Education plays a crucial role in promoting gender equality. Gender equality in education increasingly features as a key concern in international declarations and national policy commitments. Equal educational opportunities for all have been the major concern of well-meaning individuals in Nigeria and across the world. Education is crucial for promoting gender equality by providing individuals with knowledge, skills and values to challenge gender stereotypes and promoting equal rights. This includes equal access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as the ability to live free from gender-based violence and discrimination. As a result, educators, administrators and policy makers are poised to disseminate gender equity through policy provision and advocacy that encourage functional education at different levels of education. Inequalities are expressed through the selection of educational content, the application of methodological strategies, selection of teaching resources, interpersonal relationships, specific task assignments, or even seating choices within the classroom. These ongoing gender-related issues drive the need for teachers to receive specific and transversal training in this area. Such trainings should be aimed at revealing gender relations as a type of power relationship for the promotion of social change.

• EPD research examines the role of education in promoting education, gender equity and empowerment using critical indicators such as enrollment and graduation rate at the primary, secondary and tertiary institution in Nigeria.
• The Division will investigate the complications around translating gender equality policy between the global, national and local contexts.
• EPD will take a special interest in the development of indicators around gender equality in education, aware both of their strengths and weaknesses.