The Girl Effect Analysis

Progress or Retrogression Humans’ needs have been changed all the time with the changing of society. Moreover, the progress of satisfying human’s demands requires the changing of the business, government, and society. Under this circumstance, we need a bridge to link all things together in order to set up the “good life” and capitalism is one of the concepts. One significant example of capitalism is putting women into manufacture. The essay “The Girl Effect” written by Nicholas D.Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn narrate how “the girl effect” benefits to both economics and society. On a social level, the emancipate of women contributes vastly to the progress of society. However, the problem is always developing when capitalism impacts our lives
Some researches indicate that “Women’s empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation” (D.Kristof and WuDunn, p211). As introduced, women’s empowerment is an example of capitalism. When the society emancipates women from being house-wives, it benefits both families and society. For the family side, when two people supply the family instead of one, their lives will become richer which means they have more money for their children’s education and health. Similarly, for the society side, when women take part into manufacture, it increases the productivity and at the same time stimulates the social economics. When the whole society is developing and becoming richer, the younger generations will have more opportunities to acquire the better resources about education and health. However, there is no such thing as perfection. People have a limited amount of energy; the more efficiency people put into work, the less they can share with their families. The capitalism requires people to become more efficiency and Hochschild points out that, “This efficiency-seeking is transferred from man to woman, from workplace to home, and from adult to child” (p184). It is true that
Thousands of years before, males are the dominant of their families, and their wives are just their appendants. These changes shift women’s emphasis from families to the whole communities. As well-known, women are much emotional than men, which means, they can bring more “love” to society. The word “love” means morality and peace. Just as the example given in D.Kistof and WuDunn’s essay that, “women are the key to ending hunger in Africa” (p.211). women’s power is more than benefiting economic, it at the same time disseminates their thoughts to public, something that men cannot think of. Whereupon, the inadequacies of society have been fixed by that. That is the key to the morality and to perfect our world which is a progress due to capitalism. However, everything has two sides, and the problems are always inevitable. The meaning of “love” changes simultaneous with the diffuses of morality. This shift to a family side is the changing ideas about being “good parents”. While shifting to society is the changing of the importance of everyone’s lives. As Hochschild discusses, “Family and community life have meanwhile become less central as places to talk and relate, and less the object of collective rituals” (p.186). When discussing family, it always comes with a whole that everyone is bounded with each other. The bound is called “love” and it used to be the