About 15% of the female population in Niger can read, compared to 42% of the male population. In the United States, 99% of both the male and female populations are literate. The average person in Niger completes less than two years of schooling, compared to thirteen years of schooling in the United States. On average, women in Niger have their first child at age eighteen, compared to an average age of twenty-five in the United States.

What inference can be made about the status of women, based on this passage?

When their status is lower, they are likely to have fewer children.
When their status is lower, they are likely to receive more education.
When their status is higher, they are are less likely to be literate.
When their status is higher, they are likely to wait to have children.