Women Inequality

Justin Do
Justin Do
Jul 22, 2017 · 5 min read

Five Keys Proposal To Eradicate Gender Inequality

The word population has been reached over 7.5 billion people. The men’ ratio is about 50.4% while the women’s is 49.6% so the gap between men and women are that far. Men are considered the stronger gender, who can hold nearly every position from the family to the society. Women is not dignified as men and is viewed as a soft gender. Women’s role is about taking care of children and doing housewife work. As of today, many countries have recognized the equality between men and women. Besides the women’s equal right, women also have other rights such as a right to go to school for the knowledge, a right to have healthcare, a right to be respected and protected by law, a right to have equal employment opportunities for their occupations, and a right to vote as citizens. In the real world, many of these rights are not practiced as they are stated in the country’s constitution. We have seen these unfair laws that occur in the families, societies, or media news

According to Women’s Education in India, “In 1991, less than 40 percent of the 330 million women aged 7 and over were literate, which means today there are over 200 million illiterate women in India.” Education improves the understanding of family value and lifestyle. It helps women to know about birth control, disease prevention, and mothering their children. Violence and abuse always happens in every corner of the Earth. Based on the Human Rights Watch in South Africa, “A woman is raped every 17 seconds and one in four South African women suffers domestic violence.” They need to be protected by law from violence, abuse, and rape. The government should allow women to hold private or official positions. By the Labor Force of the World Bank, men’s manpower is dominated by 76.1% while women’s workforce is at 39.4%. Women also need to have a right to protect their money and property. Along their right to be a citizen, women need a right to vote. Some countries see women as men’s property. Based to the Fortune, “While 2015 seems like a bit late for women’s suffrage, Saudi Arabia is actually not the last country to give women the right to vote. The only country that remains is Vatican City, home of the Roman Catholic church.” We are living in the modern world of the 21st century. Equality will give us a freedom, happiness, and peaceful. Many developing countries who would spend millions or billions in national security defense, instead of their social issues. Here are the 5 key proposals for women inequality. They will make substantial changes and eradicate the country’s problems and the globe’s burdens as well.

  1. Education: When you educate a girl in Africa, everything changes. She’ll be three times less likely to get HIV/AIDS, earn 25% more income and have a smaller, healthier family. https://camfed.org/why-girls-education/stories/talent-tokoda/

When Talent Tokoda was 8 years old, her dad passed away. When she was 10, her mom left their rural village to look for work. She and her 2 siblings had to live with their aunt. Her aunt could not afford to send her to school. She got accepted to University of Zimbabwe with the university’s financial aid. She became one of the students at the university and graduated in 2013 with her doctorate degree. In the same year, she gave a speech at the graduation ceremony and the university launched 24,000 of new scholarships.

2. Health: Around 800 women die each day around the world from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. As the UN prepares to phase out its millennium development goals, which included the target of cutting maternal deaths by 75%. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/may/28/your-stories-childbirth-maternal-healthcare-around-the-world

Daw Nwe Nwe is living with her family in Burma. She says, “I think I could have saved my first child if I had the chance to learn about maternal and child healthcare earlier.”

3. Safety: According to a 2011 poll of experts by the Thomson Reuters Foundation Poll, Pakistan is the third most dangerous country for women in the world. It cited the more than 1,000 women and girls murdered in “honor killings” every year and reported that 90 percent of Pakistani women suffer from domestic violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/to-be-a-woman-in-pakistan-six-stories-of-abuse-shame-and-survival/255585/

Ayesha, 18, living in Pakistan with a new family who is treating her like a real daughter. She is sharing her dark secrets of abuse, shame, and survival when she was young. She was raped at pee-teen age by her neighbor. She even was sexually abused by her own father as a teenager.

4. Economic security: Research shows that ownership of assets can have strong social and psychological impacts as well. And that is what girls need: more power over their lives, a new ownership of their futures, protection from inevitable shocks or pressures, and hope where none may have existed. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/10/international_day_of_the_girl_map_shows_the_u_n_development_program_s_gender.html

Seema Kumari, 25, of India, begs for money in traffic as she holds her child. There are efforts under way to help poor women in high-poverty areas in India and other countries.

5. Citizenship: Saudi Arabia has held its first ever poll where women could vote and to stand as candidates for the very first time. Before King Abdullah died in January, he appointed 30 women to the country’s top advisory Shura Council. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35075702

Hatoon al-Fassi describes the election for the women’s suffrage for the first time in Saudi Arabia since December of 2015.

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