5 facts you should know about girls' education
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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
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)
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