Malala Women Equality

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Everyday, women are facing discrimination and sexism for their everyday rights. Women in third world countries have to fight for their education, not to get raped, and try to live unnoticed, which is another way of saying safe. Women in first world countries have to fight for equal pay, try not to get raped, and dismiss the catcalls and comments from the streets. The point of feminism is to bring equality for women; to improve the way we view and treat them. Without feminism, this world would fall apart. Not only would women fear everything, but so would men and everyone else in between. The United States would turn into a third world country without equal rights activists. This article will show you why feminism is important in both third …show more content…
Malala described her and her classmates’ struggles for their right of an education, according to an article called, “Pakistani Schoolgirl Campaigner”, by Rob Crilly, “In it, she described how her terrified (all female) classmates were forced to hide books under their shawls and lived in fear of having acid thrown in their faces.” The point of feminism is to make women equal; to fight for these girls who are too scared to even crack open a book. Some girls are too scared to even go to school, in fear of being raped or killed. In the article, “The Worst Places in the World to be a Woman”, by CBS News, it lists the top countries in the world that are the most hateful/violent to their women. Atop of their list, was third world country, Congo: “Congo was put atop the list because of the staggering level of sexual violence in the country -- a product of years of war and humanitarian disasters. As many as 400,000 women are raped there annually.” Women are afraid of walking down the streets, because a man who has no idea was consent is, will claim her, and there is nothing she can do to stop it. In fact, mostly all the men cheer on this kind of behavior towards women. Feminists everywhere stand up to fight for the women who can’t fight the sexism by themselves -- as they would do vice