ELIMINATION OF GENDER DISPARITY IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

To empower women economically and socially through education: increase the number of girls in Ghana attaining a minimum of senior high school education by 10% by 2015 and by 50% by 2024.

This objective is linked to MDG 3 and is aimed at achieving the millennium development goal 3 in Ghana in the short term and in the long term empower women and girls because it is believed that education is life; and in educating a woman you give that woman a life worth living, a dignified life.

Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015

For girls in some regions, education remains elusive Poverty is a major barrier to education, especially among older girls In every developing region except the CIS, men outnumber women

in paid employment

Women are largely relegated to more vulnerable forms of employment

Women are over-represented in informal employment, with its lack of benefits and security

Top-level jobs still go to men — to an overwhelming degree Women are slowly rising to political power, but mainly when

boosted by quotas and other special measures

3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary and secondary education in Ghana – see excel sheet and graph below.

The data below shows that over a period of 40 years, the proportion of girls to boys in primary and secondary school is still not 1:1. Boys currently outnumber girls in school.

Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education (%)Country or AreaYear Ratio of Girls to BoysGhana 2011 96.38 Ghana 2009 95.86 Ghana 2008 95.82 Ghana 2007 95.46 Ghana 2006 94.46 Ghana 2005 92.52 Ghana 2004 91.20 Ghana 2003 94.35 Ghana 2002 91.89 Ghana 2001 91.67 Ghana 2000 90.20 Ghana 1999 89.11 Ghana 1990 77.96 Ghana 1989 77.65 Ghana 1988 76.57 Ghana 1987 75.50 Ghana 1985 73.95 Ghana 1984 74.67 Ghana 1983 75.03

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The movie below shows the opening of a ceremony to encourage girls to stay in school.

Organized by alumni of the school Shows students from St. Rose’s Senior

High School, Ghana.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECtzJySnROw

UNhttp://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/gender.shtml World Bank / UN http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?

q=girl+education+in+ghana&d=WDI&f=Indicator_Code%3aSE.ENR.PRSC.FM.ZS%3bCountry_Code%3aGHA

Picture on first page only: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACR829.pdf

All other pictures and video are mine.