I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.
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.
Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.