The challenge is daunting: 508 million of the 792 million illiterate adults worldwide are women.
Furthermore, although the total number of illiterate adults is decreasing worldwide, the proportion of women remains constant at around 64%.
In a world that still numbers 793 million illiterate adults, women account for two thirds of those who cannot read and write.
Gender equality in education is a major global concern, but despite commitments to international gender goals, the majority of out-of-school children, and two-thirds of illiterate adults are female.
His state government increased school enrolment, taught illiterate adults to read, raised the state university to national stature and brought Louisiana out of the horse-and-buggy era by building lots of new roads and bridges.
Women, particularly in the developing world, continue to under-perform: nearly one in five girls who enrolls in primary school does not complete her education, soon becoming one of the more than 781 million illiterate adults in developing nations.
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Recognising the existence of these socio-economic and psychological barriers to education, the German Adult Education Association (GAEA) initiated the Ich-will-lernen (I want to learn) Programme in an effort to provide functionally illiterate adults and youths an opportunity to learn how to read and write through the use of the internet.
The e-learning programme is founded on the basic and practical principle that the use of the internet as a learning tool not only creates anonymity and thus dismantles the psychological barriers that prevent illiterate adults from resuming their studies but also enables them to balance their work, family and learning commitments by learning at home at whatever time is suitable to them.
Two-thirds of the 49.5 million illiterate Pakistani adults are women.
He emphasized that constitutional right to education ought to be enforced to block further addition of illiterate youth and adults in the existing lot of illiterate population.
Some 775 million adults remain illiterate, two thirds of them girls and women.
Out of the total 5, 759, 000 adults who are illiterate, 69 per cent are women.
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No wonder over one-fifth of American adults are functionally illiterate.
According to UNESCO, a CLC is as a community-based non-formal educational institution or organisation which provides a range of services and learning opportunities to out-of-school children, youth and illiterate or semi-literate adults from socially disadvantaged rural and urban communities.
However, progress has been insufficient to deliver on the international commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, young people and adults: 67 million primary school age children are out of school and 796 million adults are still illiterate.
Yet in spite of this impressive record, 9% of students are unable to complete their schooling and as such, as of 2004, about 220.000 young people had basic education while 0, 6% adults were totally illiterate, and between 6, 5% and 11, 2% (or four million) were functionally illiterate.
They are heavily under-represented in higher education and become adults who are often illiterate, unskilled and with little voice in society.
One in three of the world's adults continue to be illiterate.
As a result, it is estimated that 30% of Roma adults (aged 45 years and above) are illiterate and have never attended school.
UNESCO: Parent Empowerment for Family Literacy Project (PEFaL)
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