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392 WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICAthat peasant women exchanged their rightful share of land inheritance for the guaranteeof economic and social support from their brothers.” Marianne Heiberg, GeirØvensen, et al., “Women, Property and Access to Economic Resources,” in PalestinianSociety in Gaza, West Bank and Arab Jerusalem: A Survey of Living Conditions (Oslo:Forskningsstiftelsen Fafo, 1993), http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/300/320/327/fafo/reports/FAFO151/10_4.html.65According to the nongovernmental organization Badil, 48.4 percent of households onthe eastern side of the wall and 8.7 percent on the western side said that the wall hasnegatively affected their access to education. Of the students in the Jerusalem governorateaged 5 and above, 43.9 percent have attended school; 24.7 percent began school butdropped out; 24.6 percent attended and have graduated; and 6.8 percent have neverattended school. Nonattendance (12.3 percent) and the dropout rate (28.8 percent)were higher among Palestinians east of the wall than among those in the west. TheBadil study also found that 32.9 percent of Jerusalemites have changed their last placeof residence since the wall was built. Of these, 20 percent have done so involuntarily;and of these, 83.3 percent have been forcibly displaced once, 9.3 percent twice, and 7.4percent three times or more. Karine Mac Allister and Ingrid Gassner Jaradat, Displacedby the Wall: Pilot Study on Forced Displacement Caused by the Construction of the WestBank Wall and Its Associated Regime in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Bethlehemand Geneva: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights andthe Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, September2006), 29, 35, http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,IDMC,,PSE,4562d8cf2,4550a17f 2,0.html.66PCBS, Women and Men in Palestine: Issues and Statistics, 2007 (Ramallah: PCBS,August 2007), http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1379.pdf; fora graphic depiction of literacy by age group as of 2006, see PCBS, Palestine in Figures2006 (Ramallah: PCBS, May 2007), 34, http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1342.pdf.67As of 2006–07, the dropout rate at the basic education level was 0.5 percent for girls and1.3 percent for boys. At the secondary level it was 3.8 percent for girls and 3.0 percentfor boys. PCBS, Palestine in Figures 2007 (Ramallah: PCBS, May 2008), 25, http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_PCBS/Downloads/book1432.pdf; Palestinian Ministry ofEd ucation, The Phenomenon of Dropping Out from School: The Reasons, the Curative andPreventative Measures (Ramallah: Ministry of Education, August 2005), 8, http://www.moehe.gov.ps/publications/index.html (in Arabic).68The Educational Institutions Census of 2006/2007 found that 86,098 women and72,034 men were enrolled in universities. PCBS, “Education—Current Main In di cators,”http://www.pcbs.pna.org/DesktopModules/Articles/ArticlesView.aspx?tabID=0&lang=en&ItemID=256&mid=10967.69PCBS, Palestine in Figures 2006, 28–29. This may also explain why more men attendless costly community colleges: 6,319 male students were registered in community collegesin 2006–07, as opposed to 4,922 female students. PCBS, “Education—CurrentMain Indicators.”