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Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Girl Power slogan on display at a women's march in Sacramento, California. The communications scholar Debbie Ging was critical of the "girl power" ideals, and linked it to the sexualisation of younger children, girls in particular. [39] The sociologist Amy McClure warns against placing too much hope on girl power as an empowering concept.
The Day of Girls helps raise awareness not only of the issues that girls face, but also of what is likely to happen when those problems are solved. For example, educating girls helps reduce the rate of child marriage, disease and helps strengthen the economy by helping girls have access to higher paying jobs.
Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, better livelihood and training.
6. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead 7. “All little girls should be told they are pretty.” – Marilyn Monroe 8. “Children really brighten up a ...
Selfie With Daughter campaign is an initiative aimed at promoting the importance of daughters and raising awareness about gender equality.Launched in India, by social activist Sunil Jaglan, it encourages parents to take selfies with their daughters and share them on social media to celebrate the value of girls and to challenge societal norms that may devalue female children.
A 2014 Human Rights Watch report found that "one out of two girls in [Malawi] on average was married by her 18th birthday". [5] Memory Banda has played an influential role at both community, national and recently international level, including presentation of a TED talk, [6] speaking at the 59th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, [7] and at the Oslo Freedom Forum. [8]
Take a Girl Child to Work Day is an annual corporate social investment event, held in South Africa since 2003. Companies involved organise for female learners (school pupils), usually from disadvantaged backgrounds, to spend the day at their place of work on the last Thursday of May.