Reflection Of Half The Sky

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school. All her clever children are good in school. Rebecca is the founder of Umoja. Umoja means united and is a village for artisan women who create beaded traditional headbands, necklaces and bracelets. They sell it to the tourists and in return make living out of it. Umoja foundation’s aim is to empower women through small businesses. The women built a school and are happy in the village because they can live their life freely. The women provide security to each other and have heartbreakingly accepted the condition that men have the right to beat them. Most of these women have been circumcised; have been raped, abused and beaten. They are living in constant danger and fear especially of men. Kabeh, another business owner, started her oil …show more content…

Education is for boys as well because they are the husbands who will lead the communities. This time, the women want to choose their husbands, go to school, don’t want to be cut anymore, make their decisions for themselves, to be involved in politics and to be equal.

After watching the 4 hour video, Half The Sky, I became more aware of how there are more people suffering and feeling much worse than I am. As a woman, I have felt the pain they were experiencing especially the young ones. I have never imagined such cruelty and inhumanity in this world. There are several issues that people in general are facing. Focusing on women, I have realized they are the most oppressed. It is ironic how conservative countries tend to have the most prostitution probably because the …show more content…

They are more than just household workers, caretakers of children and materials of pleasure. Women are underestimated because they show off a gentle and very caring side making others think that they can be easily fooled and that they cannot progress. The greatest challenge of women empowerment is changing the stereotypes that have existed in many cultures. For example, female genital cutting shows the discrimination of women. This practice is offensive to human rights and should be eradicated. Although it is difficult to break out of tradition, it has to be broken because it shows a wrong use of religion and tradition. The society has tolerated it for so long; it takes a special person to say that it’s wrong, someone who has great power over the people such as the leaders or other people who see the bigger picture. The female who was an expert in doing female circumcision mentioned that cutting itself is a source of income for her and she would abandon the practice if given another kind of source of income. This shows a capitalist structure in their

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