Prepare a write up based on the African adage"if you educate a boy ,you educate a man.If you educate a girl,you educate a village".
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: ‘If you educate a boy, you train a man. If you educate a girl, you train a village.’ This is not only true, it is measurable. For example, women are more likely to spend their resources on health and education, investing up to 90 per cent of their earnings in this way, compared with just 30-40 per cent for men. This spending creates a powerful ripple effect throughout society and across generations.
If learning is just the first step, work is the second: labour enables women to flourish and achieve their true potential.
However, at present, when women participate in the workforce, they too often tend to get stuck in low-paying, low-status and low-security jobs—many in the informal sector of developing countries’ economies. Is it surprising then that women and girls are the main victims of extreme poverty, representing 70 per cent of the billion people struggling to survive on less than a dollar a day?
Globally, women earn only three-quarters as much as men—even with the same level of education and in the same occupation. Surely one of our most basic norms should be ‘equal pay for equal work.’