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Gender parity in education is a goal for national governments and international organizations (UN General Assembly 2000). Achieving gender equality in educational opportunities by 2015 is one of the six key educational goals for 164 governments and various international organizations under the “Education for All” initiative (UNESCO 2007a). However, by 2005, according to a recent report to monitor global progress toward the goals of Education for All, only one-third of 181 countries with available data had achieved gender parity in both primary and secondary gross enrollment ratios, leading UNESCO (2007b, 79) to the conclusion that “the gender parity goal has been missed and gender equality remains elusive.” Despite the considerable progress toward gender parity at a global level, regional gender disparities in access to education, especially secondary and higher education, persist in sub-Saharan Africa …