Group Project PP Kristina

Condition of Women in Developing
Countries

UF 300
Group
Presentation

By Oscar Gomez, Richard
Black, Melanie Carter, &
Kristina Reitsma

Is there a need for a change?
• Lack of vision or awareness
• Lack of policy or funding
• Lack of financial resources
• Lack of education

Oscar Gomez

Is there a need for a change?

“We must also recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights and opportunities as our sons: the chance to attain a world-class education; to have fulfilling careers in any industry; to be treated fairly and paid equally for their work; and to have no limits on their dreams. That is what I want for women everywhere.”

Is the need the fault of the present system?

What does the education system teach?
What does the media report?
What are the issues that scholars are studying?

Richard Black

Current Idaho Standards for Social Studies
6-9.GEH.3.2.3 Analyze current economic issues in the countries of the Eastern Hemisphere using a variety of information resources.
6-9.GEH.3.2.4 Identify economic connections between a local community and the countries of the Eastern
Hemisphere.
Global Perspectives - vocabulary culture, cultural institutions, cultural groups, social institutions, ethnicity, ethnocentrism, nation-state, global markets, urbanization, developing world, extinction Richard Black

Is the need the fault of the present system?
Google News Search Results
Genital Cutting
9,650

Maternal Mortality
29,600

Honor Killings
48,200

Modern Slavery
74,700

Rape in Third World Countries
122,000

Sex Trafficking

4,420,000

Education in Third World Countries

6,800,000
0

Richard Black

1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000

Is the need the fault of the present system? Richard Black

Is the need the fault of the present system?

Richard Black

Is the need the fault of the present system?

Richard Black

Is the need the fault of the present system?

“…more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the battles of the twentieth century.”

Richard Black

Can your plan solve the problem? Plan

1.)Incorporate a High
School class into education systems in the US for all Senior students Class Name: Condition of Women in Developing
Countries
Melanie Carter

Can your plan solve the problem? 2. Make it mandatory via Senior Projects or Health Class

Melanie Carter

Can your plan solve the problem? Result
Informs and exposes students so that they are more aware of the problems with women in developing countries and how they can help.

Melanie Carter

Half the Sky

States...

One of the great failings of the American education system, in our view, is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Study-abroad programs tend to consist of herds of students visiting Oxford or Florence or Paris. We believe that universities should make it a requirement that all graduates spend at least some time in the developing world, either by taking a “gap year” or by studying abroad. If more Americans worked for a summer teaching English at a school like
Mukhtar’s in Pakistan, or working at a hospital like HEAL Africa in Congo, our entire society would have a richer understanding of the world around us. And the rest of the world might also hold a more positive view of Americans. (88)

Kristina Reitsma

Incorporating it into the education system
Students from Croatia state..

Kristina Reitsma

The Plan

● Change misconceptions of the issue
● Promote tolerance to differences
● Educate on equality of gender and human rights

Kristina Reitsma

● Is the plan practical,
○ Yes, information on this subject is something everyone needs to learn about
● workable,
○ Every school has a senior project class or an advanced health class they could add this to
● feasible
○ Only a small portion would be added existing curriculum ● and minimally disadvantageous
○ Everyone will get the same type of curriculum to follow informing everyone generally as a whole

Kristina Reitsma

Works Cited
- Google News. Google, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2015.
- Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl W. Dunn. Half the Sky:
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
Print.
- Web of Science. Thompson Reuters, n.d. Web. 2 Apr.
2015.
-Jordan, S. (2010, November 30). The Straight Facts: The
Plight of Women | USAID Impact. Retrieved April 13, 2015, from http://blog.usaid.gov/2010/11/the-straight-facts-theplight-of-women/

Cited: - Google News. Google, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2015. - Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl W. Dunn. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. New York: Vintage Books, 2010. Print. - Web of Science. Thompson Reuters, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2015. -Jordan, S. (2010, November 30). The Straight Facts: The Plight of Women | USAID Impact. Retrieved April 13, 2015, from http://blog.usaid.gov/2010/11/the-straight-facts-theplight-of-women/