This huge gap is filled with rape, genital mutilation, forced prostitution, child brides, lack in education and health care. When will the world stop and see that this problem is not a question of women gaining their rights per say, but more of humankind becoming, well human. The barbaric acts that occur to these young girls everyday make me sad that human-beings can act so animalistic.
Women in the U.S. of A fight for equal wages, girls of the Western Hemisphere fight for their lives everyday. I complain about having to go to school, when just across the ocean girls are not even given the opportunity because according to their parents, school would be useless for a woman, or because their brother has priority. (I am in no way critisizing women in the United States who are fighting for these things. In fact, I encourage it- We deserve it.)
Once again, when reading the book HALF THE SKY, I was confronted with an interesting aspect. If the same things that were happening to women everyday happened to men, then they would be considered a much bigger deal. However, since these women to not possess a certain member betwixt their legs, they are punished for it.
Here are some startling facts:
- "More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century."
- "More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. "
- "The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal."
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