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FEMALE EMPOWERMENT
Case study: Education As a medium for Female empowerment
In this edition of female empowerment, our focus will be on the aspect of “RIGHT TO BE EDUCATED”.
I know that you may be wondering jif females are still being deprived of their right to be educated in this so called “Era of tech” and the shocking truth is “Yes”. Millions of females out there are being deprived of their right to be educated due to the ancient believe that it will be a waste of time as they would sooner or later be tied down in the kitchen but this isn’t true hence, this belief should be trashed.
The following are countries in which females are being deprived of the right to education:
CAMBODIA
Almost the entire educated class in Cambodia was eradicated when the forceful Khmer Rouge assumed power in the 1970s. The aftermath can still be seen today, as most women’s education comes to a halt at the onset of, or before, puberty, with only 15 percent of women seeking higher education. For the overwhelming majority of women, their fate is to suffer from domestic violence or marital rape and work in the rice fields or as prostitutes as early as age 13.
PAKISTAN
The lack of formal education for women in Pakistan made headlines recently when the Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head for pursuing her right to learn. The education rate for Pakistani women is among the lowest in the world. Over half of Pakistani girls are not educated, and according to the World Economic Forum Gender Parity Report, Pakistan has the world’s second lowest rate of female employment. Now, the Malala Fund, named in her honor, endorses the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world.
NEPAL
In Nepal, only seven percent of students actually make it to the tenth grade, and the ratio of boys to girls is practically 2:1. A female’s education is not as important as a male’s, and thus, many Nepalese young women are sold into bonded servitude or raised to learn to run a household. There are, however, glimmers of hope, as many associations are now running initiatives to provide additional educational support for Nepalese women.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is notoriously one of the hardest places in the world to be a woman. One of the most startling statistics we’ve found is that nine out of 10 women are illiterate: About 40 percent of Afghan girls attend elementary school, with only one in 20 girls attending beyond the sixth grade.
Not only do many women face death threats on their way to school, such as acid being thrown in their faces, but they are also forbidden to learn with boys, which makes finding an accessible school even harder. Since thousands of young girls are forced into child marriages at a considerably young age, they miss out on any chance of receiving an education
Chad
Chadian women face cultural and social challenges that make it exponentially more difficult for them to attain an education. They have one of the highest rates of underage marriages in the world, and education is seldom a priority with their husbands controlling every facet of their lives. Orphans, child laborers and impoverished kids are unable to go to school in Chad -- only 10 percent of girls have even completed elementary school.
Papua New Guinea
Despite publicized initiatives to increase a woman’s access to education in Papua New Guinea, 60 percent of females are illiterate and that number is even worse in more rural areas. Primary education remains neither free nor compulsory, while violence against women is almost a mainstay. Even worse, village judicial systems relying on customary laws do little to rectify this grave situation.
Haiti
In Haiti, one-third of girls over the age of six never go to school and the numbers are even more staggering for those living in remote areas. The estimated annual cost to send a child to school (uniform, books, materials and transportation) is equivalent to 131 US dollars, yet extreme poverty makes it extraordinarily difficult to afford this cost, let alone have one less child laborer to help provide for the family. With such hardships, it’s not completely astonishing that about 38 percent of the country cannot read or write.
Egypt
Last month, Thomas Reuters Foundation declared Egypt to be the worst Arab state for women in the world. After the Islamist political party, Muslim Brotherhood, came into power in 2012, women’s rights have been drastically curtailed, including their right to an education -- a freedom they had previously pursued.
Since the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power earlier this year by the Egyptian military, the interim government is trying to rectify their previous mistakes, including women’s rights. It is interesting to note, however, that before the 2011 revolution in the country, Egypt had one of the better education rights for women in the Middle East.
Guatemala
In Guatemala, about 15.6 percent of the female population is educated to at least secondary school, compared to 21 percent of males. Women are traditionally viewed as having a domestic role and, thus, are not encouraged to attend school. On top of crippling poverty, the need to earn a living outweighs the expense and time that obtaining an education requires. Even if a family can afford to send at least one child to school, it will usually send the boy.
The above listed countries are only but a little percentage of the total number of countries that deprive females of their right to education.
Equal education, besides being a basic human right, is an essential tool for achieving social change, improved health and decision-making. In addition, investing in formal education yields high social and economic return, increasing economic growth and sustainable development in less progressive nations.
According to UNESCO, of the 110 million children out of school in developing nations, 60 percent are girls. The high rate of illiteracy and lack of education in most developing countries remains a severe impediment to the advancement of women and these nations as a whole.
An internationally recognized example of a female who fought and is still fighting for females' right to education is;“MALALA YOUSAFZAI”.
WHO IS MALALA YOUSAFZAI?
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban.
Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her.
Early Life
Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley.
For the first few years of her life, Yousafzai's hometown remained a popular tourist spot that was known for its summer festivals. The area began to change as the Taliban tried to take control.
Education Activist
Yousafzai attended a school that her father, educator Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. After the Taliban began attacking girls' schools in Swat, Yousafzai gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September 2008. The title of her talk was, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?"
In early 2009, when she was just 11 years old, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai. However, she was revealed to be the BBC blogger in December of that year.
With a growing public platform, Yousafzai continued to speak out about her right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. That same year, she was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.
Yousafzai and her family learned that the Taliban had issued a death threat against her because of her activism. Though Yousafzai was frightened for the safety of her father — an anti-Taliban activist — she and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child.
Shot by the Taliban
On October 9, 2012, when 15-year-old Yousafzai was riding a bus with friends on their way home from school, a masked gunman boarded the bus and demanded to know which girl was Yousafzai. When her friends looked toward Yousafzai, her location was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head; the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the attack.
Malala didn’t let the attack prevent her from getting to her goal . Instead, Nine months after being shot by the Taliban, Yousafzai gave a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday in 2013. Yousafzai highlighted her focus on education and women's rights, urging world leaders to change their policies.
Following the attack, Yousafzai said that “the terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
Yousafzai also urged action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism:
“The extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women... Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”
Following Malala's story, the females need to stand up for our
“RIGHT TO EDUCATION”.
In the next series of FEMALE EMPOWERMENT, we’ll be looking at the independent nature of the females….
Watch out for the next series😎😎✔️✔️✔️
FEMALE EMPOWERMENT
Case study: Education As a medium for Female empowerment
In this edition of female empowerment, our focus will be on the aspect of “RIGHT TO BE EDUCATED”.
I know that you may be wondering jif females are still being deprived of their right to be educated in this so called “Era of tech” and the shocking truth is “Yes”. Millions of females out there are being deprived of their right to be educated due to the ancient believe that it will be a waste of time as they would sooner or later be tied down in the kitchen but this isn’t true hence, this belief should be trashed.
The following are countries in which females are being deprived of the right to education:
CAMBODIA
Almost the entire educated class in Cambodia was eradicated when the forceful Khmer Rouge assumed power in the 1970s. The aftermath can still be seen today, as most women’s education comes to a halt at the onset of, or before, puberty, with only 15 percent of women seeking higher education. For the overwhelming majority of women, their fate is to suffer from domestic violence or marital rape and work in the rice fields or as prostitutes as early as age 13.
PAKISTAN
The lack of formal education for women in Pakistan made headlines recently when the Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head for pursuing her right to learn. The education rate for Pakistani women is among the lowest in the world. Over half of Pakistani girls are not educated, and according to the World Economic Forum Gender Parity Report, Pakistan has the world’s second lowest rate of female employment. Now, the Malala Fund, named in her honor, endorses the education and empowerment of girls in Pakistan and around the world.
NEPAL
In Nepal, only seven percent of students actually make it to the tenth grade, and the ratio of boys to girls is practically 2:1. A female’s education is not as important as a male’s, and thus, many Nepalese young women are sold into bonded servitude or raised to learn to run a household. There are, however, glimmers of hope, as many associations are now running initiatives to provide additional educational support for Nepalese women.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is notoriously one of the hardest places in the world to be a woman. One of the most startling statistics we’ve found is that nine out of 10 women are illiterate: About 40 percent of Afghan girls attend elementary school, with only one in 20 girls attending beyond the sixth grade.
Not only do many women face death threats on their way to school, such as acid being thrown in their faces, but they are also forbidden to learn with boys, which makes finding an accessible school even harder. Since thousands of young girls are forced into child marriages at a considerably young age, they miss out on any chance of receiving an education
Chad
Chadian women face cultural and social challenges that make it exponentially more difficult for them to attain an education. They have one of the highest rates of underage marriages in the world, and education is seldom a priority with their husbands controlling every facet of their lives. Orphans, child laborers and impoverished kids are unable to go to school in Chad -- only 10 percent of girls have even completed elementary school.
Papua New Guinea
Despite publicized initiatives to increase a woman’s access to education in Papua New Guinea, 60 percent of females are illiterate and that number is even worse in more rural areas. Primary education remains neither free nor compulsory, while violence against women is almost a mainstay. Even worse, village judicial systems relying on customary laws do little to rectify this grave situation.
Haiti
In Haiti, one-third of girls over the age of six never go to school and the numbers are even more staggering for those living in remote areas. The estimated annual cost to send a child to school (uniform, books, materials and transportation) is equivalent to 131 US dollars, yet extreme poverty makes it extraordinarily difficult to afford this cost, let alone have one less child laborer to help provide for the family. With such hardships, it’s not completely astonishing that about 38 percent of the country cannot read or write.
Egypt
Last month, Thomas Reuters Foundation declared Egypt to be the worst Arab state for women in the world. After the Islamist political party, Muslim Brotherhood, came into power in 2012, women’s rights have been drastically curtailed, including their right to an education -- a freedom they had previously pursued.
Since the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted from power earlier this year by the Egyptian military, the interim government is trying to rectify their previous mistakes, including women’s rights. It is interesting to note, however, that before the 2011 revolution in the country, Egypt had one of the better education rights for women in the Middle East.
Guatemala
In Guatemala, about 15.6 percent of the female population is educated to at least secondary school, compared to 21 percent of males. Women are traditionally viewed as having a domestic role and, thus, are not encouraged to attend school. On top of crippling poverty, the need to earn a living outweighs the expense and time that obtaining an education requires. Even if a family can afford to send at least one child to school, it will usually send the boy.
The above listed countries are only but a little percentage of the total number of countries that deprive females of their right to education.
Equal education, besides being a basic human right, is an essential tool for achieving social change, improved health and decision-making. In addition, investing in formal education yields high social and economic return, increasing economic growth and sustainable development in less progressive nations.
According to UNESCO, of the 110 million children out of school in developing nations, 60 percent are girls. The high rate of illiteracy and lack of education in most developing countries remains a severe impediment to the advancement of women and these nations as a whole.
An internationally recognized example of a female who fought and is still fighting for females' right to education is;“MALALA YOUSAFZAI”.
WHO IS MALALA YOUSAFZAI?
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education advocate who, at the age of 17 in 2014, became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban.
Yousafzai became an advocate for girls' education when she herself was still a child, which resulted in the Taliban issuing a death threat against her.
Early Life
Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley.
For the first few years of her life, Yousafzai's hometown remained a popular tourist spot that was known for its summer festivals. The area began to change as the Taliban tried to take control.
Education Activist
Yousafzai attended a school that her father, educator Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. After the Taliban began attacking girls' schools in Swat, Yousafzai gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September 2008. The title of her talk was, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?"
In early 2009, when she was just 11 years old, Yousafzai began blogging for the BBC about living under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai. However, she was revealed to be the BBC blogger in December of that year.
With a growing public platform, Yousafzai continued to speak out about her right, and the right of all women, to an education. Her activism resulted in a nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. That same year, she was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.
Yousafzai and her family learned that the Taliban had issued a death threat against her because of her activism. Though Yousafzai was frightened for the safety of her father — an anti-Taliban activist — she and her family initially felt that the fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child.
Shot by the Taliban
On October 9, 2012, when 15-year-old Yousafzai was riding a bus with friends on their way home from school, a masked gunman boarded the bus and demanded to know which girl was Yousafzai. When her friends looked toward Yousafzai, her location was given away. The gunman fired at her, hitting Malala in the left side of her head; the bullet then traveled down her neck. Two other girls were also injured in the attack.
Malala didn’t let the attack prevent her from getting to her goal . Instead, Nine months after being shot by the Taliban, Yousafzai gave a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday in 2013. Yousafzai highlighted her focus on education and women's rights, urging world leaders to change their policies.
Following the attack, Yousafzai said that “the terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
Yousafzai also urged action against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism:
“The extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women... Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”
Following Malala's story, the females need to stand up for our
“RIGHT TO EDUCATION”.
In the next series of FEMALE EMPOWERMENT, we’ll be looking at the independent nature of the females….
Watch out for the next series😎😎✔️✔️✔️
