Pandemic risks undoing progress at achieving gender parity

School closures caused by COVID-19 have interrupted education for 1.6 billion children—and there is far less chance of girls returning to the classroom than boys. The picture is alarming.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his Speech from the Throne, identified supporting developing countries on their economic recoveries and resilience as one of his government's priorities.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Bill Chambers

October 12, 2020

Sunita is 16. She has been married for four years. At the age of 12, she became a child bride—forced into marriage and out of education by her parents in the Indian state of Bihar. “It felt terrible because I was still very ...

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