Echidna Global Scholars Series

Girls' education research and policy symposium

8:30 AM - 6:00 PM EDT

Schoolgirls eat their free mid-day meal, distributed by a government-run primary school, in New Delhi July 5, 2013. In an incident on July 16, 2013, twenty-five Indian children from a school in Mashrakh village in the district of Chapra died and dozens needed hospital treatment after apparently being poisoned by a school meal, provided under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, sparking violent protests and angry allegations of blame. Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. ATTENTION EDITORS - Neither the children nor the school pictured in this photograph were involved in Tuesday's poisoning incident. Picture taken July 5, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: FOOD EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E97I0U8R01

As India extends preschool education to all, incorporate gender sensitivity from the start

Samyukta Subramanian

Tuesday, July 2, 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

A girl writes with chalk while celebrating Shreepanchami festival at a temple in Kathmandu February 8, 2011. Children are given their first writing and reading lessons at the temple during this festival in the belief that the goddess of education Saraswati will help them excel in education. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E7280ZZG01

For girls in Nepal, an educational gap hinders the transition to work

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Girls attend a class at Khushal School, in the home region of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai in Swat Valley, Pakistan March 30, 2018. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood - RC137E93FC70

Echidna Global Scholars: Making an impact on girls’ education around the world

Thursday, March 7, 2019

School girls wearing pink turbans wave during celebrations to mark International Day of the Girl Child 2018, at a school in Chandigarh, India October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ajay Verma TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1336C3B510

Echidna Global Scholars: Four leaders in girls’ education share their stories and policy ideas

Christina Kwauk and Fred Dews

Friday, December 7, 2018

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