Half the Sky: Turning
Oppression into
Opportunity for Women
Worldwide
Barbara Clausen (Past ΑΣ State President, ΑΣ State
Parliamentarian)
Jane Gerdon (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State
Scholarship Chair)
Wendy Selde (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State
Nominations Chair), and
Glenda Reynolds (Past NW Regional Director)
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
Slavery
Women who are in prostitution have
very little ability to make their
daughters aspire to do something
different. It’s not that
transgenerational prostitution
happens because they want to make
it happen. It’s because they have no
option, they have no escape.
-‐Urmi Basu
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
Slavery
A lot of the brutality against girls and
women is rooted in deep cultural
stereotypes about the worth of women.
And it’s not that different from the way
African American slaves were viewed in
18th-‐ or 19th-‐century America or
Europe. These [people] were not fully
human, these were some other kind of
being that under the Bible or under a
convenient social rationale were put on
Earth to serve somebody else
-‐Hillary Clinton
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Slavery
O Modern Day Slavery
O Worldwide Prostitution
O Modern Triangular Trade
O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
O Mapping Slavery
Slavery – Mapping Slavery
Slavery – Mapping Slavery
Maternal Mortality: Greatest
Health Inequity of 21st Century
Lifetime risk of maternal death in childbirth is
1,000 times higher in a poor country than in
the West.
• Niger: 1 in 7 chance of dying in childbirth.
• Sub-Saharan Africa: 1 in 32
• India: 1 in 70
• Sri Lanka: 1 in 850
• United States: 1 in 4,800
• Italy: 1 in 26,000
• Ireland: 1 in 47,600
Mortality Causes
COMPLICATIONS:
Medical Care: unavailable, too far away, inadequate,
or unaffordable
80% Deaths are due to:
Hemorrhaging
Sepsis
Pre-eclampsia
Obstructive labor
Unsafe abortion
Indirect causes
Mortality Causes
Obstructive Labor – 3 major causes
1.
2.
3.
Anthopoid pelvis – elongated, fast runners
Female Genital Mutilation – genital cutting
Fistulas – a passage or hole between two organs
in the body
A. The story of “M”
B. Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
Mortality Causes
Maternal health generally gets
minimal attention because those who
die or suffer injuries, overwhelmingly
start with three strikes against them.
They are female, poor, and rural.
-Half the Sky, p. 97
Mortality Causes
Edna Adan
Top ranking official WHO (World Health Organization)
O Hospital Site ( former military parade
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ground/dump)
Ian Fisher/Financing
Maternity Hospital
Making a Difference
Total attention to the patient’s needs
Education
O Investing Education:
O Procter & Gamble-building toilets (FemCare) gold-
plated projects—flashy but less effective;
O Iodized salt 31% households developing world-brain
damage less -- unglamorous project;
O Bribery or local projects make a difference: Mexico
grants for girls’ families;
O International projects must be a partnership;
Microcredit Financing
Axis of Equality
Financing: Kahsf (Pakistan) Heifer goats (Africa)
Women to Women International: effective because
it touches people at the grassroots level & involves
them
Countries: women get educated and can work, the
economy turns around, children’s IQs increase!
Just send money: effective in countries with good
governance with women involved and equal
opportunities
Other countries: join partnerships with local
connections
Four Steps You Can Take in
Ten Minutes
O Go to www.globalgiving.org and open a P2P account (Link
directly to a person in need overseas, browse) or
www.kiva.org (browse for micro lending) or
www.givology.com (causes in China, India, Africa to
support local projects — end prostitution, etc.)
O Sponsor a girl THR Plan International, Women for Women
Int’l, World Vision, or American Jewish World Service.
O Sign up for email updates www.womensenews.org or
www.worldpulse.com (actions to prevent abuse)
O Join CARE Action Network www.can.care.org (speak out
with policymakers)
How Can YOU Make A
Difference?
In pairs or trios, as an
individual or chapter,
what can YOU do?
Closure
O Complete the evaluation
O Buy a book and read it all!
O Watch the video
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O Go www.deltakappagamma.org/WA/ for this Power Point
and opening quotes.
O Go to www.halftheskymovement.org for more information
O Go to www.sharedhope.org for information on what a local
group is doing.
O Go to www.compassion2one.org for information on ways to
help domestically.