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/^t/Women inferiority can be best traced on the example of the Islamic world. In these countries governed by religious codes, the position of women is defined by the sacred book of Islam - the Koran, which says that: "men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other" and "good women are obedient". Basic religious law, which is the foundation for all legislation concerning families, allows a man to marry four wives, while it is impossible for a woman to have more than one husband. It also diminishes a woman to the status of half a man for purposes of inheritance. Most Muslim women are deprived of primary education. In Egypt, for example, 66.2 percent of the adult women are illiterate, while only 37.1 percent of the men. The ratio of women and men illiterates is similar in most of the poorer countries in the Muslim world. Of all 960 million illiterate people all over the world, two thirds are women. Ninety million girls in the world are denied primary education. Even if some of them are lucky enough to go to the university, they still have to sit behind men during lectures. Even educated women cannot perform top jobs and work among men.