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roaddogg:
ok,i came across this article from our country's daily newspaper:
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55 million Chinese women illiterate
Agence France-Presse
Last updated 03:47pm (Mla time) 07/19/2006
BEIJING - A total of 55 million Chinese women are illiterate, forcing them to live more disadvantaged lives than their male counterparts, state media said Wednesday.
The figure was given by Zhao Shaohua, vice chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, while attending a conference on Asian women in Beijing, the Xinhua news agency reported.
"Women in rural areas who lead poor lives account for more than 60 percent of the total rural laborers," she said. "Besides, women's incomes are lower than men's and the gap is widening."
China has done considerable work in recent decades to spread primary education and eradicate illiteracy, but in a plan announced in March only promised free nine-year compulsory education for all rural students within two years.
Poor farmers faced with choosing whether to put their son or daughter through school often prefer educating sons, leading to a far higher illiteracy rate among women than men.
Previous reports have suggested the illiteracy rate among Chinese women is nearly 16 percent, while it is just six percent among males.
Under the plan rural parents would no longer have to pay tuition and would only have to pay the costs of books and supplies. But schools are poorly monitored and under-funded and excessive fees charged by them could still force parents to take their daughters out of school.
The fact that Chinese is one of the world's most complex writing systems also does not help.
China's spending on education amounted to just 2.79 percent of GDP in 2004, far less than the world average of 4.2 percent. It plans to increase spending to 4.0 percent of GDP within the next five years.
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am a 23 year old businessman here in philippines.
i cant speak nor write chinese, but i am doing my best to learn.
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Roddog:
You bring out a number of points.
First, remember there are 1.3 billion population. So 55 million
is 4.2%.
Unesco, the agency of United Nations is its latest report show
the following stats:
http://www.chinapage.com/images/iliterate-eastasia.jpg
The stats is a few years old. It shows that the iliteracy rate of
Chinese women to be in the same range of many Asian countries,
which is not good.
The prodominant factor of iliteracy is poverty. A large number of
Chinese live on farms, and are still very poor.
During the last 10 years, the family income has improved greatly
for city residents. It is the government's Five-Year Plan to improve
the farmers' income. The prospect for the Chinese is far better
than those living in other countries.
We know that, for city folks, the number of college graduates has
increased during the last 10 years at a huge (unbievably fast) rate.
Finally, there are a lot of things you can do to help. With
internet, you can no longer say, "there is nothing I can do."
You can become a one-man educator, a one-man school.
Years ago, a one-man educator can teach one pupil.
Now, with internet, a one-man operatin can teach hundreds.
What do you say?
Ming
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