Abuse Lack of training, experience, and opportunities to participate in the Church's mission.
Education is accorded to the privileged.
Globally, lack of education and illiteracy is widespread with wide disparity between affluent and poor countries. Even in affluent countries, overall girls receive less education and training than boys. Illiteracy is powerfully linked to low social status, poverty and poor health. Lack of literacy skills traps women into the cycle of poverty with limited options for economic improvement, sentencing their children to chronic poverty and limited education and training opportunities. Lack of female literacy is also closely associated with increased infant and child mortality and illness.