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Human Ordeals Thrive On Ignorance. To Understand A Problem With Clarity Is Already Half Way Towards Solving It.

An Arab Activist Can Take Pride In The Arab Heritage Of Mathematics And Science Or He Can Take Pride In His Religion, And There's Pride To Be Taken In Both. But One Of Them Could Be Exploited Much More Easily And Has Been In The Context Of World Conflict. And The Other Is Very Difficult To Do On The Grounds That Science And Literature And Mathematics Have Been Among The Uniting Factors In The History Of The World.

One Of The Things That Any Kind Of Studies Bring Out Is That The Mere Act Of Schooling - Getting Together, The Organization Involved, Going To Classes On Time, And There're Things Being Taught, Sitting Down With Others With Different Backgrounds, Chatting With Them, And, Sometimes When There Are Big Barriers, Eating Together When There Are School Meals, Which Are Big Things Together With A Big Social Impact - They Themselves Have A Major Effect.

There May Be Countries [where] There's No Gender Inequality In Schooling, Even In Higher Education, But [where There Is] Gender Inequality In High Business. Japan Is A Very Good Example Of That. You Might Find Cases In The United States Where At One Level Women's Equality Has Progressed Tremendously. You Don't Have The Kind Of Problem Of Higher Women's Mortality As You See In South Asia, North Africa, And East Asia, China, Too, And Yet For American Women There Are Some Fields In Which Equality Hasn't Yet Come.

Sometimes The Lack Of Substantive Freedoms Relates Directly To Economic Poverty