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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into
Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Barbara Clausen (Past ΑΣ State President, ΑΣ State Parliamentarian)Jane Gerdon (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State Scholarship Chair)Wendy Selde (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State Nominations Chair), and Glenda Reynolds (Past NW Regional Director)
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
SlaveryWomen who are in prostitution have very little ability to make
their daughters aspire to do something different. It’s not
that transgenerational prostitution happens because they want to make it happen.
It’s because they have no option, they have no escape.
- ‐Urmi Basu
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
Slavery A lot of the brutality against girls and
women is rooted in deep cultural stereotypes about the worth of
women. And it’s not that different from the way African American slaves
were viewed in 18th- ‐ or 19th- ‐century America or Europe. These
[people] were not fully human, these were some other kind of being that
under the Bible or under a convenient social rationale were put
on Earth to serve somebody else- ‐Hillary Clinton
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
O Mapping Slavery
Slavery – Mapping Slavery
Slavery – Mapping Slavery
Maternal Mortality: Greatest Health Inequity
of 21st CenturyLifetime risk of maternal death in
childbirth is 1,000 times higher in a poor country than in the West.
• Niger: 1 in 7 chance of dying in childbirth.• Sub-Saharan Africa: 1 in 32• India: 1 in 70• Sri Lanka: 1 in 850• United States: 1 in 4,800• Italy: 1 in 26,000• Ireland: 1 in 47,600
Mortality Causes
COMPLICATIONS:Medical Care: unavailable, too far away, inadequate, or unaffordable
80% Deaths are due to:Hemorrhaging Obstructive labor Sepsis Unsafe abortion Pre-eclampsia Indirect causes
Mortality Causes
Obstructive Labor – 3 major causes1. Anthopoid pelvis – elongated, fast runners2. Female Genital Mutilation – genital cutting3. Fistulas – a passage or hole between two organs in the body
A. The story of “M”B. Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
Mortality Causes
Maternal health generally gets minimal attention because those who die or suffer injuries, overwhelmingly start with three strikes against them. They are female, poor, and rural.
-Half the Sky, p. 97
Mortality Causes
Edna Adan
Top ranking official WHO (World Health Organization)
O Hospital Site ( former military parade ground/dump)
O Ian Fisher/FinancingO Maternity HospitalO Making a DifferenceO Total attention to the patient’s needs
EducationO Investing Education:O Procter & Gamble-building toilets (FemCare)
gold-plated projects—flashy but less effective;O Iodized salt 31% households developing world-
brain damage less -- unglamorous project;O Bribery or local projects make a difference:
Mexico grants for girls’ families;O International projects must be a partnership;
Microcredit FinancingAxis of Equality
Financing: Kahsf (Pakistan) Heifer goats (Africa)Women to Women International: effective because it touches people at the grassroots level & involves themCountries: women get educated and can work, the economy turns around, children’s IQs increase!Just send money: effective in countries with good governance with women involved and equal opportunitiesOther countries: join partnerships with local connections
Four Steps You Can Take in Ten Minutes
O Go to www.globalgiving.org and open a P2P account (Link directly to a person in need overseas, browse) or www.kiva.org (browse for micro lending) or www.givology.com (causes in China, India, Africa to support local projects — end prostitution, etc.)
O Sponsor a girl THR Plan International, Women for Women Int’l, World Vision, or American Jewish World Service.
O Sign up for email updates www.womensenews.org or www.worldpulse.com (actions to prevent abuse)
O Join CARE Action Network www.can.care.org (speak out with policymakers)
How Can YOU Make A Difference?
In pairs or trios, as an individual or
chapter, what can YOU do?
ClosureO Complete the evaluationO Buy a book and read it all!O Watch the video
~O Go www.deltakappagamma.org/WA/ for this
Power Point and opening quotes.O Go to www.halftheskymovement.org for more
informationO Go to www.sharedhope.org for information on
what a local group is doing.O Go to www.compassion2one.org for information
on ways to help domestically.