Recently, in an exclusive interview with China News Agency “China Focus”, Beate Trankmann, the representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in China, said that the touching story of Zhang Guimei, a model of China’s poverty alleviation and the principal of Lijiang Huaping Girls’ Senior High School, sheds light on the impact of education. The importance of poverty alleviation.
She said that education also has a strong role in promoting gender equality. Zhang Guimei has insisted on doing so decades ago. This is where she has vision.
Bai Yating said that two-thirds of the 750 million illiterate people in the world are women.
If girls do not have the opportunity to receive education, it will affect their position and income in the job market.
On average globally, women who work in the same type of work as men earn 16% less.
On the contrary, a girl’s more primary education means that her income after entering the job market will rise by 10% to 20%.
(Bo Wenwen, Shan Lu, Li Shuoxing)
Editor in charge: [Chen Haifeng]