Gender Equality, Education, and Development

Abstract

This chapter critically examines Sustainable Development Goal 4 and its tensions in post-colonial contexts, emphasizing how education is mobilized as both a tool for modern nation-building and a marker of cultural tradition via gendered constructs. Through frameworks of nation-state, development, education, and gender, and contextualized by empirical research in Pakistan, the authors argue that competing goals of modernity and cultural identity challenge the realization of gender equality in education. Insights are drawn for navigating policy discourses across global, national, and local levels.,