[New post] More boys than girls have been out-of-school since 2007

admin posted: "The number of girls out of school fell below that of boys in 2007. New data released by the UIS and GEM Report, accompanied by a policy paper, show that there are now 119 million girls out of school versus 126 million boys  This difference is sti" World Education Blog More boys than girls have been out-of-school since 2007 admin Oct 3 The number of girls out of school fell below that of boys in 2007. New data released by the UIS and GEM Report, accompanied by a policy paper, show that there are now 119 million girls out of school versus 126 million boys This difference is still small enough. Which means that, globally, there is almost no gender gap in out-of-school rates for each of the three main age groups – primary, lower secondary and upper secondary. However, this fact masks bigger differences by region, especially among youth of upper secondary school age. While in sub-Saharan Africa, the female out-of-school rate is 4.2 percentage points higher than the male rate, it is 3.1 percentage points lower in Eastern and South-eastern Asia. Read more of this post Comment Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from World Education Blog. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://world-education-blog.org/2022/10/03/more-boys-than-girls-have-been-out-of-school-since-2007/ Powered by Jetpack