Feminist view of problems in Africa

Joni Seager’s The Penguin Atlas for Women highlights many disturbing and unfathomable facts regarding the status of women throughout the world. With such an overwhelming amount of staggering statistics, it is difficult to determine the best course of action for the United Nations. It is easy to be overwhelmed and eager to make changes when so many women are suffering. However, in order to be most effective, it is important to separate issues and geographic areas by degree of importance. To that end, before attempting to improve the status of women throughout the entire world, the United Nations should concentrate on elevating the status of women to at least “low rank,” by focusing on the interrelated common issues surrounding birthrates, literacy, primary school enrolment, and poverty in those countries who are below the “low rank” level.
Those who need to be elevated to the status of “low rank” are the most severe cases and are easy to determine. In the Gender ...