Dissolvement of Gender Inequality

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In Western cultures, many believe gender inequality is dissolving, especially in regards to education. However when examining statistical data between countries, the evidence clearly states the inequality gap between gender and education. A country with one of the widest disparities is Pakistan where only 26% of the entire female population is literate (Latif, 2014). The country has the second highest rate of children absent from school and two thirds of these children are female (Education for All Global Monitoring Report, 2012). With government officials lacking interest and the Taliban’s violent protests against female education, many Pakistani girls are denied the right to learn and forced into work instead (Latif, 2014). Because of these harsh situations, a brave young girl, Malala, stood up against the discrepancies and grasped people’s attention worldwide.
At just eleven years old, Malala began voicing her opinion regarding women’s education in Pakistan by writing for a blog (Brown, 2013). She was inspired by her father, Ziaddin Yousafzai, who was part of the anti-Taliban committee and recommended Malala for the blog (Gandhara, 2014). She spoke out against the Taliban, a radical political group, known for their extreme interpretations of the Islamic Law (Ahmad, 2012). Rural areas in Pakistan were ruled by the Taliban for a short year starting in 2008 (Ep Library, 2013). Before the Taliban’s influence, education for girls in rural populations was already lacking. Rural community members believed investing in girls’ primary education is wasteful because the majority of girls’ believed gender role is to serve their future husbands as good housewives and mothers and nothing more (Ali et al.,). However, the Taliban’s reign r...

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