This week’s article is about women in Iraq.
How they were promised a better life but never got it, since 1991 when Bush Sr.
started the war in Iraq causing embargoes, sanctions and bombing raids. The war
that was started in 2003 has its ten year anniversary and yet nothing has been
said about the precious rights that woman so very need in Iraq. Wars that are
said to be ending really don’t end and some of the wars that people have been
fighting for centuries are wars on women’s rights. Across the globe we see
woman still being looked down on. Places like Congo, Egypt, Afghanistan and the
US republic. According to the article even Pope Francis believe that women
aren’t as important as men, saying that they shouldn’t use contraception’s, and
that gay people shouldn’t have the right to get married. Sandberg believes that
women are stalled, that they don’t have enough ambition to get to the top and
change the rules. However others believe that woman don’t need any more
positions that already exist. All that gains is stress for said women. What we
need is a different non-hierarchical formulation of power. That is one that is
not rooted in gender violence across the globe. A very real war that is usually
not mentioned or not seen as important is the war that some women feel they
endure every day. Places like Iraq and Afghanistan try to hush don’t how awful
life is for the women. Things involving kidnapping, public beating, death
threats, sexual assaults and killing make women feel like a moving target.
Dalila Aguilar
1:11 am
4/5/13
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