Injustices+for+women

Did you know if you were a 1-5 year old girl in India you are 50% more likely to die then a boy the same age? Did you know that for every development dollar spent, only about 2 cents reaches a girl? Did you know in a developing country a girl will give 90% of her money to her family, but a man will only give 30%? Did you know if you were a girl born in Afghanistan you might have acid splashed in your face for going to school?

In Afghanistan at a thriving all-girls school next to a prison Shamsia walked to school like she always did. She noticed some members of the Taliban circling her school, but thought nothing of it. Then one of the bikers peeled off to ask her an odd question- 'Do you go to school?' Shamsia nodded her reply and the man pulled an acid-filled syringe out of his pocket and squirted it in her face. As she fell to the ground screaming the bikers began squirting other girls in the face. When her father arrived and carried her to hospital he thought she was dead. 2 weeks later the school reopened and Shamsia was there. Her eyes were damaged so she couldn't read, but she still came. In Afghanistan women are considered inferior. But girls will do anything to try and change that. They will risk their lives to go to school, and their illiterate mothers will push them out the door. In 2001 only 1 million children were enrolled in school, all of them boys. Why? The education of girls was illegal. Now only a third of school pupils are girls, because of attacks like Shamsia's. Shamsia said 'The people who did this to me don't want us to learn. They just want us to be stupid things.'
 * Afghanistan**

In a Pakistani household a women was about to have her husband marry again because she had two daughters. She went to a class where she learnt how to embroider. She borrowed $65 from the charity that sponsored the classes and started a business
 * Pakistan**