Village near
Women teachers are in foreground.
Older girl students are in back.
School operates on three shifts per day.
Electric power is inadequate as is heating.
There is no separate women's restroom.
No safe drinking water is available at the school.
This attached photograph is from a site visit with the UN
Special Rapporter
on the Right to Education, before the WUNRN-MODAR
Conference on Gender
Inequality in Education in
UNICEF Qualitative Survey on Issues in Girls' Education
in
In-Depth Analysis of the Reasons Girls Drop Out of School
in
Among the Survey results were:
*40% of girls do not believe that education would impact
the quality of
their lives.
*57% of parents think that it is more important to
educate boys than girls.
*The number of girls dropping out of school increases
correspondingly with
grade levels.
The most recent Government of Tajikistan Report to the
United Nations CEDAW
Committee - on implementation of the UN Convention on the
Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women - stated:
"The main reasons for the decline in educational
achievements for girls (in
teachers, and a stereotypical gender perception of the
value and role of
women and men, which, for girls, results in a lower
probability of finding a
job"
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