Review the World Bank's Gender Statistics page
Do some internet research to locate a nonprofit that works on global gender issues. Read their information, and see if you can find more. Write a blog about what you find. If you focus on one or two countries you can use the Gender Statistics. Write about how women are treated in your country. Are their lives improving in any way? What changes have they brought about? What changes have come from international organizations or nonprofits?
Do some internet research to locate a nonprofit that works on global gender issues. Read their information, and see if you can find more. Write a blog about what you find. If you focus on one or two countries you can use the Gender Statistics. Write about how women are treated in your country. Are their lives improving in any way? What changes have they brought about? What changes have come from international organizations or nonprofits?
The first thing I found on this was that there was a significant problem with a global gender problem. I is important that women in developing countries become more self-reliant to pull them self’s out of poverty. By empowering women it will better the economy of the country of origin. Because if the balance of gender in the labor force will balance out and education can be spread over a larger amount of the population that will average out the country.
My country of origin is American and women have equal rights as men. But when I went to Iraq I saw many examples of women being mistreated and abused and all was social and legal. For a example men are allowed to punish their wife’s as they see fit. Also women have to walk 10 feet behind the male at all times and are not allowed to communicate with anybody out side of the family. Women are treated more like property and slaves then human beings.
Because of modern times many developing countries are banning old laws towrds women such as stoning and none equal rights. Such as in Pakistan, if a woman comets adultery she could be put to death and if the male comments the same crime he suffers fines and sometimes no punishment at all.
Many organizations are developing plans to develop laws that protect women and to develop equal rights. Such as world bank, that is developing a Gender action Plan (GAP).
"Gender." World Bank Group. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. <http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTGENDER/0,,menuPK:336874~pagePK:149018~piPK:149093~theSitePK:336868,00.html>.
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