(15 seconds) In many developing-country schools, gender inequities result in girls dropping out. Population Council research and resulting programs are helping girls stay in school, improve their opportunities, and delay marriage

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(30 seconds) Education, particularly women’s education, improves health, life expectancy, and economic development, while it reduces child marriage and child pregnancy. But Population Council studies have shown that gender inequities in many developing-country schools lead girls to drop out. Population Council research and resulting programs are helping girls stay in school, improve their opportunities, and delay marriage.

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Population Council: Research that makes a difference (listen)

(60 seconds) Education, particularly women’s education, provides substantial health and social benefits. It improves health, life expectancy, and economic development, while it reduces child marriage and child pregnancy. Formal schools are the primary setting in which most young people acquire the productive skills needed for adulthood. In addition, the school is the most important institution outside the family involved in socializing young people into all dimensions of adult roles and responsibilities.

Researchers at the Population Council have found that in addition to socioeconomic factors that cause children to leave school early, gender inequities in some developing-country schools lead children, particularly girls, to drop out. The Population Council has established pilot scholarship and livelihoods programs designed to help girls stay in school, improve their opportunities, and delay marriage.

For more information, visit popcouncil.org/now.
Population Council: Research that makes a difference (listen)