Educational Gender Gap in Eritrea

As stated by UNESCO in its 2001 regional report on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), one of the key ways of meeting the challenges of the 21stcentury is to guarantee the benefits of education for all by ensuring that education systems work in an equitable, efficient and effective manner. The effort to provide an equitable education to all students has led to extensive re-

search on gender differences on enrolment. In Eritrea, although progress in enrolment has been made over the past decades,the share of female enrolment is still lower than boys (UNESCO 2001b)   read more