My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
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