Sandra L. Stacki and Supriya Baily (Eds.): Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities

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In Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities, the editors, Sandra Stacki and Supriya Baily, have brought together chapters arguing that adolescent girls are not receiving the same educational rights as adolescent boys because of the failure to consider many factors like the challenges that exist on many fronts, the issues of power, and privilege. To address the challenges and potential opportunities, the book discusses generally the challenges that exist for adolescent girls in the developing world, specifically adolescent girls between 10 and 15 years of age. The book is divided into four critical domains: structural, institutional, psychological and social, and communal and cultural. Every chapter includes more than one domain and approaches them as overlapping and interconnected. In all four sections, the authors describe policy maker, teacher, government, and non-governmental organization attempts to address the challenges that adolescent girls’ may face. In addition, the authors provide suggestions and recommendations on how to reduce the gap of inequality between adolescent girls and boys. The book specifically points out the girls’ inequality in the educational context in different locations around the word, and seeks solutions and recommendations to improve their lives. …