Susan B. Anthony, Jackie Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt; three powerful women, voices in the past that make a difference even today. They were feminists of their time. They influenced large groups of women to have a voice, they gave women the courage to demand to be treated equally as men. They wanted women to be treated as equals to men. Equal pay for equal work. They wanted the right to vote. They wanted to let the world know that women were people, just as men are, and people are people. People should be equal. These women made a huge impact on society. They were part of what lit the spark that lead to many global movements. One of those being a goal in The United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Although in America women are seen equally, for the most part, across the world that was (or is depends who you ask) the case. Education for girls is hard to find. Boys were the only ones given the opportunity to get a quality education. A good education is everything in the long run. It leads to social skills, business skills, worldly skills. Not being exposed to it, just for being born as a female was pathetic. The fact that 65% of women were at home not expanding their horizons, was saddening. That is the only way they knew. The world, the United Nations, decided things needed to change.
The target was: “Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.” The reason the main focus is education is because of women are provided the same education it gives them more opportunities. It gives women equal tools. I looked at Section 3 of the bill, I mostly understood it I think. It talked about how in some parts of the world there isn’t education available for girls as easy as it is for boys. We live in America we see how diverse in gender our school is. It is about equal, perhaps even more girls than boys. To imagine living in a place where that is uncommon and girls don’t even have the chance to attend school is ridiculous. The goal was to make it more equal in the classrooms across the world. It has been quite successful, but in some areas it’s still exclusive.
This article talks about how women all too often turned to the informal economy far more than men. That means they tend to just stay at home. They would lack as much interaction and knowledge a man would receive. Once this plan was set in motion, the rate of women working outside of agriculture raised a whole 5%!
It stated how women are slowly gaining roles in parliament and how it should increase. Year by year it has. Women are becoming more equal, even though on average they work for 23 cents less than a man. Women still don’t receive as sturdy a job as a man, worldwide. They are exposed to more vulnerable jobs typically. However, CEOs’ and large business executives usually are just men.
After exploring this article I saw that we are still far behind on gender equality, but we have come along way. I am very proud of how far we have come, but saddened to see how far we have to go. Equality is a very important issue to me. People are people. I have never understood why someone could consider another human being lesser than another. I have never once that being Hispanic, Asian, African, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, transgender, gay, bisexual, or a man could make anyone deserve less than me. Equality to me should not be an issue. It’s common sense to me, but unfortunately common sense is not all that common. I think these goals have made a difference in Gender Equality for women. Unfortunately, as a society we have not found equality with each other though. Maybe one day we will, but sadly enough I doubt that day will be in my lifetime.
I used the UN MDG document and I used this site as my source.
I put a picture of the logo of the Gender Equality sign for the UN DMG and girls petitioning for an education.
Comments
Excellent job! Very well written with great personal thoughts throughout!