The evidence that educating girls creates healthier, wealthier, fairer, and more stable communities is overwhelming—so why isn’t every girl getting a quality education? The barriers, particularly for ...

Sadaf, age 18, joined the inaugural round of the Stealth Sisters program in July 2022, only months after the Taliban closed schools for girls in Afghanistan. Joining the program was an act of ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge.

Deprived of education for more than 600 days, Afghan girls seek refuge in online education even though access is scarce and difficult. On May 13, Afghan girls marked 600 days shut out of school. For ...

Girl With Grit runs workshops and programs that mix tool education with real encouragement, so students leave feeling capable ...

The stark truth emerges: the world has failed its girls. A staggering 110 million young women and girls, who should have been in classrooms, are not. Furthermore, a heartbreaking 340 million women and ...

All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes. As a result, girls and young women have a hard time exploring the subjects and picturing themselves in related roles. Some progress ...

While Sub-Saharan African countries have made progress on gender equality and significant strides in education, girls’ schooling remains a major challenge. Millions of young girls still lack the ...

Angeline Murimirwa at the TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, on April 24, 2025.Nina Westervelt for TIME Angeline Murimirwa, CEO of CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education), ...

Somaya Faruqi left Afghanistan two years ago, at age 19. Today she is seizing the opportunity to advocate for girls’ education on a global stage — and sharing messages the world needs to hear. Somaya ...

Calls have been made for government to double efforts in investing in girl-child education as the figures of out-of-school children refuses to drop and with 60 percent of girls not in school in the ...