Malala Yousafzai: Inequality In Education Among Muslim Women

It began as an ordinary day in Mingora, Pakistan, for a young girl returning home from school on her school bus. Suddenly, a masked gunman rushed into the bus and shouted, “Who is Malala?” Her friends on the bus looked back at her, and in the blink of an eye she was shot on the left side of her face. This incident was the spark that ignited a call for change in education around the world. Malala Yousafzai was the face of this change. She made significant contributions to female education rights by being an education activist and urging children to speak out and fight for their rights. She forever changed the lives of Pakistani girls who today benefit from free education and resources with numerous schools around their country.

In Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb’s nonfiction book, I am Malala (2013), they promote their belief of speaking up and making a difference in the world by advocating the importance of education and communicating with words will help make the world more peaceful. The author first supports her beliefs by being a voice for girls in her country way before she was shot, by speaking through the media by becoming a BBC blogger and telling her story and fears for the future. She spoke up against the Taliban, even though they threatened her with death. Malala spoke out against the extremists who would twist the teachings of Islam in order to get what they desired. Not only does Malala speaks up about education, but she defends women’s rights. She

Malala Yousafzai, an activist for women’s education, is the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize at just the age of 17 years old. Not only was she the youngest, but she was also the first Pakistani to win the award. Malala has done many great things for women’s rights and has stood up for what she believes in time and time again. She wants women to have the same rights as men do and she wants women to have the same opportunity to receive a quality education like men do. Malala has shown that she would even die for her beliefs, showing this by taking a bullet to the head from the Taliban. However, she didn’t let this stop her. She embraced it and became a role model to many people around the world, encouraging women and all others

“Teenage girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking up about girls education.” This was what most headlines in October 2012 consisted of. Millions of girls are denied an education globally. Their lives are changed at such a young age as most are forced into arranged marriages. Malala wasn’t silenced by a bullet, she spoke out. Girls education is being denied around the world and is being addressed because women’s rights matter.

This speech was the first speech of many Malala gave in hopes of allowing girls to have the right to go to school. (Transition: This act of defiance against the Taliban was a turning point in the fight for girls’ education.) II. According to He Named Me Malala the Taliban “created the tradition that girls receiving an education was against Islam.”

As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai faced the brutality of gender inequality that the Taliban enforced. Ever since she was a young child, Yousafzai had been an advocate for girls’ education and always eager to learn. On the devastating day of October 9th, 2012, Yousafzai was shot while returning home from school. To this day, nothing has stopped Yousafzai from continuing to speak out about the importance of girls’ education, despite the inequality that she and many other women and girls still must endure. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao written by Junot Diaz is an exemplary text that supports reader 's understanding of gender roles that are faced daily in Middle Eastern countries. Diaz’s portrayal of gender inequality and gender roles helps inform one’s understanding of the Taliban’s attack on Malala Yousafzai because Maritza, Ana, and Yousafzai are disempowered due to their gender.

This shows how the society and its practices correlate with religion. Women throughout the world are fighting for rights and fighting to be seen as equals to men. This is also being seen throughout many religions. Women are fighting relentlessly to have the spiritual rights they deserve within their faiths. One example of this is seen in the story of Malala Yousafzai, who was willing to risk everything to fight for her rights. Malala is a young Muslim women, who’s community was overtaken by the Taliban. Due to this, many of the women’s rights throughout the community were taken away in the name of religion. Women were forced to be hidden away in their homes and to be subservient to men. Even education was ripped from their hands because it wasn’t seen as necessary for women to become education in the Taliban’s eyes. Malala would not accept this and went against the rules in order to receive the education she deserved (“Malala Yousafzai”). She was willing to risk everything, including her life to ensure that she and other women would be educated. Unfortunately, Malala was shot by the Taliban for her efforts to attend school and learn. She survived, and she is now a role model and advocate for education and women’s rights. One inspiring quote by her is, “They do not want women to get education, because then

Proper education should be provided to every child, regardless of gender. A very known advocate for women’s education is Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist that just wanted to gain an exceeding education and ended up with a life threatening wound caused by the Taliban, who wanted to prevent women from attending school. This unfortunate experience that occured to Yousafzai lead to her becoming an advocate for women’s education and becoming the youngest Nobel Prize winner for her outstanding bravery in standing up for what she believes in, despite the

Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for women’s rights, particularity the right to be educated. She was born in Mingora Pakistan on July 12th 1997 to a Sunni Muslim family. Her father runs a series of public schools in the area and also believes in the right to be educated. Due to her father’s advocacy Malala began writing for an anonymous blog for the BBC. This blog expressed her views on education and women’s rights and talked about life under the threat of the Taliban.

"I will continue this journey of fighting for peace and democracy in my country," said ten year old Malala Yousafzai, as she was determined to stand up for the rights to be educated as a women (I Am Malala 55). Her desire for knowledge progresses intensity as she grows older, however an obstacle arrises when the ban of girls education is constructed by the Taliban's. She takes the liberty of speaking out her passions and beliefs of her rights to education, until she is targeted for defying rules. Malala is changing the world with her voice by fighting for the fundamental rights of education that have been denied from more than 130 million girls who are not able to attend school due to work, early marriage, poverty, etc. and ending violence

She was only sixteen when she gave her famous speech in front of many UN members for kids education.Malala Yousafzai is a young activist fighting for female and kids education.

In Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the United Nations in 2013, she outlines to the members of the United Nation her struggle to bring equal education opportunities to every child in the world. Long before her speech, Yousafzai was rallying for women to receive equal education in her native country of Pakistan, but her modern age view did not to sit well with the ruling terrorist faction in her country the Taliban. In an attempt to silence her, the Taliban made an attempt on Yousafzai’s life while she was a school bus filled with here fellow classmates. Thankfully Yousafzai survived the attempt on her life, and rather than cowering in fear Yousafzai’s held on to her beliefs and kept rallying for the cause she believes in. After campaigning for

“We realise the importance of our voices only when we are silenced” - Malala Yousafzai. Malala’s voice was heard and she stood up for education. She struggled but succeeded in making a change. In order to take her successful stand many important events happened through Malala’s many. Many of which now result in her being a female activist and a world wide figure for education. A few of these main events in her life was her birth, her going to school and her begin shot by the Taliban. This essay examines these events in depth and will explain why these events are given importance for the change Malala has made. Each of these events teach the audience valuable and important lessons such as the importance of equality in genders, making

Some people in Pakistan, including the Taliban, might still believe that gender roles still apply but they don’t any more. “Gender role- expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females” (Schaefer). Times have changed and girls deserve the same amount of education as boys. Malala Yousafzai didn’t take the easy way out, she fought for what she believed in and now her voice is being heard around the world to

After speaking up against the oppressive Taliban rule that made it difficult for her to safely attend school, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head. Her case is just one example of life for girls in countries like Pakistan. “Under Boko Haram 's version of Sharia law, women should be at home raising children and looking after their husbands, not at school learning to read and write” (“The Threat of Girls’ Education”). In another country, Ghana, the ”2002 Population and Housing Census in Ghana indicates that 54.3 percent of female aged 15 years and over, have never been to school” (Sossou). Although education is not legally restricted for girls in countries such as Pakistan or Ghana, going to school can mean putting their life in danger.