Educate the Girls!

David R. Francis writes in the CSMonitor:

If a developing nation wants to make fast progress, it must educate its girls and give them more equality in jobs and economic opportunities.Decades of international and domestic efforts to speed development in more than 100 poor countries shows that, as the title of a recent study puts it, "Girls Count."More than just counting, helping girls get ahead and out of the limitations that so many cultures have placed on them for hundreds of years is vital to overcoming poverty and growing prosperity...[continue reading]