Key to Freedom: Women and Literacy

This documentary features women for whom literacy is making a difference and shows a number of projects that advance literacy for women.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:27:06
• Production Date: 1 January 1990
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: GERMAINE GREER
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN - UNIFEM; DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION - DPI; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND - UNFPA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO; INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION - ILO; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: WOMEN; LITERACY; EDUCATION
• Geographic Subject: MALI; THAILAND; COSTA RICA; UNITED STATES
• MAMS Id: 1996094
• Parent Id: 840215

Description

The typical citizen of our world is young, poor, female and often illiterate. But women who learn to read and write learn not only to express themselves but that they have a self to express. This documentary, presented by Germaine Greer, features women in Mali, Thailand, Costa Rica and New York for whom literacy is making a difference and shows a number of projects that advance literacy for women while being responsive to their immediate needs.