Gabby Martino
10:30 PM
Friday, April 24th
The war in Iraq has caused many families to be broken due to death. It is estimated that there is between one and three million Iraqi women widows. This has caused a lot of financial burden for these women who relied on their husbands to make all of the money. The women have been recieving money from the government to help support themselves and their children, but it is not enough. The women are claiming that that want to work to support their families and that the government is not doing enough in this crisis.
I think that even though this is a very sad story, I think that this will help in the movement for equal rights for women in the middle east. Women did not have to work before, but now that they do, they will have more opportunites and will eventually start to be looked at differently by others. When the US began fighting in World War II, this was also seen when many women began to enter the work force. It set the women's movement in motion and women have been working ever since. While there will be many years of hardship for the Iraqi women, if they do begin working then hopefully their rights will be soon to follow.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-22-voa18.cfm
1 comment:
After reading this article I was a little upset at the fact that the government is not offering the support that they should to the wives of widowed husbands. I think if the women are willing to work that the government should assist them in finding some kind of employment, if not I think that the government should offer the wives more money to support their families.
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