女童教育不仅直接关系到初等教育的普及,而且对经济发展和人口质量有着显而易见的影响。1990年3月在泰国召开的世界全民教育大会上,促进女童教育问题被列为本世纪末要实现的三大基本教育目标之一。会议提出,“首要任务就是要保证女童和妇女的入学机会,改善教育质量,并消除一切阻碍她们积极参与教育的因素。对教育中任何有关性别的陈规陋习都必须加以铲除”。 Girls’ education is not only directly related to the popularization of primary education, but also has a clear impact on economic development and the quality of the population. At the World Conference on Education for All, held in March 1990 in Thailand, promoting girls’ education was listed as one of the three basic education goals to be achieved by the end of this century. The meeting proposed that “the primary task is to guarantee girls’ and women’s access to school, improve the quality of education and eliminate all factors that impede their active participation in education, and any stereotypes about gender in education must be eradicated.”