Despite the great expansion of educational opportunities worldwide
during the past thirty years, women in most developing countries
still receive less schooling than men. Yet there is compelling
evidence that the education of girls and women promotes both
individual and national well-being. An example is the strong link
between a woman's education and her employment and income. Another
is that better-educated women bear fewer children, who have better
chances of surviving infancy, of being healthy, and of attending
school. When women are deprived of an education, individuals,
families, and children, as well as the societies in which they
live, suffer. When women are adequately educated everyone benefits.
Why, then, do women in much of the developing world continue to
lag behind men in measures of educational attainment, including
literacy, length of schooling, and educational achievement? This
volume begins to address this puzzle by examining how educational
decisions are made. This is done by exploring the costs and
benefits, both public and private, that determine how much families
invest in educating their daughters and their sons. The volume
illustrates the importance of economic and cultural differences
among developing countries in explaining variations in the manner
in which these costs and benefits influence schooling choices.
The book brings together information on women's education and
development, reviews research results for each developing region,
identifies gaps in current knowledge, and discusses problems of
methodology. The contributors assess the strategies that have been
used to improve schooling for girls and women and point the way to
an agenda for research, policy, and programs. The study concludes
with a challenge to researchers, policymakers, and development
specialists to ensure that during the next century women in the
developing world do not remain educationally disadvantaged..
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