Missing Persons
(1) Many of the world’s girls and women are missing from schools. (2) In sub-Saharan Africa, for every ten boys, only six girls are enrolled in secondary school, and in southern Asia, only four. (3) In these regions, three-quarters of women aged 25 and over are still illiterate. (4) A major reason why girls leave school is that they are married off, often to older men, and begin bearing children in their teens. (5) Some are sold by their parents to prostitution rings, where young girls are in demand because they are considered less likely to carry the AIDS virus.
(6) Women are missing from the paid labor force. (7) Women work as hard as or harder than men (on average, thirteen more hours a week worldwide). (8) But the work women do—caring for children; providing food and health care to their families; tending gardens and livestock; processing crops; gathering firewood and hauling water; weaving cloth, carpets, and baskets; and selling home-grown food and home-made crafts at local markets—is not considered “real” work. (9) When women do work for wages, they are usually employed in clerical, sales, and service occupations, and they are excluded from higher-paying jobs in manufacturing, transportation, and management. (10) Even when women do the same work as men, they earn—on average worldwide—30 to 40 percent less. (11) Women are missing in the halls of power, policy, and decision making. (12)Although women make up more than half the world’s population, less than 5 percent of heads of state, heads of corporations, and directors of international organizations are female. 13) Women are missing from the battlefield, but tragically not from the ranks of the dead and wounded. (14) In the many ethnic and civil wars in the world today, hostile groups are fighting for towns and cities, and civilians are caught in the crossfire. (15) Hundreds of thousands of women and children have become widows, orphans, and refugees.(16) War or not, women the world over are regularly abused sexually, physically injured, and even killed simply because they are women. (17) In 1987 in India, 1,786 “dowry deaths”—in which the husband and/or his family kill a woman because her dowry was insufficient—were recorded. (18) In Thailand, more than 50 percent of married women living in Bangkok’s largest squatter settlement said they were regularly beaten by their husbands. (19) Not until 1991 did the Brazilian Supreme Court outlaw the “honor” defense, which excused a man who murdered an adulterous wife on the grounds that he was defending his honor.

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SELECT THE IMPLIED MAIN IDEA

a. Throughout the world, women’s work is usually undervalued, even though women work as hard as or harder than men.

b. All over the world, women and girls are sexually exploited and murdered by men simply because they are female.

c. Because girls and women receive far fewer educational opportunities than men throughout the world, they have far fewer opportunities to become decision-makers.

d. Throughout the world, females are clearly second-class citizens or worse.