In this article, I shall try to show, first, exactly why education should be thought to be a key for women in making progress on many other problems in their lives. Second, I shall describe the sources of resistance to educating women and argue that objections from the side of traditionalism are misplaced and incoherent. (Here I shall draw on my experience with women’s development groups in India.) Finally, I shall argue that, if women’s education is to be fostered around the world, two things must happen that are now not sufficiently happening. First, nations, and states within nations, must make women’s education a high priority matter and devote a good deal of their resources and energies to it. Second, wealthy nations, their concerned citizens, and their corporations must all commit resources to the effort.
