The World Bank says economic growth is boosted when girls receive an education....recent research by the World Bank shows economic growth is boosted by the number of girls who complete their secondary education and go on to earn higher wages.
Plan chief executive Ian Wishart says the report, called Because I am a Girl, shows many countries still have the attitude that girls are not as important as boys.
"The stats show that the extra year of study of school results in 10 to 20 per cent higher income," he said.
"If you start multiplying that through five or six years of high school, it has a dramatic effect.
"And the other thing that happens is a young women who gets a fair job with a decent wage will invest 90 per cent of that in her family and children, compared to just 30 or 40 per cent for men, I'm afraid. "What that results in is her children will almost certainly be well educated and live outside of poverty."
...the message is if you're operating offshore, make sure that you have policies that encourage equal participation of girls and boys, or young women and young men, in your business, and make sure your supply chains do the same," he said.
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