High school, University in Ivory Coast: Where are the girls?
Public issue of 7 billion neighbors in amphi A of Houphouët-Boigny University, in Cocody September 8, 2021 © RFI / Juliette Brault
By: Amélie Beaucour
1 min
For several years, Côte d'Ivoire has made many efforts to promote girls' education.
The compulsory schooling policy for all children aged 6 to 16 has helped to facilitate their inclusion.
If young Ivorians have better access to school, gender equality and their maintenance throughout the school career are still far from being achieved.
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Almost equally in primary school, girls are only 30% in college and gradually evaporate to be frankly in the minority on the benches of universities, all fields combined.
School failures, early marriages or pregnancies partly explain the dropout of young girls.
Despite the “zero pregnancy in school” program, there are still between 3000 and 5000 cases each year;
the covid-19 pandemic did not help to improve the situation.
Between ambitions and pitfalls, what hopes for girls on the road to graduation?
Program recorded in Abidjan on the occasion of FEMUA
With :
Josey
, Ivorian singer.
His new album Cocktail was released on May 1, 2021.
Show in Niamey (Niger) on September 11, 2021 and in Europe touring Europe in early October 2021
Zamblé Théodore Goin Bi
, Sociologist of Education at
Péléforo Gon Coulibaly University of Korhogo in Côte d'Ivoire
Julie Kone
, president of the
NGO Cefci
(Women's Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Côte d'Ivoire)
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