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		Sites for Sore Eyes

March 1999 Insights Issue #29

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Sites for Sore Eyes

What support is there on the Web for policymakers whose goal is to banish gender gaps and bias from education? There are plenty of web-sites to choose from, reports BRIDGE (briefings on development and gender), an information and analysis service that aims to help development professionals integrate gender concerns into their work (http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge).

Unesco's Education Information Service at http://www.education.unesco.org/ provides an excellent gateway to on-line data sorted by gender, on enrolment, educational attainment and teaching staff. It also has news about women-targeted programmes, full text online reports on education policy issues and links to other sites.

Among other addresses with a global scope:

Unicef's world map of indicators at http://www.unicef.org reports sex differences in literacy rates, and primary and secondary school enrolment ratios

The World Bank's all-in GenderNet site http://www.worldbank.org/gender/opera/lolinks.htm#E outlines Bank education projects that incorporate gender. A good range of full-text on-line papers on access and equity is at http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/educ/edu_equi/access.htm

USAID's advanced basic literacy programme page http://www.info.usaid.gov/economic_growth links to a raft of publications about policies, strategies and activities for improving women's and girls' education in countries around the globe. Sites concentrating on specific regions include the following:

The Forum for African Women Educationalists site http://www.fawe.org provides breakdowns by gender of statistics plus information about gender-sensitive education policies and strategies.

http://www.cidi.oas.org/stromindice.htm The Inter-American Council for Integral Development's site offers full-text articles on gender and education in Latin America.

The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, hosted at http://www.bellanet.org/partners/adea lists an impressive array of publications available to order, including many from the African Academy of Sciences/FEMED Project.

In Asia, the Literacy Resource Centre's site http://www.accu.or.jp/literacy/lrc/index.htm reports on literacy projects targeting women and girls in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Pakistan.

The journal Gender and Education mainly covers UK issues, but some articles touch on education policy in the South. There is a charge but a free sample copy is at http://www.carfax.co.uk/gee-ad.htm

Emma Bell

E-mail: bridge@ids.ac.uk

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