Education as the pathway towards gender equality / Azza Karam.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Karam, Azza, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Local Subjects:

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 pages)

Contained In:

UN Chronicle Vol. 50, no. 4, p. 31-36 50:4<31 1564-3913

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2014.

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text file

Summary:

Amartya Sen, often referred to as the father of the concept of ‘human development’, reminds us of a quote by H.G. Wells, where he said that “human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe”. Sen maintains that “if we continue to leave vast sections of the people of the world outside the orbit of education, we make the world not only less just, but also less secure”. To Sen, the gender aspect of education is a direct link between illiteracy and women’s security.

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