For a long time, girls have been denied the right to obtain an education as well as being forced to drop out of school. In many countries, they are forced into slavery (e.g. bonded labor, and human trafficking), and marriage. According to UNFPA, 14 million girls under 18 will be married this year; 38 thousand today; 13 girls in the last 30 seconds. By marrying too young, these girls increase their chances of becoming pregnant when their bodies are not fully developed. As stated by the World Health Organization, the #1 cause of death for girls 15-19 is childbirth. For the majority, these girls want to go to school but they are forced to do the opposite. This growing concern about girls’ education has caused many people to speak out on the issue. …show more content…
In the book I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala states, “I don’t want to be thought of as the “girl who was shot by the Taliban” but the “girl who fought for education.” This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.” Ever since Malala was young, she had always yearned to learn. Unlike most male figures in the country, her father always pushed for girls’ to receive an education. Growing up, Malala was taught about the importance of education from her father. When she saw girls not attending school, it sadden her. She was one of the fortunate ones to be able attend school and have her a male figure’s support. As time went on, she developed the same passion that runs through her father’s veins. She was immensely passionate about girls’ education that she even risked her life for the cause. Similarly, I also value my education. Growing up, my parents also taught me the importance of education. Every day, they would remind me to do well in school. During middle school, I had wanted to become a teacher because I enjoyed helping kids achieve greatness through education. I would even play teacher with my little
Most adolescentes dread Mondays because they signify the start of the school week. They complain about all the work they need to do, and how they have very little free time, but they do not realize how fortunate they are to have an education, and how many people would love to be in their place. A good education is not easily accessible in many countries, especially for girls. When Malala Yousafzai encountered this problem, she began to work tirelessly to fix it, which has made her one of the most respected education activists in the world. She often used civil disobedience to create positive changes in society. Yousafzai’s childhood, advocacy in Pakistan, and more recent actions are all significant parts of her character and her journey to
Malala’s father grew up in Shahpur but struggled to get his education in the town where he met Malala’s mother. They married and his dream of building a school, Khushal Public School, became reality when they moved into Mingora. Soon after, Malala was born and a favorite of her father’s. He taught her the value of education and how he had to struggle and claw his way to get a decent education. He preached that every person should have the right to go to school and be educated.
The impacts socially of the gendercide include women being married younger and younger due to the lack of suitable age females. This young marriage and the pressures on the young girls to provide families causes them to miscarriages and create harm to their underdeveloped bodies. In addition to younger marriages, high rates of prostitution become a problem. Most girls will be stolen and sold into sex trafficking. The lack of females causes male tensions to be high with no female perspective to calm down all the male testosterone in the environment. With no females to marry and love, they turn to illegal practices to satisfy their desires. The marriage of such young females also hurts their opportunity to grow and develop as women in society. They lose their chance for education, and they settle down to simply raise children. This also
2nd Connection: This quote shows that Malala and her family also possessed valuable morals and ethics that are proper although not accepted within society. Under those circumstances is why Malala felt the need to stand up for her education and stand up for the female minority and education.
Since adolescents tend to make decisions that put their education at risk, educational programs are put in place to help students not make those mistakes and stay in school. Especially the problem stated by Kaufman where he observed that in a class of girls, average age being 17 and 18, fifty percent have babies and half of these females would bring their children. If a female has to worry about more than one person, she will feel the need to drop school in order to care for the child. In order to prevent birth rates to be high among adolescent girls, sexual education programs have been put in place, so that females can concentrate more on school instead of raising a child. This leads to female students not having children at a young age, so the young females can have more time on self-improvement and graduate. Another problem that is being lowered in order to improve graduation is the failing classes. Adam says that if a student has a month where grades are low, it can lead to the student failing and just giving up. Sometimes by supervising behavior and having a student let out his or her stress, grades can get better because if a student is having problems at home or making decisions that put them in troubling situations, this leads to them not focusing 100% on school work. If students do not focus on schoolwork, they will not do well in school, and they will not graduate. Sometimes it is not a majo...
Why she’s awesome: Not only is Sheryl a powerhouse in the technology world, but she also has a family, including a beautiful daughter, who she makes her number one priority. She often discusses the idea that women tend to leave their successful careers when they start a family, however Sheryl is walking proof that a woman truly can have it all. Her decision to receive a degree in Economics from Harvard Business School has paved the way for the respect she has earned to date. Oftentimes, when we picture a powerful business woman, we think of the cut-throat woman who isn’t afraid to tear others down. I’ve never liked that image very much. Sheryl shows us that we can be powerful, kind, successful, and empathetic all at the same time. Those are
In her autobiography, Malala shows her admiration for her father. Malala’s father was a school teacher that works very and hard to fulfill his dream of building a school. His focus shifted once his first-born child was a girl. Ziauddin Yousafzai Malala’s father thinks that girls should have the same opportunity as boys to get educated and selected any professional field desired. It rejects the common traditions that place woman at the same level than an object Ziauddin Yousafzai ideas were rejected and condemn by the Taliban which had gained gradual power in the region where they
July 12nd 2013. Malala celebrated her 16th birthday. It was the day her first major speech held at the U.N after Taliban’s attempt to assassinate her for promoting education for females.
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In the biography ‘I am Malala’ by Malala Yousafzai, two important characters are Malala and her father. In this essay, I will describe what lessons Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, has taught the audience. I will also compare these two characters and see the similarities and differences that they may have. The biography ‘I am Malala’ is about the life of 14 year old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban for standing up for women's education.
Each day, 25,000 or more children are married and become child brides: and in Yemen, over fifty two percent of girls are married before eighteen years old, and fourteen percent are married before the age of fifteen(“Laws Fail to Stop Child Marriage”), which is the highest rates of child marriages in the world. In Iraq, however, eleven percent of girls are married before eighteen (“Child Marriage: Legalized Rape?”) while a new law in Iraq could lead to girls as young as nine years old getting married and having to submit to sex whenever her husband wants. (Aly)Sometimes, girls as young as ten would be forced to marry men up to four or five times their age(Birkett) and a husband can have sex with his wife regardless of consent(“Humanitarian News and Analysis”). Children ten to fourteen are five times more likely to die during childbirth than women in early twenties because their bodies aren’t physically equipped for childbirth.(Baz) “Married underage girls are subjected to physical and psychological suffering”(“Humanitarian News and Analysis”). This is disturbing because while in India, the percent of arranged marriages is 90% of all marriages in India, almost all being younger than eighteen.(Gorney and Sinclair). By the end of the decade an estimated 142 million girls will be married before eighteen years old, while one in three girls in the world are married before eighteen, while one in nine are married before fifteen. 400 million women in the Middle East between twenty and forty nine were married before eighteen. (Al-Ansi) These numbers shock people in America, but in the Middle East, arranged marriage and pre pubescent marriage is nothing to blink an eye about. This leads to the conclusion that even though Islam constitutes ma...
We chose girls of this particular demographic because research has shown that this region has been lacking access to education about women’s health and other issues. When utilizing the word “health”, we would like to state that our definition of the word includes physical, mental and psychological aspects. That being said, in lacking education on women’s health, girls of this age group are particularly susceptible to have their education negatively impacted by child issues that include their reproduction, physical and/or sexual abuse as well as their lack of self-confidence. Furthermore, after analyzing research on girl’s education in the different regions of Pakistan we realized that it was not feasible to run a girl’s empowerment workshop in certain areas of the country. Therefore, we chose the region of South Punjab, which has been known to promote girls’
Child marriages are violating these young girls’ rights, taking them out of school, forces them to produce children before they are mature enough, causing many health risks, and robs them of the opportunity to make something
Child marriage is a global issue, transpiring in all parts of the world. Abducted from their home and family, young girls - below eighteen - are married off against their own will not only affecting the girls (mentally and physically) but the country as a whole. The organization, Too Young to Wed, says “… marrying them off at such a young age, they are putting the girls at risk and perpetuation the cycle of powerlessness and poverty.” Child marriages occurred throughout history and still an affair today due to society’s tolerance. And the number of young girls forced to wed increased and will continue to increase if society remains tolerant to this sensitive matter.
In the contemporary society, education is a foundational human right. It is essentially an enabling right that creates various avenues for the exercise of other basic human rights. Once it is guaranteed, it facilitates the fulfillment of other freedoms and rights more particularly attached to children. Equally, lack of education provision endangers all fundamental rights associate with the welfare of human beings. Consequently, the role of education and in particular girl child education as a promoter of nation states welfare cannot be overemphasized. As various scholars asserts, the challenges and problems faced by the African girl child, to enjoy her right to education are multifaceted. Such difficulties include sexual abuse, child labor, discrimination, early pregnancies, violence and poverty, culture and religious practices (Julia 219). Across the developing world, millions of young girls lack proper access to basic education. In the contemporary society, this crisis, which is particularly critical in remote and poor region of sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia have fascinated increased public attention. However, almost all global nation states have assured their commitment in addressing various girl child challenges and allowed a declaration to enable each young girl and boy receive education by the year 2015 (Herz and Sperling 17). This target was firmly established and approved in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. However, this study will focus on girls’ education in Africa and its impacts to their livelihood.