2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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These two goals are distinguished as:
- gender parity goals [achieving equal participation of girls and boys in all forms of education based on their proportion
in the relevant age-groups in the population] and
- gender equality goals [ensuring educational equality between boys and girls].

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The international nongovernmental organization (NGO) Femmes Africa
Solidarité (FAS) defines gender as

the different roles and responsibilities attributed to men and women in society. It does not only mean the biological definition of
sex as male and female, but also how these biological definitions are constructed in a social context, subject to historical and
cultural change. During conflict, women and men may have different roles, concerns and priorities.

Consequently, gender matters in education practice, policymaking, and theory- building.

Gender matters when we look globally at peoples’ ability to exercise civil rights
and to fully participate in governing bodies, whether as voters or as elected
representatives.