高一（2011-2012）下学期期末专项训练 任务型阅读10篇(一）第一篇 educating girls quite possibly harvests a higher rate of return than any other investment in the developing world. women's education may be an unusual economical field, but increasing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. and economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides an explanation for why so many girls are rid of an education. parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school -- the prophecy (观念) becomes self
