Motivating female post-primary education in the Punjab

Motivating Female Post-Primary Education in the Punjab

By:
Jovera Shakeel
This large gap between female and male literacy, school enrolment, and completion is critical in many ways, but its economic angle requires special attention. Female education, though intrinsically necessary from a rights-based approach, is also instrumentally important because it affects economic growth. Gender inequality lowers the average level of human capital and economic growth.

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