summary chapter 9 and 10

In Pakistan, there was a woman from a Christian minority who wanted to pick her own husband. This was a breach of family honor and her brother’s fought with each other trying to decide whether they should kill her or sell her to a brothel. The woman escaped while the brothers were arguing.

In Riyadh, Nick learned that there are female judges in courts, but woman testifying would always lose to a man, even if that man is uneducated. For a woman to travel abroad, she has to get permission from her husband. The Vice President is a woman and even she needs permission to travel. Also, 65% of Iranian university students are females because they score higher on entrance exams than men do.

A woman named Sakena Yacoobi runs an aid organization called the Afghan Institute of learning. She went to college is Stockton, California at the University of the Pacific although she was accepted by Kubal University; she could not attend because of the violence at that time. Sekena opened girl’s schools in Peshwar and had 1500 students by the second year. When the Taliban fell, she moved her operation back to Kabul and provides education for 350,000 women and children in Afghanistan.

A 13 year-old girl named Dai Maju from China who lived in a small village was forced to drop out of school when she reached the 6^th grade. An American read the story written about this girl and her family and after some confusion, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company donated $10,000 to build a new school and to pay the tuitions. Dai became an accountant and was able to support her family. There were many other girls who benefited from that same donation from the same village that Dai was from.

Angeline Mugwendere was a poor farm girl from Zimbabwe who had nothing. When she took the 6^th grade nationwide graduation exam, she scored on of the highest marks in the country. Ann Cotton started the Campaign for Female Education, or “Camfed”. One of the first girls Ann supported was Angeline. Camfed was expanded to Zambia, Tanzania, and Ghana. It helps over 400,000 children attend school every year.

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