Africa: Long way to gender parity in education, says UNESCO report

Gender parity in education remains a distant prospect in 54 countries, including 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as India and Pakistan, despite worldwide focus on Education for All, specially on girls’ education. Girls continue to face “sharp discrimination in access to schooling” in a majority of developing countries, even though slow but significant progress was achieved in the 1990’s, says the Global Education for All monitoring report for 2003/4.