Studies on Girls' Education in Developing Countries

特别是近年来，国际和国家组织以及教育和发展领域的研究人员都强调了妇女教育对第三世界国家社会和经济发展的重要性。最近的研究表明，教育给妇女带来的经济和社会回报是巨大的，总体上可能比给男子带来的回报更大。然而，在世界上大多数社会中，女性的教育水平低于男性。大多数教育决策者基于道德理由都认为这种教育上的性别差距应该消除。撇开这种平等论点的力量不谈，这个研究项目的许多研究都指出了妇女教育对社会经济发展的重要性。本研究项目的另一个主要发现是，女童教育的状况反映了社会的性别状况，因为女童教育的发展取决于每个民族和每个地区的文化状况。即使在一个入学率性别差距很小的国家，与男孩和男人的教育相比，女孩和妇女的教育也存在严重的质量问题。

The importance of women's education for the social and economic development of the Third World countries has been emphasized, especially in recent years, by international and national organizations, and researchers in the fields of education and development. Recent research suggests that the economic and social returns to education for women are substantial and on the whole probably greater than those for men. However, women's educational levels are lower than men's in most societies all over the world. Most educational decision makers share the belief on ethical grounds that this educational gender gap should be eliminated. The strength of this equity argument aside, many studies of this research project have pointed out the importance of women's education for socioeconomic development.Another main finding of this research project is that status of girls' education reflects gender situation of the society because the development of girls' education depends on cultural situation of each ethnic group and each region. And that even in a country, where the gender gap in educational enrolment is small, there exist serious qualitative problems surrounding education for girls and women compared to boys' and men's.