Youth Challenging Gender Norms & Inequities
Educate! engages young women and men, together.
Participating in Educate! improves a young woman’s skills and educational attainment, as well as outcomes related to gender norms and equity for young women and men, like agency in family planning and decreased domestic violence.
Young women report fewer incidences of domestic violence and are more likely to claim a role in household decision-making, like whether to work outside of the home.
Young men are more likely to recognize women’s value, roles in society, and right to safe and consensual sex.
Young men and women delay family formation, have fewer children, and express more egalitarian views after participating.
Results from follow-on Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) which measured the impact of the Educate! Experience on students 3.5 years after graduating from secondary.
Carney, Dana, et al. (2019). “Educate! Evaluation: Four-year Follow-up Report.”
These effects are comparable to interventions that purely target gender-related outcomes.
Educate! systematically gives young women and men the space and tools to tackle these barriers, improve their own livelihoods, and become drivers of development.
Educate! participants are more likely to feel as though they can determine whether they work outside of home (28%, women), to delay family formation (21.2%, overall), to feel as though a husband who makes joint decisions with this wife is respected (5.6%, women), and to feel optimistic about society valuing men and women equally (5.5%, men).
Results from: Carney, Dana, et al. (2019). “Educate! Evaluation: Four-year Follow-up Report.”
“The Educate! program improves a student’s ability to set goals, as well as their ability to organize themselves and others to achieve these goals.”
- Paul Gertler, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley, Globally recognized expert in impact evaluation
Meet Adeline
Flipping through the pages of a newspaper, Rwandan secondary student Adeline was captivated by an article about the first female commercial airline pilot in Rwanda, Esther Mbabazi.
Deeply inspired by Esther’s journey, Adeline soon set her sights on flight school. “Why can’t I be the second?” she wondered.
Today, Adeline participates in the Educate! Exchange and dedicates time to courses that can help her excel in the male-dominated field of aviation. Participating in the Educate! Student Business Club has given her confidence and has supported her in creating the future she envisions for herself. With practical skills and hands-on experience under her belt, she hopes to obtain a scholarship to attend university and someday flight school.
Adeline now stands confidently, leveraging her knowledge and skills to challenge the status quo and break down gender barriers.
Educate! participants are breaking barriers to success
Compared to their peers, female Educate! participants are:
7.9%
more likely to graduate from secondary,
enough to virtually close the gender gap
25%
more likely to enroll in university
22%
more likely to choose a business or STEM degree
Results from female subsample of our 3.5-year follow-on RCT: Carney, Dana, et al. (2019). “Educate! Evaluation: Four-year Follow-up Report.”