Abstract
This chapter assesses the interactions among SDGs for the case of women’s economic empowerment. For illustration purposes, we single out two forms of hidden gender inequalities within education (i.e., gender bias in learning materials and educational leadership) that may potentially undermine interlinkages between SDGs 4 and 5. Descriptive secondary evidence on the broken and intact interlinkages between female schooling and women’s employment is presented and is followed by a discussion of the policy lessons from South Asia vis-à-vis Southeast Asia-two regions with contrasting experience in harnessing synergistic developments and positive interlinkages for women’s development. In sum, if gender inequality within the production of education is overlooked, schooling girls will not be enough for economic empowerment of women and may even reinforce the broken links between SDGs 4 and 5.