What’s Sex Got to Do with It? An Inconvenient Truth is Hiding Behind the Current Excitement about Educating Girls
Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Economic Recovery, Human Development, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2012
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).
Sub-Categories: Economic Recovery, Human Development, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)
Region: No Region
Year: 2012
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).
Executive 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.