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Where the girls are (and aren't)
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/20/448407788/where-the-girls-are-and-aren-t-15girlsSo, since the funding got cut for my job at the consulate, I've been working with multiple NGOs on clean water and education for girls who live in the slums (some of my kids have apps in the Google Play store now!). Many of those NGOs were a source for this (and I talked to Poole in the preparation of this article, along with dozens of others).
Female education is the single greatest proxy for economic development there is. In fact, the IMF literally just samples female literacy for some basic economic indicators at this point. But this excellent article points out the cases where this correlation does not apply, and mentions several other points where the world community is failing girls.
The world's girls are healthier than ever. They live longer and more of them are going to school than at any time in history.
This story is part of our #15Girls series, profiling teens around the world. Read the stories here.
But most of them face discrimination simply because they are girls. The discrimination happens at every point in their lives.
In some cases, it starts even before they're born, when parents decide to abort a pregnancy if the fetus is female.
A good way to get a sense of the progress — and the remaining gaps — in worldwide gender equality is by looking at the data. Numbers can tell a compelling story. The story we're going to tell focuses on girls ages 10 to 19, an age range used by the World Bank and other groups to track populations. Worldwide, about 600 million girls fall into this age range. Nearly half of them live in just seven countries. Those countries are the focus of our story. You might expect that there would be an even number of boys and girls in this age group in these seven countries. But you'd be wrong.
This story is part of our #15Girls series, profiling teens around the world. Read the stories here.
But most of them face discrimination simply because they are girls. The discrimination happens at every point in their lives.
In some cases, it starts even before they're born, when parents decide to abort a pregnancy if the fetus is female.
A good way to get a sense of the progress — and the remaining gaps — in worldwide gender equality is by looking at the data. Numbers can tell a compelling story. The story we're going to tell focuses on girls ages 10 to 19, an age range used by the World Bank and other groups to track populations. Worldwide, about 600 million girls fall into this age range. Nearly half of them live in just seven countries. Those countries are the focus of our story. You might expect that there would be an even number of boys and girls in this age group in these seven countries. But you'd be wrong.
Trigger warnings: it gets much, much darker if you read on. But you should.
EDIT: OMFG! Sorry. Link included now.
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Sorry. Fixed.
Thank you...
