As the problem of young women cutting and burning themselves gets mainstream attention, female teens are logging on to the Internet to talk about why they injure themselves. Women’s eNews corresponded with a few of them for this story.
Experts at a conference on “Women and Girls in the High Tech Economy” called for a drive to train more women and girls, saying that though business now is sluggish, the economy will rebound and business will be inseparable from technology.
It’s back to school everywhere, but uneducated girls continue to swell the ranks of the world’s 1 billion illiterate adults–two-thirds of them women. Of 100 million children worldwide between 6 and 11 who are not in school, 70 percent are girls.
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