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Many reasons exist for why formal education for females is unavailable to so many, including cultural reasons. For example, some believe that a woman's education will get in the way of her duties as a wife and a mother. In some places in Africa where women marry at age 12 or 13, education hinders a young woman's development. [63]
Increased women's education is important for achieving this as it targets the impoverished women, a particularly disadvantaged group. [11] There is also evidence that lower gender disparity in educational attainment for a developing country correlates with lower overall income disparity within society.
Women's education in West Africa manifested in both formal and informal structures, with one of the more notable structures that had influence on women's education being preparatory schools labeled "Bush Schools". [57] These bush schools were institutions that would oftentimes boast near 100% graduation rates and completed courses.
As of 2002 the Nauru Department of Education gives the school 80% of its funds. [16] It is a Roman Catholic school. [22] The Location School (years 1-8 as of April 2002 [16]) - Within the "Location" housing development in Denigomodu, for expatriate children [23] This is the only school in Nauru which is not English medium. [24] Special schools:
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According to a 2013 study by Abrahams, [74] South Africa has the fourth highest rate of female homicide with 12.9 per 100,000 women being murdered by intimate partners in South Africa annually. With a rate of 7.5/100,000 women, women in South Africa are four times more likely to be murdered with a gun than a woman in the United States.
Analysts believe that women's inability to accumulate wealth has allowed for gender inequality to persist on the continent. According to the World Bank, 37% of women in Sub-Sahara Africa have a bank account, compared to 48% of men. [52] These percentages are even lower for women in North Africa where two-thirds of the population remains unbanked.
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