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Over-all, adult literacy rates have improved a great deal over the last three decades. However, a disproportionate number of people who are illiterate are women. What percentage of the 842 million illiterate adults are women? | ||
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66% | ||
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ANSWER: Access to education is often limited and it is even more limited to girls and women. In various cultures, when resources re limited, educating a girl is seen as a waste at best and a loss of needed labour at home at worst. For these and a variety of other reasons, 66% of all people who are illiterate are women. | ||
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