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The Gulabi Gangs

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Education In most countries, women have less access to education than their male counterparts. According to UNESCO (2013), of the 110 million children out of school in developing nations, 60 percent are girls; women also represent nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate population. Some countries are even worse than others. Examples include the fact that nine out of ten Afghan women are illiterate, and the shocking truth that only one in twenty attend school beyond the sixth grade. Chad is another prime example of the disparity between men’s and women’s educational standards- only ten percent of Chadian girls have completed elementary school. Women with higher education tend to be healthier, earn more, have fewer children, and provide …show more content…

One of these groups is the Gulabi Gang, an organization in rural India. The Gulabi Gang began when Sampat Pal Devi, saw a man who was beating his wife. When she begged him to stop, he began to beat her as well. The day afterwards, she and five other women thrashed the man with bamboo sticks. News of this spread, and other women came to Sampat Pal Devi in order to request her protection and to enlist in order to protect others from domestic abuse. The Gulabi Gang now strives to prevent child marriages, train women in self-defense, and register FIRs against sex-offenders and abusive husbands (History of the Gulabi Gang, …show more content…

This quote certainly proved true for Malala herself. Malala is a young Pakistani activist who campaigns for the education of women and young girls. As a young girl, Malala rebelled against the Taliban after it began attacking girls’ schools in her area. In September 2008, she delivered a speech entitled "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" and the following year, she began blogging under a pseudonym about living with the Taliban’s threat to her education. When she was fifteen years old, a gunman shot Malala in the head while she was on the bus home from school. Miraculously, Malala survived the attack, and after being flown to Birmingham, England for critical care, she continued to campaign for women’s education. In 2014, at only seventeen years old, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person in history to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Since then, she has opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, continued to raise money for girls’ education via the Malala Fund, and has inspired girls in her home country and throughout the world to pursue

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