The History of the African Women

70% of Afri arsehole wo custody with disabilities beget them from their keep ups. In Africa, most(prenominal) wo custody develop little or no beneficials. This effects what they discount do for work, how their family life is, and what future they pay back. Wo workforce throughout time, especi aloney in Afri squirt culture, ca-ca always been subservient to men. The status of women in Africa is second-rate. In countries manage the United States, women stupefy the similar rights as men and be intimately equal. except in Africa its tot wholey different. Women shake to receipt that they should be equal to men.Its important to beneathstand that every race is discriminated at whizz point in time. This should not happen if we pretend a realization. This disposition would be realizing that every champion puke on this planet was created equal. Women, unfortunately, have been very discriminated a seducest, regular(a) in this century. Women ar so cruelly thought of that now, women see zippo wrong with moral and physical cruelty towards them. Since the status of women in Africa, is so low, it has caused mevery men to everyplacepower women physic all(prenominal) in ally.More and to a greater extent women be world beaten and cerebrateing that it is okay because the women think men ar superlative to them. A frightening fact is that 16 2/3 sh be of women ar battered by their partners and 46% of these cases the children are beaten too. If you go to the police and complain that your husband is abusing you or hitting you the authorities would think, Oh soundly she probably meritd it Said lindy Mieza. A woman named Geli wrote nigh her life in which she says, My mother she constantly suffered terrible physical and mental abuse from him Fifty percent of women in Africa women volition be assail in their life time. at that place were 23,806 encroachments in the first six months of 1996. And what worsened is that police estimate that for every corrupt reported another(prenominal) 35 takes place. South Africa, Already confronting the worlds worst murder rate the country has a harrowing new fact to face there is a rape every 25 seconds.. Geli wrote, Being raped doesnt mean its by whatever you bustt know, I was raped by my husband and his friends In conclusion, when men all over power women, women feel slight and less important and the status of women poses worse.Poverty is a problem because most children who grow up in need, die there. They dont needed get shot or killed, they end up not be able to climb out scantness and get a fair job, especially women. Women in Africa are forced to be prostitutes because they need to assist their family. When women do this they end up having a bigger family. Women live in meagreness in a disproportionate number. My mother lived and died in poverty and so did her mom, one day I will too because I have no food or money. Why have women bend so much poorer? There is no one reason.In countries corresponding Kenya and India, cut backs resulting from the International Monetary Funds and Structural enrollment policies (SAPs) have affected women most because they are the main recipients of education and health. There are more women than men in poverty. Out of the 4. 3 jillion displaced 80% of them are women. In a study carried out over 20 categorys the number of rural women in poverty has increase by 50% reaching an awe both(prenominal) 565 million. Poverty has influenced womens lives more than any factor over the uttermost decade. If women are in poverty they will not be able to benefactor fight to gain their rights.For many many years, generations of female childs would and will introduce up their education for their fellow because he getting an education is more important than her getting one. Lindy Mieza once verbalise, If you look at our country, it is the women who are the first to dropped at discipline to give places to their brother s. Girls in Africa get a second class education. many an(prenominal) girls have dropped out of instruct because they were raped and need to take vex of their babies that have no fathers. I once went to school, but hence I was raped and had a baby. A fourteen year old girl told a reporter.Women should be able to go to school just standardized men but, Only the wealthiest girls are able to prevail an education. , There are 52 million boys who do not go to original school. alone their are 77 million girls who dont go to school where one learns the two most important things, reading and writing. Because women are that last ones in schools and the first ones out, obviously they are the ones who cant read. If one took out nine hundred illiterate plenty, women would out number men two to one. In Africa, 68. 3% of the women can not read. If women arent meliorate then they wont get jobs and will have no way for a plug future.Women are taught in their tribes and cultures that it is all right for men to mistreat them. This is not service of process women figure that they dont have to be treated the way they are. Tribal women are brought up thinking its okay for them to be mens slaves. in one case an African woman utter I came to the conclusion that part of our problems with men is that we were brought up to see out lives incomp permite without them. We were taught to consider man as our superiors, the absolute rulers not only of our stem but of our lives too. Geli said usage and tradition told us it was normal for men to lie and abuse to cavil and domineer Gelis mom was abused by her husband as well as her Grandmother was abused and so was she. Geli grew up think it wasnt wrong for men to hit women. She Grew up thinking it was all right for her husband to hit her. It wasnt till the Statesn groups came and told her what her husband did was ilsound, after that, she left him Women were told we were duty-bound, to remain steadfast and faithful to our hus band no matter what they did do to us or how undeserving of our affections they were If women keep development up thinking that it is right for men to overpower then women will neer be equal to men.Since men make up all of the practice of laws and rules most laws proteins only to men. Laws are only fair to man. Black women of Africa have suffered the most because of discriminating laws. Up in till this century women couldnt own property, vote. Get jobs, and sometimes even leave the house. The women acknowledge that under apartheid, womens issues were pushed to the back burner while black men and women fought together for liberation. But now women are devoting attention to old and pervasive obstacles.The whole scheme has placed women in a inferior position. Women were not involved in any environmental decisions or economical decisions. Woman had different mystify behind bars sentences then men. If a woman killed any one she would be put to a torturous death. If a man he would g et a life time sentence with a chance of parole. In Kangaroo courts, punishment for women can be rape by a government official(s). Nelson Mendela the found Minister of South Africa once said, I pay tribute to the mothers and wives of our nation.You are the rockhard foundation of our struggle. Apartheid has inflicted more pain on you than anyone else. Women cant be equal to men if laws dont allow them to. If you dont get a chance to take part in you laws you dont take part in the rules the govern you life said Mrs. Shays. In African women are very prone to getting infirmitys. Women not only have to deal with having no rights but they likewise have to deal with disease. At the hospitals we see women who are brought in wheel barrows who have had ten pregnancies and have ruptured uteruses. They die in those wheel barrows. In America you have 911. You call on a telephone and an ambulance comes.Here we cant call on a phone because their are no(prenominal) and you cant call for an ambu lance because their are none. Also malnutrition, starvation, AIDS, and even dissipation are deadly in Africa. 29. 3 percent of with child(predicate) women have AIDS. Nelson Mendela once said We must give health to the aged to the pregnant women and to the young children. Doctors are rare and expensive in Africa. Many concourse who need them cant afford them. Women are the main people who take care of the family, and because if they are busy fighting off disease they cant fight for their rights.Being sick put a damper on a womens attitudes. The attitudes of womens rights are very poor, women and men have bad attitudes about it. Forty women with the idea of them having the right to vote went to court to see what they could do. When the women brought up the idea the judge just sit and laughed. He told them to leave. Men think zero about us, we are slaves to them, and nothing more. When we asked for rights they wanted nothing to do with us. Sadly many women felt the same way. A w omens rights leader said. Men dont want to let us share their power Lindy Meiza tried to lift women attitudes in her speech, We must think we can. Think you can and you can. Now lets win the rights we deserve If women think they can they can. They will rise up against men. Just ilk in the story The Little Engine Who Could he thought he could and then he did it. South Africa has do a new personality with a charter for women. The new constitution will eliminate all laws that discriminate whites and black, and males and females.The new constitution with the first charter for women will give women the rights the deserved. Some of the laws are Women shall have equal legal status and subject matter in civil law including amongst others, full contractual rights, the right to raise and hold in property, the right to equal in heritance and the right to secure credit States the charter. Every woman shall have the right to education and grooming at any stage of her life in order to real ize her full potential. Women shall have special approach path to funds for education and training. tike care facilities shall be provided.Education to develop awareness of womens status, to make believe womens self confidence and able them to claim their constitutional and legal rights should be implemented. Ensure womens full and equal participation in power structures and decision-making. Develop education and training to increase womens message to participate in decision-making and leadership. The state shall establish appropriate institution to go through the effective protection and promotion of equality for women. Women requirement equality in the development, application, adjudication interpretation and enforcement of the law.Women shall have equality within the family and within marriages and intimate relationships. Women shall have equal rights during and it the dissolution of a marriage. Women married under customary law shall have the right to inherit from their spo uses. All family types shall be recognized and treated equally. Women shall have the right to choose the partner of their choice. Women should have equal access to financial resources of the household. Women should have equal decision making powers and access to data in regard to the economic management of the household.Social services should be a right not a privilege. Women must be protected from sexual harassment and violence in all places where women are working. vehemence in all its forms is endemic to South African baseball club both sexual and domestic violence are pervasive and all women live under the threat of experience violence women experience supplementary victimization at all stages of criminal justice system which shall involve the right to be free from all forms of violence in the home in communities in the work pace and in public spaces.These are some of the important laws for women that will make drastic changes in Africa. regime have made some changes to p rotect women. Last year, marital rape became a crime and women can now more easily obtain restraining orders against their abusers. As a result, an older man who was convicted of raping a nine year old girl received a ten year sentence. Women are getting rights and the MALE government is realizing that they must make both genders equal. We demand the rights we deserve. The women of Africa demanded it and they got it.Women groups, like the ANC, have been helping women win their rights. The ANC now regards the champing of womens rights an intrinsic part of its agenda. Already the ANC has enriched the womens rights in the charter and constitutional guidelines. Theyve made laws with government to become equal. The ANC has strongly advocated that that 33% of all political nominees be women. Once the ANC was un-banned various groups united to form the Womens Coalition to alleviate gender issues in neglected for the new government. .. countless other women-the thankless heroines of black women liberation.If more women join these womens groups, women will have some control over their own lives. Not only are women helping themselves but now other countries are trying to help African women too. Many countries like the United States have helped Africa by donating money, direct representatives to help villages become better place for women and even given countries food. other countries are making giant leaps to show Africa the way. The United States aid is providing 65 million or 80% of its primary education assistance to Africa, so every child will have access education.The United States also provided 4 million for the African women abuse. If other countries help Africa it will become a better place for women. Womens thoughts on the future are strong and hopeful. The fight will go on forever. Women will never be equal to men. One day men will be equal to women. Many leaders even thought even though, universe beaten and jailed still are positive. Just like Th andi. She was an ANC leader. She protested against women have to where passes that stated information like birth, place of birth, town and reacords.At that protest, was arrested and put into jail for eight years. She says, One is still doughtful about the future. Felicia Mabuza, another ANC member, says, South Africa is going to have to get used to seeing women in the board room as well as the bedroom. She also said, In the coming years black South African women will move on to stand and assume their roles in a fast changing family that is filled with hope and optimism. Women in Africa are gaining hope about their future. The more this happens the more confidence they will get and they will soon be able to face men as equals.To help women in Africa my organization, S. O. F. A. W. , call up Out For African Women, will show women how to build homes, coaxes the governments to change some laws and most important give all women an education. S. O. F. A. W. will be compendium money from private and public distributors. This money will used for sending our representatives to places of poverty to show women how to build a house. We will memorise them the basic skill. They women we teach will show their neighbor and then the neighbor would teach their neighbor and so on.If we do this more and more women will get out of poverty, less and less women will live in poverty and finally we are teaching women a skill that that will be able to use. The S. O. F. A. W. is going to set up meetings with counties all over Africa. In our meetings we will try to coax the government to change laws so men and women are equal. Then we would help them enforce the laws. If the laws are equal then the women will soon be equal. Finally and most importantly the S. O. F. A. W will build 200 schools.We will build 100 primary schools because that is where reading and writing are taught, the two most important things in the world. We would build 50 high schools and 50 middle schools. Of c ourse all of these schools will be for girls only. If women are educated the more money would know their laws and how to do something about is. If women are free from violence, if they are healthy and educated, if they can live and work as full and equal partners in any society their families will flourish and when they do, communities and nations will thrive. Bill Clinton.I personal think that Africa will not remain odd man out. I think this because If organizations like mine help problems like status of women, hunger, over population, health, wildlife, rainforest and black liberation problems like these will be non existancet. Women are humans, they shouldnt be treated like animals. Like I said before women need education, and jobs. But women also need better health facilities and better shelters. You can help by donating money to organizations like mine. I care because people are being hurt when they shouldnt be. enrapture if you can call 1-888-WOMEN-AF.