A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.
Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
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