World's Future Depends on Women's Equality

Blog 5: World's Future Depends on Women's Equality

This article is basically about the importance of women’s rights all over the world. Women in various parts around the globe are going through experiences that are being ignored. For instance, in the Filipino women are dying at childbirth because they do not have access to modern contraception. Also in Pakistan, girls are scarred with acid in payback for refusing marriage proposals. While everywhere, rights to reproductive services are almost always under constant attack.  The human trafficking of girls and women has gotten worse and is happening even in our own backyard of America. With all of this, not one of the inequalities have been geared towards men, why is this? In the Iran society, in the 1980s, the average women would have up to 7 children. When family planning was introduced, that number dropped to 1.6 and as a result, maternal mortality dropped and women’s literacy doubled. Many women entered into the work force to better provide for their families and attended universities. Iran’s leader has called to end the family planning programs and ban the female population from attending college because it is seen as a threat. Yet in the US, we are trying to fight for these women by investing $610 million, which is $2 per American per year, to help with the family planning programs. Maybe this will help lead them to the right direction of having more women’s rights and more power being in women’s hands.

The issues that are happening to women in other countries are unheard of by some Americans and are sometimes being ignored as well. Without their stories being heard, how will any change come about? It is a good thing that America is helping with the family planning in Iran, but what about the other countries that need help with family planning. Even in America, we have issues on our home soil with people trying to get rid of our family planning rights and if they do that then what? Men are going to make all of our decision about our bodies. Everywhere in the world women’s rights need to be reevaluated and equalized because we are half of the globe if not more and we matter just as much as the next male involved. If more women don’t get out and speak about issues that matter to us, there won’t be any more of our issues left because decisions will already be made for us! 

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