Ms. NADIA HANIFE (Director, Afghan Women Education Center): They don't have any other option, where they should go.
The emphasis placed on girl empowerment and education at this conference, can help connect the dots for young women education globally.
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There was very definitely discrimination against young women in education and employment in, say, the 1920s.
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When we empower women with education and access to reproductive health services, we can lift an entire nation.
You feel threatened by women accessing education, asserting their rights as human beings so you rape them with a metal rod?
Myrna Lim is the Executive Director of the Notre Dame Foundation for Charitable Activities, including Women in Education and Development, in the Philippines since 1992.
And despite steady gains made by women in education, employment and the economy, supporters say an ERA is needed to protect those gains against a hostile Supreme Court or Congress.
Other states, some of them no less poor, have woken up to the crucial balance between people and jobs and the advantages that accrue from emancipating women through education and family planning.
National NGOs such as Nirantar, which has worked to empower Indian women through education since 1993, will rub shoulders with large global structures such as the International Council for Adult Education, a global partnership of adult learners and adult educators and their organizations.
Mr. Obama built his re-election majority with minorities, young people, single women and affluent whites and college-education women who are culturally liberal.
Women with post primary education are five times more likely than illiterate women to be educated on HIV prevention.
In some areas such as North Africa and the Middle East, more women than men are enrolled in tertiary education, but women have yet to catch up in political representation, technology, access to capital and management skills, to name but a few examples.
The chambers of commerce now have women's sections and billions of riyals are invested in women's education.
Many of the same arguments used against integrating women into higher education are being used now for the military.
"It's nonsense that the Taliban are against women's education, " the local insurgent commander, Maulvi Darwish, says in a phone interview.
The Mother's Index uses indicators of maternal health and under-five mortality, as well as women's education, income and political status.
The Taleban's opposition to women receiving an education has meant that many young Afghan females have never received any formal classroom lessons.
In the 18th century Mary Wollstonecraft insisted that women needed an education in order to fulfill their national duty: educating their sons.
The latter has, in particular, prevented girls and women from accessing education.
Even in Islamic Iran, some women are choosing education over marriage, exploiting newly relaxed divorce laws or flashing fake wedding rings to secure sole lodgings.
The council's advisory role means it can offer proposals and programs to executive bodies that emphasize women's education, employment and civil, legal and social status.
Legal access to contraception is a significant factor in a larger number of women getting at least some college education and in more women pursing advanced degrees.
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This counter-intuitive finding begs the question: Why are the most educated women reversing the childless trend when historically women with more education have less or no children?
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By email, the American graphic designers chose an anonymous Indian egg donor from profiles provided by the clinic that included the women's education levels and current family status.
Its main focus: women and girls education.
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Women need an education about how their decisions about what to study impact their future earnings, what careers and specialties to pursue to maximize earnings, and how many hours spent at their jobs will drive their long-term earning potential.
While girls around the world are not getting anywhere near the same investment in attention and education boys are, the phenomenon is not measured properly in many countries and empirical data is therefore scarce on the impact of women's education on societies.
Despite the fact that jobs experts predict growth in employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math will grow more than 7% faster than any other sector over the next five years, the number of women pursuing STEM education and career paths.
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