World Bank2025-07-242025-07-242025-07-24https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43501This report outlines the World Bank Education Global Department's efforts to improve education outcomes for girls and young women, emphasizing its role in unlocking their economic potential. The brochure highlights the significant progress made in girls' education globally since 2015, with increased enrollments and completion rates across primary and secondary levels, and a rise in female labor market participation. Despite these gains, persistent challenges such as gender-based violence, child marriage, high dropout rates, and gender discrimination, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and conflict-affected areas, are acknowledged. The report details the World Bank's strategic interventions, which align with the World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030, across six critical areas: early childhood education, gender-sensitive school infrastructure, safe schools for girls, skills development for jobs, STEM careers, and second-chance programs for out-of-school girls. Specific projects in Serbia, Kenya, Mozambique, Pakistan, India, the Sahel region, Nigeria, Georgia, Colombia, and Tanzania are showcased as examples of these interventions. A special section addresses the gender gap in STEM fields, noting the low representation of women and outlining interventions to encourage their participation. Another special issue discusses the escalating global concern of boys' disengagement and underperformance in education, presenting World Bank projects in Paraguay, Piaui, Colombia, and Guyana that aim to address this trend.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOWorking PaperWorld Bank10.1596/43501