I find myself asking one question: where do all the brilliant girls go? I will tell you. Boys and girls sit in the same classrooms, they are taught the same curriculum, and they write the same examinations. Yet somewhere along the way, their life outcomes begin to diverge. So I began to wonder: are the things girls are learning, or perhaps not learning, betraying their future outcomes?
The question really hit me during the COVID-19 pandemic when women, who were once those girls sitting in our classrooms, seemed to bear the ‘professional brunt’ of the crisis. They carried the burden of unpaid care work at home and at work as nurses and frontline health workers. Many also worked in the informal economy as necessity entrepreneurs, so when economies shut down, their livelihoods disappeared almost overnight. Then the world announced that the future of work was digital, yet women were disproportionately
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