Feel free to view the little video on women's rights that I did for a class presentation.
I came to know about Malala, a fourteen year old pakistani girl who was shot by taliban members, recently. She was shot because she was promoting freedom of choice and education for girls. Education should be an inalienable right, available to all. It is quite absurd that even today some women are deprived of their rights to education and the freedom to make their own decisions. Are they not allowed to make their own decisions because they are still deemed to be irrational, emotional, unable to reason and hence are always in need of male figures to make every single decision for them?
I still cannot understand why in some communities, men are afraid of women getting educated. Are they afraid that with education, women would become more powerful and they wouldn't be able to "control" them? Are they afraid that with education, women would loose a little of their culture, which would then be replaced by western beliefs? It gets so confusing and messy when culture and religion gets involved because most of the religions I know, are very patriarchal.
I still cannot understand why in some communities, men are afraid of women getting educated. Are they afraid that with education, women would become more powerful and they wouldn't be able to "control" them? Are they afraid that with education, women would loose a little of their culture, which would then be replaced by western beliefs? It gets so confusing and messy when culture and religion gets involved because most of the religions I know, are very patriarchal.
