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Annotated Bibliography: Because I Am Girl

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The wikipedia page that I will be expanding is “Because I am Girl (campaign). I will be working alone on this research. This a campaign wants to educated people and brings up the issue of gender discrimination around the world especially in United Kingdom, United States, Canada. Each country has its own goals and a website explaining what they do, what are their goals and how we can help. I will be expanding on the United States aspect on the state of the world’s girls 2015. It is about 160 pages giving statistics, facts and explaining what is happening to women around the world and what they have to face in 2015. It also explains the unfinished business of girls’ rights. Under these state of the world’s girl records of 2015, I will expand on two major subtopics: girls in the global economy and learning for life. For girls in the global economy subtopic, I can explain about the invisible work force of women and what impact will it have on the economic model. It argues that women are not an untapped economic resource in the world; their work is the invisible structure that keeps societies and economics together. Then I will also explain about …show more content…

It argues about the logic of girls’ education has never been hard to grasp. If you education a girl, she will be bale to make better life choices, earn a high income and contribute much more to her family and community life.It will also cover about “what about the boys?” where a young guy feminist talk about girl’s empowerment and why he is a feminist. He explains about how his two sister face challenges that he never did: threats of sexual violence, men coming into contact with them and, even when the girl’s were fairly young, asking them to marry them. Lastly, I will include a small poem “a century later” written by Imtiaz Darker and what impact does it have on women

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Adichie, with her “We Should All Be Feminists” Tedx Talk, persuades the audience that no matter what race, nationality or even age a person has, everyone should be a feminist. The main reason behind her argument is that feminism seeks equality in order to acquire a more just society. Moreover, Adichie describes how even women enforce patriarchal gender roles. She gives the example on how she gave money to a valet in a restaurant and he looked at her boy friend, who was accompanying her, and said “Thanks, sir,” as if the money was given by Adichie’s friend and not her. In this way, the speaker claims that this not only enforces gender roles, but also hurts boys when they are still developing their personalities and identities.

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