Empowering women and girls: The key to alleviating poverty
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- Опубликовано: 20 янв 2015
- Empowering women and girls isn't just the right thing to do, it's smart too. Learn how equal access to resources and opportunities helps women and their families (and entire countries) reach their full potential. Featuring Jaqueline Howard, Huffington Post Science Host and Producer.
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Education level of women in developing countries is directly proportional to the quality of life of her family in the future
At the 58 second mark she says, "no country can reach it's full potential by ignoring half it's population" for a supposed charity that purposely ignores half the population. I'm not sure if this is a parody or an advert for what blatant hypocrisy looks like.
you do understand that men aren't ignored right?
In fact in many countries they are the only ones that can inherit land or go to school. This is not about ignoring men, it's about reaching out to women who have NOT got the same opportunities as men
Thechirimbola While they're not explicitly stating to ignore men, you can understand how slanted the video comes off though, right?
Imagine reading a headline that said "to revive economy, Govt invests 10 billion in young male unemployment" and think of how sexist that sounds. Even if the article explains that male unemployment rates are 50% higher than of young females - a contextual comparison that this video doesn't give.
By focusing on one gender, one implies (partial) neglect of the other. That's the core reason why having few female politicians is seen as a problem; if there are only men, they only pay attention to male issues, and women get the short end of the stick. Similar applies here. The topic could have been framed much better by highlighting WHY we are focusing on women; because they get higher ROI and because they get less support so we should slightly prioritize them. Clearly showing both sides of the coin is a much fairer and more convincing argument.
For example; educated women are twice as likely to send kids to school". Okay, and for men? Educating them has no benefit? Or does educating women have twice the impact of educating men? Either way, men come off as dicks. As it turns out (after a quick google) the chances a kid goes to school are 18, 47, 56, and 70% if no parent, just father, just mother or both parents go to school. So actually for men too we see a significant increase in 'education inheritance' - just not AS much as for women, but not a 100% difference either. It clarifies that education has repeating effects (give a man a fish etc) but that because of a mother-effect, we are better off targeting women a bit more than men. It's much more honest, and not as condescending because it allows me to look at the information myself and conclude that, yes, what they're saying is right.
I don't like it when people give me only half of the statistics used to support a statement.
Or, help everyone equally. Regardless of gender, age etc.
If people stop thinking about Men and Women differently, social problems will solve themselves.
It's not about WHO in 3rd world countries, but how.
Not regardless of age
***** Well, people of different ages will need different TYPES of help. but not different LEVELS of help.
So, I'd say yeah. Help people of different ages equally, too.
pipnina stupid babies get a job and stop drooling on yourself ..... fucken stupid babies .....
I see what you're saying pipnina ,but they're not saying they're planning on helping only women. What the foundation is saying is it wants opportunities for women to be equal to those of men.
But there is a fact you cannot ignore and that is that women have unequal opportunities to men, by ignoring those problems you are not helping the entire situation. This is a matter that needs to be addressed so to live in a better more prosperous world.
A man named Christopher Hitchens advocated this idea years ago and for the same reasons.
He referred to it as "raising the floor".
Since then, we have had Sharia law imposed in one nation after another, forced sterilizations in China (our greatest world trading partner), and a recently installed Supreme Court Justice whose faith includes the belief that women were created by God to serve men.
Judeo-Christianity, Islam and even Communism, the ideologies and dogma of a great portion of the world are in fact "patriarchal" societies and that will not change without conflict.
The tide is turning, but there are those who will only relinquish power when it is wrested from their cold dead hands.
Until women are no longer considered "property" EVERYWHERE, there will be poverty.
It is a noble fight, and it must be won for the sake of all humanity.
Funny you said that, just came here from Hitchens' quote. It's a great point.
Women have brought about the same amount of meaningful change as a broken down car. Give women the opportunity to succeed I can agree with that, give them education. But by focusing just on women you ignore a group of people called men who effect a lot of the change in the world. Bill Gates and other took the power and defeated all odds. You see very few women even in the United States doing things similar to what Gates does.
So let's ignore half the population with our program....smart.
I know right so smart of them to focus more on the half that needs more help for equal rights!
Sam Socioeconomics are the most important thing by miles and miles. "Empowering" is a vague meaningless word and it's also a sham. You can't socially program a 3rd world country, especially one that is not economically viable.
Long story short: When people are well off, women get treated better. When people are poor, women get treated worse.
Rx.. What does that have to do with my comment?
Is there some law which requires shops to refuse sale of mobile phones and tools to women? Why don't they have the same access men do?
More education of women in Africa in the Middle East is needed but in the western world young men and boys are doing worse in Education.
If the West is anything to go by women are far more likely to drop out of work when they have children so focusing resources on them is a waste.
90% of female income goes towards their family? What is the percentage for men?
Men are more likely overall to spend it on gambling, alcohol and misusing substances. Not that women do not do this, they just do it to a lesser scale.
And to address your other point women do not have the same access men do, in many countries in subsaharan Africa males are seen as the powerhouse and if they die terrain is never inherited by females: this means women have less power and therefore less access to resources
2 billion people are not in poverty. That stupid stat was calculated using currency transformations. Not taking factors like a country's per capita gains and in border currency buy power into account. People can live a middle class life with 300$ a year in Liberia. They're still considered to be in poverty while they're clearly not.
The statement about ignoring half of the population was a bit ironic, easily my least favorite Gate's video.
Have we not learned that defining people by gender or race is poisonous to progress? True equality is blind.
Be realistic ffs.
The GDP measures wealth not health.
The "economy's health", not the " population's health".
Mike Trieu But she is speaking the whole video about the populations health connecting this with the GDP is quite misleading.
***** Oh yes you are right because rich countries always having excellent medical care.
***** Cuba is a developing country and has a better medical care than most rich countries. The GDP doesn't reflect the health of it's citizens.
Not in first world countries. American feminists this whole thing excludes you compeltely.
This video is not about feeding women and not men!!! It's about a different problem!
I feel like most people that are commenting seem to be against helping women just because they missed the whole point of the video. In many places of the world woman are either forced by their family or community to not reach their potential, or are just raised up to believe that's how it should be. To change that, to change mentalities, to make women more productive, to make them as productive as men you need action, you need to address a lot of problems so this discrimination happens less, and this takes money.
Why help the women and girls and not help the men and boys with this issue? Are you suggesting empowering boys to reach the potential that was repressed by the matriarchy? Sure, in the places where that is the case. But in most places around the world women have been the ones discriminated and therefore the men aren't the ones that need empowering in those places.
If we hope to eliminate poverty (or reduce it as much as possible) we need to help women break free from these archaic customs so they can be as productive and have the same chances as men. It's a NECESSARY process. One of many.
Is this a fucking joke
Why? Because a women had something to say about empowerment? How is that a bad thing. Oh yeah, your the guy who hates on this sort of thing. You can't stand women saying what they feel.
For some reason I can't cancel the posting of this comment. Oh well.
Tell women to priotise their career and make money, tell them take on ALL the work men are doing. Every high paying job women are not interested in doing because its too scary. In my country they deliberately tried to hire more female workers... what did they find? Not many women actually wants to do road works or contracts its always men, and the women that try to make a difference and join guess where they end up? They end up helping directing the traffic. Its a wast of bloody time. Mean while all the guys that were in the same group are operating all the heavy machinery and managing the projects making 2-3 times more money.
Lot of psychos in the comment section