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The Girl Effect

Heather Nagel-Doughtie

Learn  - –  Change  - – Share

http://www.girleffect.org  is an amazing site that visually shows how powerful social and economic change can happen when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society.

Consider this: 

• Research in developing countries has shown the children of educated women are healthier, and more likely to be in school themselves.
• An extra year of primary school raises a girl’s lifetime wages by 10 – 20%.
• A woman or girl will reinvest 90% of her income into her family.  A man will reinvest 30 – 40%. 
• An extra year of secondary school raises a girl’s lifetime wages by 15 – 25%.
• For every development dollar spent, girls receive less than one half of one cent.
• When girls have received 7 or more years of education, they marry 4 years later and have 2.2 fewer children. 

Download The Girl Effect Fact Sheet.