Gender and Education for All 2003/2004: The Leap to Equality - Education for All Global Monitoring Report

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All countries have pledged to eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005. This was agreed at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000, a year when a significant majority of the 104 million children not in primary school were girls and almost two-thirds of the 860 million non-literate people were women. But ensuring the right to learn is not just a question of numbers. It is part of a much broader agenda to achieve gender equality so that girls and boys, women and men, enjoy the same learning opportunities and outcomes, personally, professionally and politically. This intention is enshrined in the 2015 goal to achieve gender equality which covers rights to, within and through education. This new edition of the "EFA Global Monitoring Report paints a picture of where countries stand in their efforts to achieve these goals, highlights innovative and best practice, suggests priorities for national strategies and looks at how the international community is meeting its commitments toward EFA.