This paper aims to review the present situation of the participation of children in elementary education in India, with a special focus on gender equity.

There are many indicators one could choose to measure educational attainment, including: high school graduation, preparation for college, immediate transition to college, college enrollment, persistence and degree attainment, degrees conferred.. This report examines these indicators to determine where males are underperforming and, more importantly, which groups of males are keeping pace with their female peers and which are falling behind.

This monograph reviews the ways that girls are treated in general, and the nature of mathematics education, in today’s school, in order to identify ways to increase both their interest and achievement in mathematics.

This paper suggests that the term 'gender equity' is nearing the end of its usefulness as a strategy for promoting social change, precisely because of the ways in which it is currently being mobilized. The authors demonstrate that gender equity in current parlance can be seen to operate in an endless reiterative binary logic, based on the idea of a finite amount of opportunity that must be dealt out turn by turn to students as consumers.

This is a comprehensive report by Plan International, on the benefits of educating girls. The report focuses on the global economy and warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year.

Sending girls to school is foremost a matter of equity, but educating girls is not just a moral imperative. There are also economic benefits of girls’ education. When girls are not educated, a society’s productivity and ultimately, its rate of growth are constrained. This factsheet provides information about the challenges faced by women and girls across the world in accessing education.