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Table 25.
Gross enrolment ratio at primary level (percentage)
Total
M
F
1980
1992
1980
1992
1980
1992
96
103
102
107
90
98
Table 26.
Gross enrolment ratio at secondary level (percentage)
Total
M
F
1980
1992
1980
1992
1980
1992
35
61
44
74
24
48
Table 27.
Third-level education: percentage of girls in
each branch of study, 1992
All
branches
Education
Letters
Law and
social
sciences
35
43
46
34
Exact and
natural
sciences
Engineering
Agriculture
Medical
sciences
28
47
29. So far Turkey's report has not been sent to UNESCO. We cannot therefore
comment on it. The figures cited in the World Education Report 1995 showed in
that year Turkish women as representing 76 per cent of the illiterate
population. This was an increase; in 1980 they represented 73 per cent. The
same report states that girls and boys are almost equal in primary education.
But this equality does not exist at the secondary level.
V.
CONSIDERATION OF SPECIAL ARTICLES BY THE SIXTEENTH SESSION
A.
Article 2
30. Article 2 of the Convention requests States to adopt constitutional and
legislative measures establishing the principle of equality between men and
women, prohibiting all discrimination against women and instituting legal
protection for women against any violation of this principle and any act of
discrimination. It also requests States to take all necessary measures to
modify or abolish any laws or regulations which discriminate against women and
to eliminate any practice which constitutes such discrimination.
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