| World's Women 2000: Chapter
4 - Education and communication |
| Some important findings: |
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The
gender gap in primary and secondary schooling is closing,
but women still lag behind men in some countries of Africa
and Southern Asia. |
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Two thirds of the world's 876 million
illiterates are women, and the number of illiterates is not
expected to decrease significantly in the next twenty years.
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Women have made significant gains
in higher education enrolment in most regions of the world;
in some regions, women's enrolment now equals or surpasses
that of men. |
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More women than men lack the basic
literacy and computer skills needed to enter "new media" professions. |
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In many countries, women represent
a rapidly increasing share of Internet users.
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