The following details have been noted in relation to educational backwardness Women's education levels are lower than men's.

In 2004, 54.4 per cent of higher education enrolments were female, as were 48 per cent of enrolments in the vocation, education and training sector.

Overall, the country's education system has been feminized, and female teachers predominate in education organizations (80.6 ).

About 48 of women and 64 of men have some sort of primary education only 2 of women and 5 of men have secondary education.

Folks like Ann Cotton, who started a group called CAMFED in Africa, because she felt girls' education was lagging.

Concerning education, about 48 of the female population and 27 of the male one do not have any level of education.

To eradicate gender biased schooling and encourage women and girls to participate fully in educational systems.

All teachers and administrative heads (Principals and head teachers) in female educational institutions at all levels are female.

The general education level of women in the labor force is higher than that of men.

Currently, more women reach higher levels of education than men.

Women, educated or not, used to be orientated to marriage, housekeeping and raising of children.

Women who have completed secondary or tertiary education are more likely to enter and remain in the labor market than their less educated counterparts. The labor participation rate for women with post secondary education is 64 , far exceeding the 35 rate for those with only a primary or middle school education.

The gross enrolment rate at the primary level of urban females was 87 while that of rural females was 52.

The gross enrolment rate for middle level was 68 while that for rural females was 21.

It also assisted in drafting a national girls' education policy and in training female teachers to address gender disparities in education.

The right to education means that an individual has the possibility to receive education, to provide it for his children and to be free in the choice of that education.

Information on the problems of education, gender and equality for women

Uneducated women have almost four times as many children as women with university, technical or higher education.

There was no gender disparity in education and primary education was compulsory for both boys and girls.

The participation of women in secondary education had increased from 33 to 37 , and as far as university education is concerned, the percentage of women had increased from 31 to 37 .

The Ministry of Women s Affairs had emphasized the importance of education and the acquisition of skills for women and girls.

16. Reaffirms the importance of schooling and education, in particular for girls and young women, and recognizes the value of all forms of life long learning, including formal education and training and non formal education

The retention index at the secondary level is higher for females (93.6 per cent) than it is for males (90.1 per cent).

During his conversations about the resumption of female education, the Special Rapporteur had the impression that if it were to resume, women would be encouraged to pursue medical studies only.

Sex and Family Life Education

Education was mandatory for both boys and girls from age six, and a law had been passed to expand pre school education.

Girls apos education

Lastly, in connection with the student population in basic secondary and vocational secondary education it is important to mention the quality of the education from the standpoints of gender and equality for women.

The chairman indicated that basic education was provided to women at home and that males were taking care of women who did not need employment and higher education.

In recent years, women apos s educational level has tended to be higher than men apos s.

On the one hand was my mother, a well educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

Weak development of mechanisms for sharing health risks.

A study of management culture in relation to senior appointments in education, sponsored by the Gender Equality Unit of the Department of Education and Science, was already bearing fruit the new Secretary General of the Department was a woman.

Please indicate whether information on family planning and sex education is provided in schools to girls and boys as part of the training courses on health care (para.

(d) Educ Mujer, in the Ministry of Education and Culture, through which plans are developed to reduce sexism in education.

This probably has more to do with the rising level of education among women (who tend to stay in education longer), than with any reluctance on their part to enter the labour market at a younger age.

In compulsory and secondary schools, the education received by males and females is the same in terms of programmes, curricula and textbooks.

It had focused particularly on education, achieving parity between boys and girls at all levels, and having even a larger proportion of males than females at the higher level.

242. It is also clear, despite improvements in some female education indicators, that generally speaking women apos s education levels are low (basically full or incomplete primary schooling), while rural women rank below the national average for all women.

In that connection, the Research Institute of Social and Gender Studies, with the assistance of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, has performed a gender analysis of teaching environment and has developed a manual for gender education and a textbook for higher education institutions called The Bases of Gender Education.

Founded the Women apos s Education Department, Ministry of Education Sana apos a, 1976

To help women improve their education, many central and local agencies have applied higher additional allowance rates during the education period for women than for men.

Girls' education

Education of girls.

Research and consultation to document the issues of equality between women and men in the education sector with respect to the State examinations in secondary education review of the Sex Education Programme of the Ministry of Education systematization of information relating to the training of teachers in the subject of gender discrimination in schools and analysis of the National Development Plan to identify the strategic areas of education policies for gender equality.