b" Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that\nno nation or family can afford not to educate their girls.\n\nGene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on\nForeign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal\nEducation, have written this definitive book on the importance of girls'\neducation. As Malala Yousafzai expresses in her foreword, the idea that any\nchild could be denied an education due to poverty, custom, the law, or terrorist\nthreats is just wrong and unimaginable. More than 1,000 studies have provided\nevidence that high-quality girls' education around the world leads "