段太尉逸事状翻译英文性别歧视事例

2021年1月19日发(作者：dust)

Girls: Household Servants

When a boy is born in most developing countries, friends and relatives exclaim
congratulations. A son means insurance. He will inherit his father's property
and get a job to help support the family. When a girl is born, the reaction is
very different. Some women weep when they find out their baby is a girl
because, to them, a daughter is just another expense. Her place is in the home,
not in the world of men. In some parts of India, it's traditional to greet a family
with a newborn girl by saying,

A girl can't help but feel inferior when everything around her tells her that she
is worth less than a boy. Her identity is forged as soon as her family and society
limit her opportunities and declare her to be second-rate.
A combination of extreme poverty and deep biases against women creates a
remorseless cycle of discrimination that keeps girls in developing countries
from living up to their full potential. It also leaves them vulnerable to severe
physical and emotional abuse. These
accept that life will never be any different.
Neglect


The
developing
world
is
full
of
poverty-stricken
families
who
see
their
daughters
as
an
economic
predicament
困境
. That
attitude
has
resulted
in
the
widespread neglect of baby girls
in Africa,
Asia, and South America. In many
communities,
it's
a
regular
practice
to
breastfeed
girls
for
a
shorter
time
than
boys so that women can try to get pregnant again with a boy as soon as possible.
As
a
result,
girls
miss
out
on
life-giving
nutrition
during
a
crucial
window
of
their
development,
which
stunts
their
growth
and
weakens
their
resistance
to
disease.

Statistics show that the neglect continues as they grow up. Young girls receive
less
food,
healthcare
and
fewer
vaccinations
overall
than
boys.
Not
much
changes
as
they
become
women.
Tradition
calls
for
women
to
eat
last,
often
reduced to picking over the leftovers from the men and boys.

Abuse

Even after infancy, the threat of physical harm follows girls throughout their
lives. Women in every society are vulnerable to abuse. But the threat is more
severe for girls and women who live in societies where women's rights mean
practically nothing. Mothers who lack their own rights have little protection to
offer their daughters, much less themselves, from male relatives and other
authority figures. The frequency of rape and violent attacks against women in
the developing world is alarming. Forty-five percent of Ethiopian women say
that they have been assaulted in their lifetimes. In 1998, 48 percent of
Palestinian women admitted to being abused by an intimate partner within the
past year.

In some cultures, the physical and psychological trauma of rape is compounded
by an additional stigma. In cultures that maintain strict sexual codes for women,
if a woman steps out of bounds
—
by choosing her own husband, flirting in
public, or seeking divorce from an abusive partner
—
she has brought dishonor
to her family and must be disciplined. Often, discipline means execution.
Families commit
disobedient women.

Appallingly, this
handicapped girl in Pakistan who had been raped was brought before her tribe's
judicial counsel. Although she was the victim and her attacker had been
arrested, the counsel decided she had brought shame to the tribe and ordered
her public execution. This case, which received a lot of publicity at the time, is
not unusual. Three women fall victim to honor killings in Pakistan every
day
—
including victims of rape. In areas of Asia, the Middle East, and even
Europe, all responsibility for sexual misconduct falls, by default, to women.
How to Help


You can help pull down the barriers that keep
girls from attending school and
begin to bring change for women in developing countries. The most direct way
is by easing the financial need that forces families to take their children out of
school in the first place.

Dozens of international organizations are working to improve the livelihood of
impoverished
people.
By
building
infrastructure
and
providing
aid,
vocational
training,
and
education
programs,
they
give
families
in
developing
countries
resources
to
create
healthy
and
stable
lives.
That
takes
the
burden
of
mere
survival
off
young
women
and
gives
them
the
time
to
get
an
education.
With
practical
help
and
encouragement,
girls
are
more
likely
to
enroll
and
stay
in