Despite the lack of credibility of several data and evidences, the author successfully indicates the importance of giving higher education to women which in term can lead to the development of country.
The main point of the article “Educate Girls, Eradicate Poverty” by Hoon Eng Khoo is to emphasize the role of education, especially higher education in women’s lives with regard to increase their performance in both political and economic areas, and diminish the poverty. Firstly, the author highlights that since women’s ability to distribute the resources is more advanced than men’s, educating women, which results in increasing their participation in economic and political areas, can be an investment for the upcoming generation. Moreover, Ms. …show more content…
To begin with, for proving the notion of the creating leadership position is meaningless without educated women, the writer refers to the example about Afghanistan. The author highlights that “changes in Afghanistan” have offered women to take more responsibilities in both political and societal areas; however, having no trained women has turned into a barrier to it. Here, Ms. Khoo does not provide the reader with proper information and details, including exact year and changes; therefore, this data can be deemed unreliable and not persuasive enough. Even, giving example from Afghanistan for this issue has no substance and may falsify the reality. Ayubi (2010), who divides the history of Afghanistan into time periods, indicates that in 1994, under the Taliban’s regime, females were exposed to harsh treatments, and could not participate in government and civic societies. She also emphasizes that in today’s society, women occupy only 15 percent of the governmental jobs, which means changes in Afghanistan, does not give a chance to women for enhancing their roles in government. In addition, Ms. Khoo states that these “chances” fail because there are no appropriately-qualified women in Afghanistan. Nonetheless, according to The Asia Foundation’ s Survey of Afghan People (2009), women’s less participation in leadership positions and political life, is not only about poor skills, but also related to poor security in work places, controversy in regards to women’s working with other men, and disagreement about their earning money for the family. Shortly, all these facts reveal that giving unspecific information makes some parts of this article inconclusive and
The main point of the article “Educate Girls, Eradicate Poverty” by Hoon Eng Khoo is to emphasize the role of education, especially higher education in women’s lives with regard to increase their performance in both political and economic areas, and diminish the poverty. Firstly, the author highlights that since women’s ability to distribute the resources is more advanced than men’s, educating women, which results in increasing their participation in economic and political areas, can be an investment for the upcoming generation. Moreover, Ms. …show more content…
To begin with, for proving the notion of the creating leadership position is meaningless without educated women, the writer refers to the example about Afghanistan. The author highlights that “changes in Afghanistan” have offered women to take more responsibilities in both political and societal areas; however, having no trained women has turned into a barrier to it. Here, Ms. Khoo does not provide the reader with proper information and details, including exact year and changes; therefore, this data can be deemed unreliable and not persuasive enough. Even, giving example from Afghanistan for this issue has no substance and may falsify the reality. Ayubi (2010), who divides the history of Afghanistan into time periods, indicates that in 1994, under the Taliban’s regime, females were exposed to harsh treatments, and could not participate in government and civic societies. She also emphasizes that in today’s society, women occupy only 15 percent of the governmental jobs, which means changes in Afghanistan, does not give a chance to women for enhancing their roles in government. In addition, Ms. Khoo states that these “chances” fail because there are no appropriately-qualified women in Afghanistan. Nonetheless, according to The Asia Foundation’ s Survey of Afghan People (2009), women’s less participation in leadership positions and political life, is not only about poor skills, but also related to poor security in work places, controversy in regards to women’s working with other men, and disagreement about their earning money for the family. Shortly, all these facts reveal that giving unspecific information makes some parts of this article inconclusive and