65 MILLION Girls Denied Education

Can you believe these findings by the UN? Basically, the story says that part of the problem is fees-- when a poor family has to pay to send children to school, they are more likely to pay for the sons to go and not the daughters. Sometimes, here in the US in academic circles where everyone is privileged enough to be able to go to school, I think we forget that there really are still people out there who are systematically discriminated against. It's not a case of a perceived unfairness; it is truly a systemic ban on women learning.

And then the funny(?) part: when I first posted this entry, I forgot to run spell-check and had spelled two easy words wrong. I really suck.!