“Equality for Women”
Ladies and gentlemen, doesn’t it feel so good to be equal? From back, girls and boys, women and men are expected by society to play certain roles and behave certain ways based on tradition, religion, and other believes which created disadvantages for women. They were limited women’s opportunity for education, employment and voting. Even women are inferior to men, physically, but men and women are equal in moral value and intelligence. This is the reason that I do believe that women should have the same right and opportunity as men. To make it to happen, everyone need to involve. So I would like to take this opportunity to be a voice for supporting Equality for women through my own view about the 3 things which I am going to share with you today. They are,
No.1 supporting girls and women’s education
No.2 to reduce gender employment gap for the workplace capacity of women
No.3 Increasing women’s voice and agency in the society
Let’s start with supporting girls and women’s education. In the 19th century, very few women have the same opportunity for education as men; girls were not sent to school. So, how a lack of education adversely effect girls? “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than standing army.” said Edward Everette, the former Us Secretary of state. The information from Empowerment International website, for every 100 boys that are out of school, there are 115 girls in the same situation across the world. Lack of education has an impact through out a women’s life cycle. Even before birth, female fetuses are killed in countries like India and China where birth of a baby girl is not preferred. This is because a girl would lead to a greater financial burden on the family to get her married and virtually no incomes. Education is the only tool that can break this intergenerational cycle of oppression, abuse, and poverty of women. Education has the power to transform societies. Educated women are more aware of their rights.
At the second part, gender inequality doesn’t make sense on any labors. Currently women across the developing world enjoy limited access to fair and decent work compared to men. Having more women in the workforce contributes to economic performance through several pathways. According to one study, greater female participation in the U.S. workforce since 1970 accounts for a quarter of current GDP. Another study indicates that the reduction in the male- female employment gap has been an important driver of European economic growth in the last decade. Promoting decent and productive employment and income opportunities equally for women and men is one of the key priorities of organization and government.
Last but not least, Increasing women’s voice and agency are valuable ends in themselves. And both voice and agency have instrumental, practical value too. Amplifying the voices of women and increasing their agency can yield broad development dividends for them and for their families, communities, and societies. Conversely, constraining women’s agency by limiting what jobs women can perform or subjecting them to violence, for example, can create huge losses to productivity and income with broader adverse repercussions for development. We argue that overcoming these deprivations and constraints is central to efforts to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.
Ladies and gentlemen, how many times that equality for women needs to be understood but then changed. It’s been a long time that no one country in the world can achieve gender inequality problems. The women, your mother, sister, your wife and daughter could feel free and equal as good as men. Everyone must be involved for it to happen.