http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:24:28 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35747 Mothers, carbon, trash, vanishing ice and "secret lives": Watch a movie for Earth Day and learn. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/02/reusable-homemade-feminine-pads-a-simple-intervention-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/02/reusable-homemade-feminine-pads-a-simple-intervention-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:18:19 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=6219 In many areas of sub-Saharan Africa, gender parity tends to decline at higher levels of schooling. While girls’ enrollment and completion rates for primary school are typically high, these rates decrease with secondary and tertiary education. Girls may discontinue their studies to devote more time to household chores, to earn extra income by engaging in [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/02/reusable-homemade-feminine-pads-a-simple-intervention-to-help-keep-girls-in-school/feed/ 2