Equality of Opportunity in Education and Training - Federation of Russia, Education for All Framework for Action

Education for All: Russia's National Framework for Action up to 2015

Ch 1.3.5. determines the objectve for promoting gender equality as "Elimination by 2005 of the gap between boys and girls in the primary and secondary education and attaining by 2015 equality of males and females in education with a particular attention to the accessibility to the basic education and graduation for girls".

Policies to be implemented to achieve the objective:

• securing of to girl school attendance and completing the corresponding syllabi;
  
• providing a continuous learning of pregnant girls and young mothers for obtaining by girls basic education through the system of afternoon schools;
  
• mobilizing all society's efforts including parents, governmental and non-governmental organizations to the support of educational policy that will enhance gender consciousness of the society;
  
• launching special courses for school staff, parents and all school-involved personnel to pay a particular attention to sex education;
  
• discussing text-looks and teaching aids to raise girls' and women's feeling of self-respect, positive assessment of their personal value and amendment of the training books and teaching aids by giving a green light to the female participation in the social life, including policy, development, culture, history, sports and other social, political and cultural activities;
  
• teaching administrators working at the governmental educational bodies understand sex problems, particularly among girls from native and rural population, and elaborate teaching aids fitted to their needs;
  
• clearing up special demands of girls from hard surroundings, including those from refugee and forced migrant families, ethnic minorities, orphan and disabled girls and other young females requiring special approach, and raising money to meet their demands;
  
• providing opportunities for girl leadership training, their ability to carry out educative activity and patch up conflicting situations;
  
• focusing on unpaid labour of girls and boys in household surroundings by the research and collection of information about gender differences, particularly, in rural communities; checking up the impact of girls' employment in household chores on equal opportunities for basic and further education and career, as well as warding off disbalances and discriminations.
  

In the Plan, it is pledged that Russia apply a comprehensive package of measures aimed at amending social, moral and behavioural models for elimination of any gender-based discriminations.