Sixty years of educational planning at UNESCO: Addressing gender inequality

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It's one of the biggest challenges facing education systems worldwide: gender inequality. Though improvements have closed or even reversed gender gaps in schools in recent years, there's still significant room for progress, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. According to UNESCO, more than half of all girls out of primary and secondary school are on the African continent. Erin Ogunkeye spoke to Fabricia Devignes, programme manager at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning. We also take a look at why women in France technically started working for free on November 6 and finish with a look at photographer Viviane Sassen's first retrospective in Paris.