The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8, “Empower Rural Women,” sheds light on the struggle that many poor, rural women face in completing even the most basic education — a finding that is backed up by new data analysis by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team.
This is true even for countries that have made strong progress in expanding access to primary education. In Kenya, for example, if you are rich your chances of getting at least four years of schooling are extremely high, whether you live in an urban or a rural area, and whether you are male or female. But if you are poor and live in a rural area, it’s a very different story, and even more so if you are female.
Percentage of Kenyan 17-22 year olds with less than four years of schooling, 2009 Of poor, rural females in Kenya aged 17 to 22, 36% have less than four years in school, compared with 14% of poor, rural males, according to updated analysis for the Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database, which will be released with the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report in September. Over 70% of the world’s very poor live in rural areas, and the population of the developing world is still more rural than urban, according to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, suggesting that a large number of women face such discrimination.
The rural disadvantage is particularly strong in certain groups. Many pastoralist communities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, for example, face extreme educational disadvantage. They often rely heavily on boys for tending cattle and girls for domestic duties, so education loses out. In the North Eastern Province of Kenya which is predominantly pastoralist, only 30% of boys and 20% of girls enrol in primary school, according to the 2010 Global Monitoring Report.
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