from BMO Economics

There has been a major reversal in educational attainment. Since 1970, the proportion of men with university degrees has risen from 20% to only 26%; whereas for women, the proportion has nearly tripled from a mere 12% to 34%. According to a Pew Research Center January 2010 U.S. study, U.S.-born Caucasians between the ages of 30 to 44 belong to the first cohort in history to have more women than men with college degrees. The trend is very similar in Canada.

Meanwhile, a 14 year old girl in Pakistan takes a Taliban bullet just for wanting to go to school.

There's a lot of causes a person can support - no end of organizations looking for donations - but this is one that can really make a difference because it addresses the root of what ails our world at the most basic level: the education of girls and the improvement that brings to their social status. Check it out and see if you don't agree, and if you know a western woman who's enrolled in university or has graduated from one, make sure she hears about it

http://www.halftheskymovement.org

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