Importance Of Gender Equality In A Long Walk To Water

In the book A Long Walk To Water, it seems like men are valued more than women. Apparently, Sudan was one of the countries that did not sign the CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), an international bill of rights for women that sets basic standards that must be followed to promote gender equality. Sudan’s stance indicates the lack of importance of gender equality. The difference in education between boys and girls is one of the most obvious and critical inequalities in Sudan. Girls in general just learn how to read and write and some simple arithmetic and then exit school. In Chapter 1 of A Long Walk To Water, the text states “His two sisters, Skit and Agnath, did not go to school. Like the