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By nearly every statistical measure, women, particularly women from developing countries, are trailing their male counterparts in literacy achievement. According to the latest Global Monitoring Report from UNESCO, there are approximately 781 million adults and 126 million youths who cannot read or write a simple sentence (Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2014). Statistically, twothirds of them are women, a clear indication that literacy is a gendered problem.
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Laaredj-Campbell, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Changing Female Literacy Practices in Algeria. Edition Centaurus - Sozioökonomische Prozesse in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11633-0_1
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