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Stefania Giannini

Stefania Giannini is assistant director-general for education at Unesco, the United Nations’ leading education agency

<p>‘Decision-makers must take steps to address the ‘invisible’ barriers to gender equality in and through education’</p>

We need to build schools that act as role models for gender equality

In Colombia, Maria, 8 years-old, from Venezuela, works on maths problems

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