Robbins Nine Girls

The documentary, Half the Sky Part II: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2012), is based off of a book written by Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The setting of this documentary is in three poor countries, Kenya, Somaliland, and India. This is a nonfictional documentary where maternal mortality, prostitution, and economic empowerment tend to be common constant struggles in many developing countries. Kristof and WuDunn travel with three talented celebrity activist to witness these struggles first hand and helped spread global awareness. These celebrities come face to face with three passionate women in each country who fight daily to make a difference and change women’s inequality in their countries. Women in these countries and in many other countries deal with maternal mortality, sex trafficking, violence, and discrimination threats every day. Some women do not know different and are lead to believe this is their destine while others are frightened and are begging for change. Although, these countries are on different parts of the map they have common struggles due to common causes.

Education is one of the most important contributors to having a successful future. In developed countries such as North America boys and girls are fortunate enough to have access to an unbiased education system. Therefore, allowing children to have countless opportunities. However, in countries like Afghanistan girls are marginalized and neglected the right to learn. Afghanistan is a country of war, where women and girls are often the worst victims. In 2011, Afghanistan was known as the most dangerous place in the world for a girl to be born (Kissane). Malala Yousufzai, a female education activist was also a victim of war. Yousufazi was shot in the head and neck for advocating for girls and their rights to have access to education. Similarly, to Yousufzai many women in Afghanistan stand up for their entitlement to having equality. Those courageous women often become victims of abuse and are often killed. Investing in girls’ education is critical, not only is it life-altering for a girl’s future, but it’s also poses benefits to society. By allowing Afghan girls access to educating we are also promoting better socioeconomic s, a reduction in child marriages, and an improvement in mortality rates.

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls

For all of the progress that the movement to increase the education of girls around the world has made in the last few decades, there was an important piece missing that could have increased the international awareness of the movement: A face

Today, I stand here to express my concerns about nearly 130 million girls who do not have the opportunity to receive an education. As we all know, despite much advancements taken towards achieving gender equality in developing countries, there are still numerous girls, who don’t have access to quality education. Countless barriers stand in the way of girls’ education, however, gender norms seem to be the major. Due to this, girls don’t have the right set of circumstances to attend school, as their contributions at home are valued more than their education. I am just one girl, who was nearly killed for speaking up for girls’ education. Yet, in several developing nations, millions of women remain suffering from the terrible consequences of standing up to achieve their goal of education. Just because girls are focused to be independent to fight for themselves, are you automatically compelled to not take action on something you understand is wrong? NO. It is evident that we must help women's right to education. So, today I, Malala, stand here, to speak for not myself, but for those, whose voices cannot be heard.

Girl Rising was directed by Richard E. Robbins and released in the USA in March, 2013. The documentary was produced by 10x10, The Documentary Group, Vulcan Productions, GATHR, CNNFilm and Intel - the world’s largest media group and a multi-billion dollar corporation. The producers have presented a film that is primarily based on engaging with the emotion associated with marginalised young girls from across the globe, living in very challenging cultural settings. Some techniques in the film distract viewers from applying a more critical eye to the film. The 2013 film, Girl Rising is on one hand a valuable awareness raising film – but it is a flawed motion picture.

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” This statement from the book I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai indicates the issue that women all over the globe have faced injustice. They have been taken for granted, limited to certain extents, or sometimes have taken their own rights for granted--which causes the lack of prosperity. People in some lands take for granted having an education while others are striving to get one. However, Malala Yousafzai stands up and speaks for women's right to have an education, giving the introverted female a powerful voice. This message conveys to readers the importance of Yousafzai's influential voice and journey that changed the world.

It is preposterous to imagine that there are still countries and societies in the world today that view males as superior over females, yet this is a reality for many females in Pakistan as demonstrated in the autobiography, I Am Malala. Malala Yousafzai, within her self-titled book, explains her life, the hardships she has faced, and the experiences she has gone through as a female in a Muslim country where the Taliban and countless others use religion to undermine women. Throughout this literary work, the feminist theory and its effect on the autobiography is seen within the oppression that Malala and many others girls go through, and this in turn, affects Malala’s writing as it comes from the perspective of an oppressed, female teen who is explaining the gender inequality occurring in her homeland. The aforementioned theory is especially noticeable in I Am Malala when examining the superiority of males over females, the social restrictions that define the roles of females, and the limitations set

Many children around the world suffer, because of lack of money of education. This, keeps them from being able to be successful, and have achievements like the children in developed countries. "Girl Rising," a Netflix documentary directed by Richard E. Robbins, tells the story, of the dangers of being a girl in many developing countries, where slavery, sexism, and torture is still present. Will these girls' story change your view on how you educate yourself, and how you treat public education?

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.

Malala is probably the most famous girl activist who is in favor of girls education, but she’s not the only one that's changing the way the world views girls education and women's rights. These other activists come from all over the world and they are passionate about making the way women and girls are treated, better. They have come over the barriers that are between them, such as religion and culture and haven't stopped until they reached their goals. Women's rights and girls education are issues that affect many women and girls around the world. We need to take an initiative and help these people who are in need of a voice against these injustices. Here are a few.

One of the biggest hurdles that can eradicate extreme poverty is to increase and funding of the education of women. In the article “Educating Girls: The Key to Tackling Global Poverty,” author Laura Paddison strongly argues that the gender view of some countries prevents women from becoming educated and working. This is one of the main causes that puts the family in extreme poverty because that family is only relying

In this scenario, the girl child has a doublefold war front to fight it out for herself-one being the older women who do not allow the girl to rise, as, they do not seem to understand the need for it, and the other is the male counterpart who have the fear of seeing her become an equal as, this will snatch away from the man his centuries old platform of domination from him. In reality, what the present situation is in India is also true about the whole world but of course it is not as bad as it is in India and this is because of lack of education among the girls.

First of all, in the world that we live in today many girls education is being neglected and ignored mainly in developing countries. Girls education is mainly being ignored because many countries just don't have the money to set up schools for girls because in most of these nations boys are sent to school rather than girls and cant be educated in the same places for religious reasons. It is reported by The Global Partnership for education that In Yemen 28% of girls were dropped out of schools by parents because there was a lack of single sex classrooms and female teachers. ( Global Partnership for education secretariat). Another major reason girls education is neglected because in many countries were girls don't go to school there are agencies that work against girls education and want girls

Education: to this day, young girls still do not have access to basic education. Nearly of girls of 100 million children, are currently not attending school (UNICEF, 2015).