preview

I Am Malala Yousafzai

Decent Essays

Being a female has many short-comings when it comes to legal rights. Females are often viewed as lesser-than in comparison to males. Lack of representation, lack of education rights, lack of status are all issues facing females in modern culture. Gender discrimination is not a new issue as females have been viewed as subordinates for years. Females being discriminated against is a matter that needs to be discussed and attention must be brought to it.
First, in Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, girls and women are treated unfairly such as girls are not allowed to attend school like boys are. Females are viewed as lower than males in her society. Matter of fact, with the birth of a baby girl others “have only sympathy for the mother” (Yousafzai 19). When girls are born no one celebrates like they do little boys only sadness is brought. In Yousafzai’s region fathers believe women are only here on earth to take care of house: “She doesn’t need an education to run a house” (Yousafzai 20). The men in her village often believe why waste education on someone who “doesn’t need”(Yousafzai 20) it. Malala fought for …show more content…

Other women watch and judge her: “And she laughs like a woman should never laugh so the two widows on the park bench stare and huddle their white-veiled heads to gossip-whisper” (Divakaruni 154). Women are expected to act a certain way and are believed that fun should never be endured. This woman had no care about the “light flecking off her hair as when she was sexless-young” (Divakaruni 154). Traditional rules were abandoned as her dupatta slipped off. She felt as if she was back to being a kid when all her responsibilities could just slipped away and she did not have to worry about the rules given to her by her beliefs. Women often are thought to need to be seen not heard and the text contradicts

Get Access