Pakistan 🇵🇰
Although women’s education has been a right since 1976, Pakistan’s very low women’s enrollment rate in tertiary education is only 12% – half the average of Southeast Asian countries.
U-GO Scholars: 334
Although women’s education has been a right since 1976, Pakistan’s very low women’s enrollment rate in tertiary education is only 12% – half the average of Southeast Asian countries. Pakistan ranks 142nd out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report for 2023. Extremely low university matriculation rates for eligible women are a large contributing factor.
U-GO works with Developments in Literacy, an education non-profit with a 27 year history, to provide a pipeline for advancement for qualified young women from low-income backgrounds. Thus far, U-GO and DIL have provided 344 scholarships to women with high academic potential, deep financial need, and great motivation.
