Losing Out: Barriers to Girls’ Education in Tajikistan

Barriers of poverty and a revival of conservative social norms in Tajikistan mean that girls are increasingly losing out in access to education, explain Zarinam Turdieva and Maria Hellborg. The quality of education in Tajikistan has been in decline since independence and the country’s ensuing civil war (1992-1997), which saw an estimated one-fifth of schools […]
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