The Future of Gender - engine of souls

mre · Senior Member

The Future of Gender

sagitta620lyc · Member

Education, especially for girls, has social and economic benefits for society as a whole.
Educated women have more economic opportunities and engage more fully in public life.
Women who are educated tend to have fewer and healthier children, and they are more likely to attend school.
Education also increases the ability of women and girls to protect themselves against HIV.

Chris C · Member

^^^those oppinions don't really surprise me at all, obvioulsy people who are educated are going to make better choices then uneducated women

1)Smoking has dropped among teenage boys, but risen among high school girls.
2)In Asia more often, girls tend to lose out. In some of these countries, only 75 girls are in school for every 100 boys.
3)Almost two thirds of the world's illiterate are women.
4)Out of the 550 million working poor in the world, an estimated 330 million, or 60 per cent, are women.
5)The difference is particularly evident in sub-Saharan Africa, where 84 per cent of women's non-agricultural employment is informal, compared to 63 per cent of men's.
6)the number of overweight adolescent girls doubled between 1994 and 1999, going from 7% of the population to 14%, with even more girls at risk
7)Furthermore, while cosmetic surgery among adults rose 25% from the previous year, representing a 173% jump since 1997, it dropped by 34% for teenagers after remaining level for the preceding five years

Amanda F · Member

^^^But i believe that uneducated people can make the same choices as someone who has an education its not necessarily only educated people who can make the right choices. we all mess up.

1. But 115 million children of primary school age are denied this right.
2. Almost two thirds of the world's illiterate are women.
3. The human rights of women workers are often overlooked or denied
4. Of the 15-24 year old young people living with HIV, 63 per cent live in sub-Saharan Africa and 21 per cent live in Asia-Pacific.
5. One-third of all women living with HIV are between the ages of 15 and 24.
6. In Ethiopia and some areas of West Africa, some girls get married as early as age 7.
7. Women who marry younger are more likely to be beaten or threatened, and more likely to believe that a husband might sometimes be justified in beating his wife.
8. Many men and women believe wife-beating is justified.
9. About 1 in 4 women are abused during pregnancy, which puts both mother and child at risk.
10. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, more than 80 per cent of those living with HIV are under the age of 30.

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ErinFeeney · Member

"Has It Happened to Someone You Know:
Students are most likely to report that someone at
school has done the following to someone they
know personally:
Made sexual comments, jokes, gestures, or looks
(71 percent)
Said they were gay or lesbian (61 percent)
Spread sexual rumors about them (61 percent)
Touched, grabbed, or pinched them in a sexual
way (60 percent)

Intentionally brushed up against them in a sexualway (53 percent)

and this all happens in our own country. our schools should be a safe place to learn, not a place to get harrased. maybe stuff like this is why there is such a high drop out rate????

-- Edited by ErinFeeney at 18:53, 2008-06-12

-- Edited by ErinFeeney at 18:55, 2008-06-12

sagitta620lyc · Member

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, more than 80 per cent of those living with HIV are under the age of 30.

Almost two thirds of the world's illiterate are women.

Out of the 550 million working poor in the world, an estimated 330 million, or 60 per cent, are women.