Women’s Day Education Tribute in Free Pictures

We love giving you open content pictures, and International Women’s Day is as good an excuse as any. In fact, it’s such an important day that we’re going to include some facts and quotes about female education and empowerment along with images of women and girls learning all over the world. You can see many more statistics about education for development here.

Informal school, Swaziland

Post-primary education increases a woman’s likelihood of getting a formal wage-earning job by 26%.

-Shackey (2005)

portrait of a genius

Overall, women receive higher returns to their schooling investments. The returns to primary education are higher for men (20% vs. 13%), but women experience higher returns to secondary education (18% vs. 14%)

-Psacharopoulos & Patrinos (2002)

Supporting healthy, educated youth in Nigeria

 . . . a good education is another name for happiness.

-Ann Plato

Adorable African Girl Holding a Blank Blackboard

Women have been earning more bachelor’s degrees than men since 1982 and they have been
earning more master’s degrees than men since 1981.

-National Center for Education Statistics

Sign language

The only thing better than education is more education.

-Agnes E. Benedict


Aschiana in Mazar-e-Sharif

Differences in employment rates drop as female education increases.

-EU Satistics

Ethiopia

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

-Margaret Mead

School Photo 1930s

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

—Elizabeth Blackwell (first female physician)


16 January 2007

Education empowers women to engage in family planning: Women with no schooling have around 5.9 children by ages 40-49. Primary education lowers this to 4.8, post-primary education drops it further to 3.5

– Shackey (2005)

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Written by Michael Jones