The last water blog touched on how water issues disproportionately affect women. This week, we are going to look at education for women - and some of the other issues that relate to that topic.
First, this link, shares one woman's story about going back to school and her experience. It also shares many great statistics on the benefits of providing women with an education. Such as, "If a girl in the developing world receives 7 or more years of education, she marries 4 years later and has 2.2 fewer children." This two outcomes of huge long term benefit, less violence against women, greater ability to earn for her family, helps control population growth, women marrying later tend to have children later - when their bodies are actually developed enough to bear children- all of this can mean lower maternal mortality rates. Needless to say, girl's education = good :)
The Girl Effect is the phenomenon by which providing education to a girl, the outcomes not only of that young women but future generations can improve exponentially. This effect is exactly what we will enjoy learning about this week :) Here are the basics (in video form).
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