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Committee: General Assembly GA RES 53/41
Topic: Gender Inequality in Education
The General Assembly,
Bearing in mind that one of the purposes of the United
Nations, as stated in Articles 1 and 55 of the Charter, is to promote universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction of any kind, including distinction as to sex,
Affirming that women and men should participate equally in social, economic, and political development and should contribute equally to such development and should share equally in improved conditions of life,
Noting with approval the gains made by many countries, organizations, and individuals in eliminating discrimination
against women during the UN Decade for Women (1975-1985);
Noting with regret that sexual discrimination persists
in many parts of the Developing World, and in the Middle East in
particular,
Firmly believing that inequality between the sexes is a
major reason for underdevelopment,
Recalling the World Bank study which found that women with ten year’s schooling want on average three fewer children than do women with no education,
1. Calls upon all nations to devote equal funding to
educating both sexes, and that this equality be reached by
the year 2003;
2. Condemns the policy followed by many nations (such as the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan and Saudi Arabia) which provide primary education to both sexes, but gear their secondary and/or post-secondary education to the male sex;
3. Endorses co-education as the best way to insure that both sexes receive equal education;
4. Further calls upon all nations to give both sexes access to the same curricula, the same teaching materials and the same career planning in school;
5. Strongly advocates a position that women must be allowed to have control over their own bodies, and that to achieve this goal, nations should initiate sex education programs which incorporate birth control information.