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Throughout the developing world, girls face significant barriers to getting a quality education. Often, families living in poverty cannot afford to send all of their children to school and, when forced to choose, send their sons. Gender equity in education includes equal access to school and creating a school environment that has a safe, enabling environment for both girls and boys, equal opportunities in learning, and a focus on improving learning outcomes for basic literacy and numeracy as well as life skills. Educating girls and women is a powerful investment that benefits both individuals and society by unlocking the potential to improve health, nutrition, social justice, democracy, human rights, social cohesion, and economic prosperity for current and future generations.The Education 2030 agenda recognizes that gender equality requires an approach that ‘ensures that girls and boys, women and men not only gain access to and complete education cycles, but are empowered equally in and through education.