Girl's and Women's Empowerment

Provided by: Population Connection |Published on: February 4, 2025

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Synopsis

This article details the need for gender equality in education, social structures, and healthcare, and an end to childhood marriage, reducing pregnancy-related deaths in young girls, and eliminating gender-based violence to address sustainable development goals.
Students will learn that female empowerment and gender equality lead to prosperity, success, and sustainability.

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Subjects: Social Studies, Civics, Health

Authors: Population Connection

Region: Global

Languages: English

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Positives

This article uses maps to help highlight statistics mentioned in the text.
The article is brief and broken into sections that make it easy to highlight the key points.

Prerequisites

This article does mention female genital mutilation and notes that the number one cause of dealth for girls aged 15-19 is complications from child birth.
It may help students to understand the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as the article references them often.

Differentiation & Implementation

The video Women and Girls, You Are Part of the Climate Solution, this presentation by Population Connection, and this TED talk can help illustrate the connection between female empowerment and climate change.
Students can isolate an issue in the article to research further, such as girls' education, fertility rate, or underage marriage. Students can then write a report about their findings, making sure they include the ways the issues intersect.
Students may want to research recent legislation surrounding access to healthcare for women and what they can do to help empower women and girls in their country and around the world.
Have students research and present a summary of the many statistics presented in this article from a social justice perspective, such as the percentage of unplanned pregnancies and inability to choose, the barriers girls face to attend school, the number of girls married before age 18, and the rate of gender-based violence.

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