THE main difficulty developing countries have faced in making primary education universal is its education of girls. In Gansu and Qinghai provinces and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, experimental schools for girls sponsored by education workers have seen inspiring results. In 1993, 96.4 percent of girls continued their schooling. According to 1990 statistics, more than 180 million Chinese were illiterate; two-thirds of them were women. Also, of children aged 7-11 who hadn’t yet gone to school, girls accounted for 81 percent. Currently, provinces and autonomous regions with the lowest enrollment rate for girls are all located in remote, poor or
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