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In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose) Party became the first national political party to have a plank supporting women suffrage. The tide was beginning to turn.
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The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.
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Women and girls in the developing world are often denied opportunities for education. Lack of education limits prospects, decreases family income, reduces health, puts women and girls at risk of trafficking and exploitation, and limits the economic advancement of entire countries.
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Men:
1973 = $34,762
2009 = $32,184
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Difference: -$2,578 (8% decrese)
Women:
1973 = $11,983
2009 = $20,957
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Difference: +$8,974 (74% increase)
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1973 = $34,762
2009 = $32,184
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Difference: -$2,578 (8% decrese)
Women:
1973 = $11,983
2009 = $20,957
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Difference: +$8,974 (74% increase)
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By improving educational opportunities for girls and women, World Education helps women develop skills that allow them to make decisions and influence community change. In turn, these programs have a positive impact on some of the most profound issues of our time: Population growth, HIV, peace and security, and the widening gap between the rich and poor.
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Malala Yousafzai is a hero. In every way and every sense of the word, she is a hero. www.theguardian.com
A year after being shot, Malala is clear about her goal. "I speak for education of every child, in every corner of the world," Malala says. "There has been a discrimination in our society," which she believes must be defeated. "We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past."www.npr.org
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A year after being shot, Malala is clear about her goal. "I speak for education of every child, in every corner of the world," Malala says. "There has been a discrimination in our society," which she believes must be defeated. "We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past."www.npr.org
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Projecting into The Future
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In Japan, 70 percent of working women stop working after the birth of their first child. If the country’s female employment rate matched that of males (80 percent), the workforce would gain 8.2 million employees and Japan’s GDP could be boosted by up to 15 percent. Japan is lagging in growth because it is running a marathon with one leg. It must start tapping its most underutilized resource: women.
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We estimate that for the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and Next-11 countries (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Turkey, Vietnam), greater investments in female education could yield a “growth premium” that raises GDP growth by about 0.2 percent per year. Moreover, narrowing the employment gender gap could raise income per capita 20 percent higher than our baseline projections by 2030.
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One of the world's most powerful women, Rousseff is more than halfway through her term as president of Brazil, the world's seventh-largest national economy with a GDP of nearly $2.4 trillion. - www.forbes.com
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One of the world's most powerful women, Rousseff is more than halfway through her term as president of Brazil, the world's seventh-largest national economy with a GDP of nearly $2.4 trillion. - www.forbes.com
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Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) has been a longtime champion of the legislation called the Education For All Act, which would keep the U.S.’s promise to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals of universal basic education and gender equality through secondary school by the year 2015. Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), the other lead sponsor of the bill says “Humanity is capable of great things if we can achieve this goal…Amid violence, strife, and poverty, education is an equalizing force." http://dayofthegirl.org
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