In the struggle to figure out how to get more girls in poor countries in school, there are a zillion strategies. Building more schools. Offering free school lunches, or sacks of grain to families of girls with perfect attendance for a month. Iodine supplements so that fetal girls don’t suffer iodine deficiency (which seems to retard their mental development more than it does boys’). Deworming, so that kids are stronger and healthier and miss less school. In recent years, there also have been increasing suggestions that one of the reasons girls in Africa and Asia miss school is that they have trouble managing menstruation. The idea is that they don’t have decent sanitary products and so stay home during their periods and then get further and further behind and finally drop out. http://is.gd/2SGmv