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Special Focus – Women and girls’ education and training

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This Special Focus is on women and girls’ education and training opportunities. As one of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action, women and girls’ education and training is essential to help them achieve their full potential. This Special Focus gathers news articles and blogs on the topic. [Special_Focus#Special_Focus_-_current|Read more] and see UN Women’s focus on the topic.

Special focus in the news

  • MoMA to Host Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to Repair Art World Gender Imbalance (New York Observer 18.02.15)

  • Woman and Education Forum to open tomorrow (Bahrain News Agency 16.02.2015)

  • UN rights report points to ‘increasing regularity’ of attacks on girls seeking education (UN News Centre 09.02.2015)

  • How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science (The NY Times 06.02.2015)

  • To Get Women Into Computer Science, Sheryl Sandberg Launches Lean In Mentorship Network (Techcrunch 06.02.2015)

  • India Launches Campaign to Save, Educate Girls (Voice of America 22.01.2015)

  • Malala dedicates Nobel Peace Prize win to girls’ education (the Guardian 21.01.2015)

  • Girls do better than boys at school, despite inequality (The Telegraph 22.01.2015)

  • Fitzroy Valley praised for response to scourge of foetal alcohol syndrome (The Guardian 20.01.2015)

  • For most highly educated women, motherhood doesn’t start until the 30s (Pew Research Center 15.01.2015)

  • MOOCs Aim To Strengthen Computer Science And Physics Teaching In Middle And High Schools (Forbes 13.01.2015)

  • Making Noida proud: vocational training for underprivileged girls and women (The Times of India 06.01.2015)

  • Women in science – STEM programs and higher education (Chron 13.01.2015)

  • Women’s education can solve social problems: Minister (Times ofIndia 10.01.2015)

  • Vietnam university gives priority to females in master enrollment for gender equality (Tuoitrenews 16.12.2014)

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