What’s Sex Got to Do with It? An Inconvenient Truth is Hiding Behind the Current Excitement about Educating Girls

  • Kavita N. Ramdas

Summary

This article challenges the idea that educating girls is a cure-all for all ills facing society, from the eradication of HIV/AIDS to the alleviation of poverty across the globe. Instead, the author posits that societies cannot root out violence against women and encourage gender equity without also educating women about their bodies, their sexuality, and contraception.

Citation

Ramdas, Kavita N. “What’s Sex Got to Do with It? An Inconvenient Truth is Hiding Behind the Current Excitement about Educating Girls.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 10, no. 3 (2012).

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