Women’s rights and place in the third world countries.

1. Women’srights and place inthe third world countries.

2. Third world countries

3. Women are rarely treated as self-individual in most of the third world countries . Their freedom isn’t cared in almost all the civilizations and religions. Without women there would be no civilization, no religion, no societies or no men. In many generations woman is treated as property

4. Families in the third world countries push their daughters into marriage at a young age to save money or get dowry. These girls are pulled from school at an early age, they lose educational opportunities.

5. ILLITERACY (not able to read or write) • When women don’t go to school they become illiterate and they hardly find jobs. • Around 100 million children have no primary education, and at least 60% of them are girls. • Women make up more than 2/3 of the world’s illiterate adult population which is about 960 million.

7. HEALTH & DISCRIMINATION • First stage of violence begins with women, when parents don’t want their unborn daughter because they prefer a son. • Parents think a daughter as a guest for them and she belongs to an unknown man. • In some countries,like China and India, parents have some tests to learn if their baby will be a boy or a girl.And if the baby is a girl, they want to get rid of it, so pregnant mother have an operation in a clinic in Bombay. Unfortunately 7999 of 8000 babies which parents got rid of were girls.

8. Gender Inequality

9. Violence • Because of 'honour' killings thousands of young women are killed every year, mainly in Western Asia, North Africa and parts of South Asia. • One woman in five is a victim of violence in the world. • Between 40 and 60% of all sexual crimes are on girls under the age of 16. • In the third world countries, families sell their daughters or women are kidnapped to be sent to other countries illegally.

10. More than 60% of women were married before they reached the age of 18 in countries in Africa and in Bangladesh. Percentage of women aged 20-24 who were married before the age of 18.

11. SOME INTERESTING FACTS • Women own only 1% of the world’s land. • A Saudi Arabian woman can get divorced if she doesn’t give her husband coffee. • The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth. • Every year over half a million women die in childbirth in Africa and Asia. • Nearly half of all Indonesian women have had their first child by the time they are 17. • Women perform 66% of the world’s work, but receive only 11% of the world’s income.

12. The two highest IQ’s ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!