| 1 | But women's literacy stands at just 58%, and only 23% of workers are women. | |
| 2 | Despite this, in many developing countries, the literacy rate for women is abysmal . | |
| 3 | Education is highly prized, and literacy is virtually 100 percent. | |
| 4 | Prussia, and even the small Catholic states, had a higher literacy rate than France early on. | |
| 5 | Similarly, literacy spread as the Europeans exploited paper and printing, both Chinese inventions. |