ABSTRACT

This chapter enables the participants to understand that every woman and girl has the right to education and assess the importance of education in women's lives. It defines illiteracy and functional illiteracy and analyzes their impact on the lives of women and girls. The chapter examines the role that governments, community leaders, and women themselves can play in promoting women and girls full access to education. It defines the gender-role stereotyping in education and strategize ways to combat it. The chapter identifies the link between education and other human rights and describes the ways to promote the right to education in their community. The Beijing Platform for Action, recognizes education as a basic human right and an essential tool for achieving more equal relations between women and men. It reduces the female illiteracy rate, especially among rural, migrant, refugee, internally displaced, and disabled women, to at least half the 1990 level.