Gender & Women’s Studies Colloquium Series

Over the past three decades, governments and international development organizations have largely converged around the argument that promoting girls’ education is both an essential equity issue, and also a smart investment for the girl, her family, her country, and the world. More-educated girls are expected to accomplish/embody a broad range of development goals, from having smaller families, to staying HIV-free, to being better protectors of the environment, to being more productive farmers...