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In reply to the discussion: John Kerry: Up to Saudi Arabia to decide if women should be allowed to drive [View all]Whisp
(24,096 posts)The overall literacy rate in Iraq had been 78% in 1977 and 87% for adult women by 1985, but declined rapidly since then.[citation needed] Between 1990 and 1998, over one fifth of Iraqi children stopped enrolling in school, consequently increasing the number of non-literates and losing all the gains made in the previous decade. The 1990s also saw a dramatic increase in child labor, from a virtually non-existent level in the 1980s.[citation needed] The per capita income in Iraq dropped from $3510 in 1989 to $450 in 1996, heavily influenced by the rapid devaluation of the Iraqi dinar.[27]
Iraq had been one of the few countries in the Middle East that invested in womens education. But this situation changed from the late eighties on with increasing militarisation and a declining economic situation. Consequently the economic hardships and war casualties in the last decades have increased the number of women-headed households and working women.[27]
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steam coming out of my ears that people just don't want to believe this because Hillary is all for the rights of humans. DISSAPPOINTED!