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.
Post-primary education increases a woman’s likelihood of getting a formal wage-earning job by 26%.
-Shackey (2005)
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)
. . . a good education is another name for happiness.
-Ann Plato
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
The only thing better than education is more education.
-Agnes E. Benedict
Differences in employment rates drop as female education increases.
-EU Satistics
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
-Margaret Mead
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)
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