(b) The low level of social awareness among rural women and their high illiteracy rate, which is 42 per cent, as compared with 17 per cent among men in rural areas

The Committee is concerned about the high rate of illiteracy and school dropouts in the State party.

334. There is a heavy concentration of illiterate women in the departments of the Sierra region, where the level of development is low.

Although the problem of illiteracy has been nearly overcome, the number of women who have not gone beyond primary school remains high.

One common source of businesses blind spots is judgment bias. This arises when executives have overly narrow views of their industry, underestimate their competitors capabilities, or fail to see how the competitive landscape is changing.

She'll be blind.

Equal are not the blind and those who can see,

And the blind and the sighted are not equal!

Not equal are the blind and the seeing man,

Not alike are the blind and the seeing.

Not alike are the blind (disbelievers in Islamic Monotheism) and the seeing (believers in Islamic Monotheism).

Not equal are the blind and the seeing.

The blind and the seeing are not alike,

The blind man is not equal with the seer

The blind one and the seer are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not equal,

Not equal are the blind and the seeing,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

And the blind and the seeing are not alike

The blind and the sighted are not equal,

The blind and the seeing are not alike

5.2 Participation in and the formulation of Government policy and the implementation thereof

5.2.1 Women and politics

Braille

Blind?

Blind?

Also, feelings that are clouding the issues the cognitive biases I talked about earlier, fears, folk beliefs, basically an inadequate model of reality.

Actually, you cannot be tone deaf. Nobody is tone deaf.

Illiteracy

I missed! I missed...

This is true of Kuna Yala, where there are almost two illiterate women for every illiterate man Darién, where 26.9 per cent of the male and 35 per cent of the female population are illiterate and Bocas del Toro, where the figures are 26 per cent and 34.7 per cent respectively (see table 8).

The rate of illiteracy was under 10 per cent for women, and about 5 per cent for men.

I'm colorblind.

The Diplomacy of the Blind

Color blindness simulation

Braille Patterns

She's blind!

He's blind!

Illiteracy, that'll do it.

She was blind.

The Three year Women's Literacy Programme, which seeks to teach 300,000 women to read and write by 2005, working through more than 1000 young literacy volunteers.

They expect one blind child to teach another?

There had been a marked decrease in illiteracy, with very large numbers of students attending literacy courses, which were offered on a non discriminatory basis.

While illiteracy continues to be a concern, the rate of female illiteracy is lower than that of males, which is an exception when compared to the situation of illiteracy in most other countries.

Support of the activities of the National Committee of Blind Women of the ABPAM