Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: May 31, 2007
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Women's Education

Med_classroom Women's education refers to those issues surrounding education that are influenced by gender. These include access to education, access to educational resources, equality in teaching practices, training and skills sharing, and overcoming cultural, social, and economic barriers and discrimination that deny women an opportunity to learn.

Keywords
training, skills, access to education, literacy, basic education, enabling economic independence, equal access to jobs, rights to education, lifelong learning, leadership, barriers to education, socio-economic, cultural barriers, discrimination, gender, empower women

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Featured Organizations

Institute for Education of Women in Africa and the Diaspora IEWAD is committed to improving the well-being of girls and women in Africa via educational research, service, and advocacy. IEAWAD began with a group of African and American women in response to the recognition of the disadvantaged status that continues to dominate the lives of girls and women in Africa, in large part due to the denial of the right to education.

The Women`s Union achieves social justice for disadvantaged women, with the understanding that education and economic self-sufficiency set the stage for women and their families to thrive.

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Resources

Women Scholarship Fund

"The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all."

- Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's democracy movement

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