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There May Be Countries [where] There's No Gender Inequality In Schooling, Even In Higher Education, But [where There Is] Gender Inequality In High Business. Japan Is A Very Good Example Of That. You Might Find Cases In The United States Where At One Level Women's Equality Has Progressed Tremendously. You Don't Have The Kind Of Problem Of Higher Women's Mortality As You See In South Asia, North Africa, And East Asia, China, Too, And Yet For American Women There Are Some Fields In Which Equality Hasn't Yet Come.

Education Could Be A Great Vehicle For Gender Equity. It Allows People To See What Your Rights Are By Reading. Quite Often Women, For Example, May Have Rights That They Are Not In The Position To Actually Make Use Of.

The Elimination Of Ignorance, Of Illiteracy... And Of Needless Inequalities In Opportunities (is) To Be Seen As Objectives That Are Valued For Their Own Sake. They Expand Our Freedom To Lead The Lives We Have Reason To Value, And These Elementary Capabilities Are Of Importance On Their Own

Opportunity Could Be Defined In So Many Ways. There's One Way Of Defining It, Equality Of Opportunity, Which Is In Fact The Equality Of Capability, But The Libertarians Got There First And They Have - Like The Americans Getting Onto The Moon, Naming Every Crater After Something Like An Astronaut - They Have Got There And Named "opportunity" In A Way That We Cannot Get Ownership Of Now.

Being Able To Read, Write, Do Your Sums Really Transforms A Human Being.