Tools for Community
 David Kenneth
Waldman--Founder |
| Tools for Action |
| G.I.R.L. |
| Community Action |
Abstract
Computer-generated translations Spanish French German
What does it take to get girls in school and keep them there? Given historical, cultural traditions and current resource constraints in the Third World due to deterioration of terms of trade, debt burdens, diminishing foreign aid and investment especially in the poorest countries, very few resources have been allocated to the primary education of girl children.
Unequal access to education is one of the key elements that keep women from advancing toward equality. Women's empowerment through equal access to quality education for girl children will have many benefits. Prevailing macro models of economic development have failed to break the cycle of poverty by ignoring the particular role of educating the girl child. At present, there is an absence of any consistent organized political voice in the developed world for female children of the global south. Improvement in technology now allows the possibility to dramatically improve this situation and to address the needs of the education of girls in the developing world.
This paper proposes that female empowerment, education, development for girl children can result from the web-based education of teachers and children in the developed world. This would create an organized political voice for all children living in many different countries. A web-site can address gender inequality in education and go beyond that to build a movement that bridges the many different traditions, cultures and attitudes towards the girl child in the developing countries. The paper also assumes that, as more stakeholders become involved in the education of and advocacy for girl children, improvement will result.
