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Engineer Your Life view detail comment email this

This "guide to engineering for high school girls" provides reasons for entering the engineering field, profiles of women engineers, steps for exploring engineering study, and profiles of careers in fields such as aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering. Includes material for engineers, counselors, and parents, and a link to an engineering website for middle-school girls. From a coalition of engineering companies, organizations, and universities, produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering.
http://EngineerYourLife.org
Topics: K-12 Education, Science
Last updated Jun 3, 2009


The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) view detail comment email this

Website for this United Nations (UN) program whose goal is "to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education by 2005 and to ensure that by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to all levels of education." Features background materials, progress reports, photo essays, videos, articles about girls' education in specific countries, and related links.
http://www.ungei.org
Topics: K-12 Education, Women
Last updated Jan 24, 2006


The World Bank: Girls' Education view detail comment email this

This website discusses issues related to the education of girls and gender equity in education. Features an overview of the benefits of promoting increased girls' education in low-income countries, an outline of key issues (such as drop-out rates and poverty), data resources, publications, details about projects in specific countries, and related links. From the World Bank.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:20298916~menuPK:617572~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:282386,00.html
Topics: K-12 Education, Women
Last updated Jan 24, 2006




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