Chapter 11-12 Summary

In chapters 11-12 they talking mainly on women creating a better life for themselves. In eleven it talks about women in deep poverty and the microcredit organizations. Microcredit takes women who live in poverty and helps them create a better life for them and their family. One example is Saima Muhammad who had an unemployed husband who constantly beat her, and did not even have enough money to feed her children. She had to send her daughter away to live with a relative because there was not enough food to go around. Once she joined the microcredit program her life changed drastically, now she is planning on sending her kids through high school and even possibly college. Chapter twelve talks about equality in women and how it has kind of progressed over the years. Like in the beginning how it talks about the woman from china who created her own business with her husband. And people were happy to co-operate with her when she needed help. She ended up being known as the richest self-made woman in the world. Not to long ago this would of been inheard of.