World Bank

Tackling the reverse gender gap in the Caribbean

There is a reverse gender gap in the Caribbean. This points to the need for increased efforts to keep boys in school and engage dropouts to return to school. The World Bank’s updated gender strategy ...
Houston Chronicle

Gender gap in Texas higher education has been widening for decades — and it’s gaping in San Antonio

Leaders in education have been worried for years about a growing gender gap in college enrollment, a trend highly visible in San Antonio. Texas A&M University-San Antonio reports its student ...
The Harvard Crimson

Stanford Professor Says The Gender Gap in Test Scores Widened After Covid-19 at Ed School Talk

Standardized test scores dropped nationwide after the pandemic, but Reardon’s research found that scores for female students ...
webtv.un.org

PGA Remarks at the CSW Side Event, “Closing the gender gap in education: How to address long-term barriers and emerging challenges in a world of complex crises?”

Thank you for joining this special event on Closing the gender gap in education. I wish to thank my esteemed colleague, Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women and a tireless champion for the ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Equal education, unequal pay: Why is there still a gender pay gap in 2024?

Not even education can close the pay gap that persists between women and men, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. CHICAGO (AP) — Not even education can close the pay gap that persists ...

For the first time since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is widening again — experts say these 3 economic forces are pushing women’s earnings backward

According to the latest Census Bureau data, women earned just 80.9 cents for every dollar men made in 2024, down from 84 cents in 2022. That marks two consecutive years of decline. In fact, it’s the ...
Washington Examiner

Closing the education gender gap: More male educators needed

The piece reports that only 3% of kindergarten teachers are male. Thomas S. Dee, a Stanford University professor who has long studied the effect of teacher demographics on student outcomes, is cited ...
journalgazette

Education's widening gender gap has implications for all

As an educator and a speech and debate coach, one of the things I look forward to each year is scanning the full-page spreads in the paper of the pictures of the top graduates of area schools. I enjoy ...
Inside Higher Ed

A Wake-Up Call to the Student Affairs Profession About Male Students

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Men’s participation in postsecondary education and their completion rates have been front and ...

The gender pay gap looks different depending where you are on the income ladder

We found that differences in work history – particularly full-time employment – account for nearly 29% of the gender pay gap ...
Opinion

Bridging the gender gap through CSR programmes

Robust monitoring and assessment help in measuring the effectiveness of CSR efforts, such as an increase/decrease in school enrollment, employment generation, and improvements in income - among others ...