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Educating Young Citizens: Gender Equality and Global Democratic Issues
Madeleine Arnot*
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
—Kofi Annan 1998, quoted in WBR (2007: 183)
A society that cuts off its female youth severs its lifeline. The initial focus in this chapter is on women’s education. I am delighted to be able to focus on this topic here because, for the last 30 years, I have been thinking about the ways in which the theme of female education—the education of girls and women—relates to that of democracy. The conclusion to which I have come ...
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