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This report focuses on highlighting both progress and persistent challenges.It does so by analyzing the current situation of gender equality in education, including gender parity in participation, education quality, and outcomes, aswell as issues related to gender equality in which education plays an important role, suchas policies that disproportionately affect women, early and unintended pregnancy, child marriage, and human trafficking. It relies on the most recent available data from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), as well as supplemental data including from UNICEF, UN Women, and theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD), to descriptively analyze the rates for females and males, considering also progress over the last decade, and to identify where progress in gender equality has been made and whereactions are needed to ensure gender equality in and through education.