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Communicating Gender in Education Development

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Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development

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While women’s access to education and health services has been improving in most countries, clear disparities between women and men remain, particularly in terms of poverty and political rights. Although women are estimated to constitute 40% of the global workforce, women earn far less than men for the same positions, and are much less likely to be among the global political and economic elite. When women do accrue their wealth separately from familial networks, typically they do so through fame enabled by their commodification in global media industries. But for the vast majority not privileged with fame or fortune, gender inequities in education remain, along with the resulting loss of subsequent social, cultural, and financial capitals.

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Wilkins, K.G. (2016). Communicating Gender in Education Development. In: Communicating Gender and Advocating Accountability in Global Development. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450487_4

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