, conspicuously dropped the phrase "maintain a low birth rate" in his work report to the Chinese Communist Party's twice a decade congress in November. That foreshadows a change to the one-child ethos, according to Ji Baocheng, a delegate to China's rubber stamp parliament who has petitioned five times for a change in the policy. Picture taken December 3, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1E91M0E8Y01

The importance of gender in early childhood education policy

Monday, November 5, 2018

Girls in uniform sit along a sidewalk while waiting for school van in Karachi, Pakistan November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro - RC124BAB2DC0

Educating girls is a must in the Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Monday, November 5, 2018

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks to students during a visit to promote girls' education at Hun Sen Prasaat Bankong high school on the outskirts of Siem Reap March 21, 2015. Cambodia is one of 11 countries to be targeted in the first year of Obama's "Let Girls Learn" initiative, launched last summer through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - GF10000033834

A global moment for local champions of girls’ education

Christina Kwauk

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Students eats their lunch at Kyamusansala Primary School in Masaka in southern Uganda March 24, 2009. MALTA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN MALTAREUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (UGANDA) - PM1E5560XG401

Teachers can empower girls through sex education in Uganda

Christine Apiot Okudi

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EST

Jamuna Devi Saud, 45, sits outside her house while practicing Chaupadi in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014. Chaupadi is a tradition observed in parts of Nepal, which cuts women off from the rest of society when they are menstruating. Women who practice traditional chaupadi have to sleep in sheds or outbuildings while they are on their period, often with little protection from the elements. They are not allowed to enter houses or temples, use normal public water sources, take part in festivals or touch others during their menstruation, according to a United Nations field bulletin on the issue. Isolated in sheds that are frequently rickety and unhygienic, there have been cases of women dying while practicing chaupadi from illness, exposure, animal attacks or from fires lit in poorly ventilated spaces. Chaupadi was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005, but it is still common in the country's far and mid-western regions. Picture taken February 16, 2014. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 18 OF 20 FOR PACKAGE 'BANISHED ONCE A MONTH' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'CHAUPADI' - GM1EA350LH601

3 strategies to address menstruation taboos for girls in Nepal

Friday, September 21, 2018

A baby touches her mother's shoulder as they rest at the shelter set up in the Lycee Philippe Guerrier ahead of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares - S1BEUEWVDMAA

Why child care is essential to young mothers’ education in Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC15B45AD320

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Thursday, September 6, 2018

Boys react to the camera during their recess break in the middle of their academic day at a school in Mumbai August 10, 2010. The Right to Education Act that came into force has made free and compulsory education the right of every child between the age of 6 to 14 years old in India. UNESCO says the Act has brought the country closer to meeting its millennium development goals, with an estimated eight million out-of-school Indian children now having better access to education. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: EDUCATION) - GM1E68A1UHJ01

Teaching boys to examine gender in patriarchal societies

Thursday, August 23, 2018