Chapter 9-10: Issue Investigator

I choose to talk about the issue of misogyny, which means the hatred of women. This issue is all around world to some extent but the majority of the population that it effects is the muslim population in the middle east. In many societies the Muslim law deems the women inferior to men. Women are killed in what is called honor killings or they would have their genitals cut, often they are kept out of school and the workplace. Women are openly beaten by their husbands if they misbehave, and if they ever show skin in public they are sometimes raped. A woman always gets less than a man. In court her testimony is half that of a man, and a woman inherits a lot less than a man would.
One example of this issue is when a husband made his wife prostitute herself just so he could feed his opium addiction. A lot of this issue came from the Koran where it specifically said that women were inferior, and they believe the Koran is the word straight from god. When in other religions like christiany or judiasm they overlook stuff like that, that is said.
Today there are some Muslims starting to try and get more equality for women but it is not working all that well, they are still treated like property, and the government they have accepts that and with everything else without the government really trying to change things it will most likely stay the way it is.






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Chapter 9 - 10 Summary

Chapter 9 starts off with the authors in Afghanistan interviewing an educated entrepreneur. This brings up the topics of how women are treated in Muslim countries. Muslim women are ranked as being treated the worst in their cultures. Without being able to see a male doctor, they have no choice but to face their illness resulting in death due to lack of medical attention. The authors also go on to discuss how oppression may not be only in the religion, but may have something to do with culture. Other religions have had beliefs of treating women unfairly and multiple wives, but they have stepped passed that and progressed into what they are today. Islam is still stuck in the past. The authors interview a nineteen year old woman named Ellaha. She was forced by family to marry her younger cousin, and as an educated woman wanting to continue her studies, she fought back. In doing this, she was beaten and forced to run away. Unfortunately the running away didn’t get her far, since she was spotted and sent to jail. The jail they have in Afghanistan is typically for young girls without their hymens intact, because it is frowned upon before marriage. Ellaha was kept here for her life was in danger from her angry father. Even brilliant Americans like Bill Gates comments on these countries only using half of their population (men) and leaving women out of the picture. This is also depriving the country of economic growth because if women worked, a lot more production could get done like it does in countries such as the United States and China, opposed to production from women in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Insurgent-

Sakena grew up in Northern Afghanistan. She was accepted to a University in Kabul, but unable to attend due to violence. She started a string of underground schools educating almost thirty eight hundred as a secret. Deals were made if it was kept secret then teachers could get paid to help. After the fall of the Taliban, Sakena was able to move her schools back to Kabul, and employ many women to teach and work, students to learn, and even progress her students into the Kabul University programs.

Chapter Ten – Investing in Education

This chapter begins with Dai Manju, who lived in the hills of China with her family. Her hut had no running water or electricity, and they had little to no belongings. Dai was forced out of school after sixth grade, because the $13 dollars a year her school cost, her family wanted to spend it on other things like rice for food. After a generous donation from some Americans of 10,000, Dai was able to finish all of her normal schooling, then went on to study accounting, to become the executive in a Taiwanese electronic company. She sent money back to her family, making them one of the richest in the village. Managing menstruation in girls helps them stay in school. Also deworming, more salt in their diets for increase in brain development, even bribery. Mexican families are given cash for keeping their children in school. School feeling programs have successfully helped in their nutrition.

Chapter 9-10 Local Organization Investigator

Chapter 9:
While reading chapter nine I came across the UNFPA organization. I knew that it had to do with the United Nations, but i did not know exactly what this was, so i decided to research this a little bit. UNFPA stands for, United Nations population fund. There mission is to promote the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. I think this is a really good mission, and one that is reasonable and can be achieved with a little bit of hard work and effort. The UNFPA works alongside governments in effort to achieve the mission of the organization. The three core areas of work are: reproductive health, gender equality and population and development strategies.

Chapter 10:
As i was reading chapter ten an organization that i cam across was the World Food Programme. I researched the World Food Programme and found that the World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian agency in the world. The World Food Programme supplies struggling nations with food when they are in need after a crisis. The World Food Programme was started in 1961. World Food Programme's mission is to make sure every man, woman, and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. World Food Programmehas five objectives: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies, Prepare for emergencies, Restore and rebuild lives after emergencies, Reduce hunger and under-nutrition everywhere, and last but certainly not least strengthen capacity of countries to reduce hunger. In 2011 World Food Programme hopes to be able to reach around 90 million people in more than 70 countries with assistance as needed.

During my research I find this Organization call [Horn Of Africa Women Groups.[HAWG] What these groups basically do is: building  hospitals provide health care center,give awareness of HIV & AIDS,provide education center and building schools,fighting against poverty,addressing other social problem such as the need for cleaner water.I choose  the need for cleaner water because  unclean water can be a crisis for those whom don't have access to clean water.For instance if people drink  unclean water they can get sick such as  cholera can result death if they don't get treated sooner that can be a crisis.The  fundraising can help these groups to provide more clean water to  those whom do not have access to clean water.Furthermore If a mother with a new born do not have access to clean water that new born more likely to die than to live.
  Therefore fundraising about clean water could be a good idea. Even  in America  some people are losing their tooth as a result of not having access to  cleaner  water.Potential plans about raising money could be sale water in my community one dollar for bottle water  and explain to them the reason why I'm doing it. Is to help those to get access to clean water the money would go to these groups HAWG and have  flier about the groups what they do their address and phone number the name of the people who's in charge.Sometime people can be sympathetic they might give more than one dollars or whatever they might have.The address is 30 Hillyard road Hanwell,London W7 1BH
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel 07590 91 9422 Person who's in charge Ms. Ayan Keynan Or  have some kind of event at the school to raise  money.

The main issue in chapters 6-8 is the high mortality rates of childbearing woman living in impoverished areas. The main problem is that many of the women having children are children themselves. Their bodies are not adept or ready to bear a child and many women do not have the financial or social support and even if the babies are born healthy many of them die from not having their shots done. Woman get fistulas which create such a bad odor that many people do not wish to help them and often these women commit suicide.More needs to help woman regardless of their financial situation, it shouldn't be up to the doctors or other people to decide when not to help someone everyone deserves a fair chance.

Local Organization investigator

Half the Sky chapter seven continue.One reason women died in childbirth has to do with anatomy,arising from two basic evolutionary trade-offs... I strongly believe if prudence had gotten Medical attention sooner when arrived at the hospital perhaps her death could have been prevented,regardless of  what major  factors are.She suffered too much,got infected,and died as a result of Dr.Pipi ignorance.Not because of  neglected human being in its care, not on that case.Her family took her to the Hospital,but then Dr.Pipi wants more money after he got the money he went home without doing nothing for her what a horrible Doctor.When he eventually decided operated her it was too late that  is exactly what happened in prudence case.

Chapter six,a thirteen year old girl,Mahabouba who was raised in a village near the town of Jimma.She was handed over to her father's sister as a result of her parents being divorced.Her aunt  treated  her like a  servant.Mahabouba  and her sister ran off together to town worked as maids.Her neighbor  sold her for ten dallars to Jiad who was about sixty year old.He raped her and beat her.Then she got pregnant when she was seven months she succeeded running away and lost the baby due to lack of support.Those people should have been helped  Mahabouba to save the baby's life.
Chapter seven,Why do Women  Die in Childbirth.A twenty four year old mother of three children, Prudence  had been living with her family in a village seventy five miles away,he had received no prenatal care.She went to labor at full term then  after three days of labor,the birth attendant sat on Prudence stomach and Jumped up and down.That so-called birth attendant should go jail .And also Dr,pipi is fully responsible for Prudence death as a result of unsympathetic greedy for money.Not prudence's rupture uterus because all Dr.pipi wanted is the $100 dollars when someone's life on the line a good Doctor should not worry about the money.He should have been worry about saving her life first of all, money later.His theory  got the best of him,no family member would lie about  life and death situation. It is not right to teach people a lesson cause someone's life.She died because of Dr.pipi not because of  four other major factor.She suffer too much, got infected,and die.With more education Prudence would have been less likely to have become pregnant,and if she had become pregnant,would have more likely to deliver in the Hospital instead have that birth attendant jumped up and down on her stomach.