Challenges Facing American Women

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Have you ever wondered what challenges teen women face in Arabic countries everyday? These countries include India,Chad,Yemen,etc. It’s a pretty horrible situation over there because Young girls and teen girls are forced into marriage at a young age, they also are raped and or abused, and most can’t get a good education.
Oh boy where do I start? One of the many challenges teen women face everyday is child marriage. Child marriage is when a young girl is forced to marry a man twice her age. Even now Women who live in 2018 are still forced into marrying men half their age. They have no say in who they marry or if they can reject the groom. This sounds like the 1800’s when women couldn’t vote. But if women do try to speak up about the marriage,
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For example Multiple women are beaten. Sometimes beaten to death if their husbands are mad enough. One teen girl even got her nose cut off al the way. (Child Marriage and Rape still legal in Yemen). Belivie it or not but women are sexaul abused almost everyday in Arabic Contries. Like Yemen,India,Etc. According to the site Facts and Figures-UN, “37% of Arab women have experienced some form of violence in their lifetime.” Most of this occurs from their grooms. Even more disturbing, the site noted that 99.3 percent of women and girls are victims to sexual harassment. How is this even still legal and why can’t we put an end to …show more content…
Due to some marriages Young girls are forced out of school to take care of their husbands. Also married young girls are forced to get jobs to pay for simple things like bills, food, and household items. Also if women do go to school they are sent to an all girl school if they wanted a education. Females in Egypt, Iraq,etc. Have an Illiteracy rate of high as 50 to 70%. That means cannot read or write. Which is sad because reading and writing can be a huge life changer for example Frederick douglass learned to read and write and then taught other slaves to read so they could be free. Take Malala for example she had a good education, but tho to the Taliban who didn’t agree with women going to school they shot her in the head, but she managed to survive the bullet shot and the nobel prize. She had to go through hours and hours of surgery. She was in a medical coma until October

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