Women experience disadvantage and oppression differentially, based on their status, context and location.

While the world's major killer disease, smallpox, that used to claim millions of lives has been eliminated, the planet has been struck with a more dreaded disease, AIDS or Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.

The drive for a rapid development in the education of women came largely from a perception summed up aptly in .the following statement by Mayhew: "women

Although female labour force participation is a growth driver, participation rates suggest a country’s potential for faster growth.