"When it comes to achievement gaps by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, we know that children from different groups are raised in different families and often attend different schools than peers from other groups, and that these differences in home and school experiences account for a large portion of the achievement gap. Gender gaps are particularly vexing because boys and girls are raised in the same families and attend the same schools as one another. "
Gender gaps either represent the differences in boys’ and girls’ abilities, or they reflect biases in how schools and families treat boys and girls that affect the different outcomes of each gender.
Poverty, geographical isolation, minority status, disability, early marriage and pregnancy, gender-based violence, and traditional attitudes about the status and role are many obstacles to overcome to promote gender equality in education.
In many societies, boys are seen as the ones who should be educated, while girls are not.
Gender inequality arises when one group is seen in a society as having more rights than the other.