I Am Malala Inequality

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Inequality of Women Worldwide
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” In many places around, men are entitled to rights and opportunities that society often denies women; this inequality occurs for women in education, jobs, the community, and roles in their family. Society discourages women from receiving an education while society promotes males to pursue an education. In many continents, such as Africa and Asia, women strive for the ability to learn, develop, and obtain the same opportunities as men despite the consequences of beatings, sexual abuse and other troubling events that lie ahead. Communities, countries, and the circumstances of the girl’s birth drastically limit
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Obstacles such as inequality, injustice of rights, and discrimination emerges everywhere for women and girls. In the memoir I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai shares her story about how difficult life was growing up as a girl in Pakistan. Males place restrictions on women and girls to limit what they could or could not do and were expected to remain inside caring for family matters. As girls become older, society expects the girls to stay inside to cook, serve their brothers and fathers, and do housework instead of attending school (Yousafzai 26). They often lost hope and courage to fight for an education because “There seemed no point in going to school just to end up cooking, cleaning, and bringing up the children…” (Yousafzai 40). Men and boys frequently place themselves above women in every aspect of a female’s live. In Malala’s tradition on the seventh day of a child’s life, they hold a celebration called Woma for family and friends to treasure the newborn. Since Malala was not a boy, her grandfather refuses to pay; however, when her brothers came along, her grandfather wanted to pay (Yousafzai 58). To celebrate the birth of a son, families shoot rifles while parents hide their daughters behind curtains (Yousafzai 13). Inequality also occurs during breakfast, lunch or dinner; men and boys get cream or milk in their tea, eggs, and the breast meat from the chicken while girls and women get tea with no …show more content…
The Taliban restrict and instill fear of violence in girls and women’s mind. They ban women from laughing out loud, wearing white shoes, “as white was “a color that belonged to men,”’ and from wearing nail polish (Yousafzai 67). The Taliban oppose educating women because “they think that when a child reads a book or learns English or studies science he or she will become Westernized” (Yousafzai 162). As a result, the Taliban begin closing down girl schools. “By the end of 2008, around 400 schools have been destroyed by the Taliban” (Yousafzai 144). All girls’ schools closed by the end of 2008 and girls were warned they could not go to school (Yousafzai 146). Even after the Pakistan government regained control, many girls did not go back to school and the Taliban still tried to prevent girls’ education (Clark and Warhol 7). The Taliban additionally became very violent against women. They would throw acid in girl’s faces and started punishing people by holding public floggings (Yousafzai 160, 170-171). As Malala observed these practices, she was so scared at night that she would “check every single door and window. I’d go outside and make sure the gate was locked. Then I would check all the rooms, one by one” (Yousafzai

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