Gender Equality : Meps Point to Educational Discrimination against Young Women

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"Education and training of girls and women is a human right and an essential element for the full enjoyment of all other social, economic, cultural and political rights," says the European Parliament in an own-initiative report drafted by Vera Flasarova (GUE/NGL, Czech Republic). The MEPs believe a range of measures are needed to tackle educational discrimination between men and women in Europe.

In the European Union, women make less progress overall than men through the education system, including lifelong learning, on account of diverse gender-related restrictions, say MEPs. The rapporteur lists a number of barriers: economic factors in socially disadvantaged families, …