Download or read book What Works in Girls Education written by Gene B Sperling and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls. Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal Education, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls’ education. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any child could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist threats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided evidence that high-quality girls’ education around the world leads to wide-ranging returns: Better outcomes in economic areas of growth and incomes Reduced rates of infant and maternal mortality Reduced rates of child marriage Reduced rates of the incidence of HIV/AIDS and malaria Increased agricultural productivity Increased resilience to natural disasters Women’s empowerment What Works in Girls’ Education is a compelling work for both concerned global citizens, and any academic, expert, nongovernmental organization (NGO) staff member, policymaker, or journalist seeking to dive into the evidence and policies on girls’ education.
Download or read book A Plan for Improving Female Education written by Emma Willard and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Women written by Thomas A. DiPrete and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. The Rise of Women opens with a masterful overview of the broader societal changes that accompanied the change in gender trends in higher education. The rise of egalitarian gender norms and a growing demand for college-educated workers allowed more women to enroll in colleges and universities nationwide. As this shift occurred, women quickly reversed the historical male advantage in education. By 2010, young women in their mid-twenties surpassed their male counterparts in earning college degrees by more than eight percentage points. The authors, however, reveal an important exception: While women have achieved parity in fields such as medicine and the law, they lag far behind men in engineering and physical science degrees. To explain these trends, The Rise of Women charts the performance of boys and girls over the course of their schooling. At each stage in the education process, they consider the gender-specific impact of factors such as families, schools, peers, race and class. Important differences emerge as early as kindergarten, where girls show higher levels of essential learning skills such as persistence and self-control. Girls also derive more intrinsic gratification from performing well on a day-to-day basis, a crucial advantage in the learning process. By contrast, boys must often navigate a conflict between their emerging masculine identity and a strong attachment to school. Families and peers play a crucial role at this juncture. The authors show the gender gap in educational attainment between children in the same families tends to be lower when the father is present and more highly educated. A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, also tends to erode stereotypes that disconnect academic prowess and a healthy, masculine identity. Similarly, high schools with strong science curricula reduce the power of gender stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major in scientific fields. As the value of a highly skilled workforce continues to grow, The Rise of Women argues that understanding the source and extent of the gender gap in higher education is essential to improving our schools and the economy. With its rigorous data and clear recommendations, this volume illuminates new ground for future education policies and research.
Download or read book A Plan for Improving Female Education written by Emma Willard and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Female Education written by Robert Woodward Cushman and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century written by Jaime Osterman Alves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that the emergence of schoolgirl culture in nineteenth-century America presented significant challenges to subsequent constructions of normative femininity. The trope of the adolescent schoolgirl was a carrier of shifting cultural anxieties about how formal education would disrupt the customary maid-wife-mother cycle and turn young females off to prevailing gender roles. By tracing the figure of the schoolgirl at crossroads between educational and other institutions - in texts written by and about girls from a variety of racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds - this book transcends the limitations of "separate spheres" inquiry and enriches our understanding of how girls negotiated complex gender roles in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Religious Influences in Thai Female Education 1889 1931 written by Runchana P Suksod-Barger and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Runchana P. Suksod-Barger examines the impact of religion on female access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931- the early Modernisation Period in Thailand. Although Thailand is traditionally a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant missionaries during this era arrived in the country to convert Thais to Christianity. The Protestant belief in literacy, to enable everyone to read the Bible, opened up educational opportunities for Thai girls that had not previously been available to them. Suksod-Barger investigates the degree to which Buddhist and Christian influences affected Thai educational reforms for girls in primary and secondary education during the early Modernisation Period, using a feminist theoretical framework to understand the social, political, economic, and religious impact. The study contributes to the exploration of the historical and contextual discourse of Buddhism and women in Thailand, the history of education for Thai females during the early Modernisation Period and the overview of Protestant missions in the country, particularly their influence in establishing systems of mass education.
Download or read book Female Education in India An address etc written by Alexander Duff and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Education A discourse on Ps cxliv 12 etc written by Joseph EMERSON (of Beverly, U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education written by Hannah More and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Requisites of American Female Education written by Robert Woodward Cushman and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prize Essay on Native Female Education written by Krishna Mohan Banerjea and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female education in Pakistan The Impact of Socioeconomic factors written by Mahwish Rabia and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research deals with the educational journey of women in Pakistan and its directions. Still, little consideration is given to the issue of female education in south Asian countries. There is a number of factors that affect the education of women in a negative way. Among them, social customs and economical issues are the most influential ones. The current work examines how these factors influence and change the direction of female education in Pakistan.
Download or read book Female Education in relation to the wants of the age Prize essay written by William ANDERSON (Congregational Minister, Member of the General Council of the University of Aberdeen.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Best System of Female Education written by J. L. Chirol and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Education Notes of an address delivered to the pupils of Alfred House Collegiate Institution for young Ladies June 14 1849 at the distribution of certificates written by Thomas Trevethan SPICER and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Accomplished Lady Or Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune written by Hannah More and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
