5 facts you should know about girls' education

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Facts you should know about girls’ education5

Educated women are more likely to find work.

In Brazil 50% of womenwith primary educationare in work; this rises to

60% of women withsecondary education

#1fact

but

1 in 5ADOLESCENT GIRLS

are out of school

#2fact

young women living in low and lower-middle income countries

are unable to read a single sentence

100MILLION

OVER#3fact

SCHOOL

Between 2009-2013there were

attacks on schools in at least 70 different countries, with a number of these attacks being specifically directed at girls, parents and teachers

advocating for genderequality in education

#4fact

Today, a young girl in South Sudan is

3 times more likely

to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to complete primary

education

#5fact

“Sometimes people like to ask me, why should girls go to school? But I think the more important question is: why shouldn’t they have this right?”

Malala Yousafzai (2014)

Join the movement for girls’ rights

plan-international.org/joinus