Women in development (2020), para. 52

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  1. Urges all Governments to eliminate discrimination against women and girls in the field of education and to promote and respect their right to education, ensure their safe and equal access to and encourage their participation in education, throughout the life cycle and at all levels, especially for those who have been left furthest behind, and address gender disparities, including by investing in public education systems and infrastructure, eliminating discriminatory laws and practices, providing universal access to inclusive and equitable quality education, including free and compulsory primary and secondary education, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, eliminating female illiteracy and promoting financial and digital literacy, ensuring that women and girls have equal access to career development, training, scholarships and fellowships, adopting positive actions to build women ’s and girls’ leadership skills and influence and supporting women and girls in diversifying their educational and occupational choices in emerging fields, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics and information and communications technology, to strive to ensure the completion of early childhood, primary and secondary education and expand vocational and technical education for all women and girls, and foster, as appropriate, intercultural and multilingual education for all, and to address negative social norms and gender stereotypes in education systems, including in curricula and teaching methodologies, that devalue girls’ education and prevent women and girls from having access to, completing and continuing their education;
Document body
  • United Nations General Assembly
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Document year
  • 2020
Paragraph number
52