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As the Taliban Resurges in Afghanistan, Girls Are Already Losing Schools...
According to World Bank data, the number of Afghan girls attending first grade peaked in 2011 the second year of former President Barack Obamas troop surge at 65%. While statistics on the number of Afghan children in school are difficult to obtain and often contested, all indicators show girls education is in decline. By 2015, female first graders had fallen to 57%, the most recent data available. Current literacy rates reflect the disparity between the genders: only 37% of teenage girls can read and write, compared to 66% of adolescent boys, according to Human Rights Watch. Today, UNICEF says of the 3.7 million Afghan children out of school, 60% of them are girls.
https://fullerproject.org/story/as-the-taliban-resurges-in-afghanistan-girls-are-already-losing-schools/
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Before Kabul fell: 'Only 37% of teenage girls can read and write' (Original Post)
speak easy
Aug 2021
OP
The U.S. should have taught Afghans to read and write during the 20-year occupation
dalton99a
Aug 2021
#1
wow north korea is 100%? lol Amusing whoever made this chart believed whoever told them that
Takket
Aug 2021
#8
The way I heard it, that's a higher percentage than the Afghan army...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2021
#4
From personal experience, I'm sceptical that the US rate is 99% or anywhere near it.
Ron Obvious
Aug 2021
#5
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)1. The U.S. should have taught Afghans to read and write during the 20-year occupation
Would have been a nice lasting legacy
(The United States is not listed, but the U.S. literacy rate is about 99%.)
Takket
(21,644 posts)8. wow north korea is 100%? lol Amusing whoever made this chart believed whoever told them that
tulipsandroses
(5,129 posts)2. Thats why I posted that "liberating women and girls"
Was just another lie to keep the war going.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)3. Yes it's a real shame that their literacy rate is so low.
But I don't think there is much we in this country can do about it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. The way I heard it, that's a higher percentage than the Afghan army...
Or the overall population.
And it ain't Taliban's fault, although they didn't help. Literacy is just not a big deal over there.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)5. From personal experience, I'm sceptical that the US rate is 99% or anywhere near it.
But that's another matter.
JI7
(89,279 posts)6. Higher than I would have guessed
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