{"id":4832,"date":"2015-08-07T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2024-12-18T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:02:42","slug":"women-not-wee-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/women-not-wee-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Women…NOT Wee Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Poverty is an injustice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of reasons for it being so but one of them is that girls and women suffer disproportionately more from and because of it than men. (Click here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> or here<\/a> for blog posts about how girls and women in Nepal suffer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am certain that, after the earthquakes<\/a> of April 25 and May 12, those who are suffering and exploited the most are girls and women from poor families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, the rate at which they are trafficked<\/a> now, I am sure, far exceeds that before the quake. And you needn’t be a genius to predict or know or say that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is responsible for that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our society and our mentality — correction, Nepalese men’s mentality in general — is to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no others but ourselves, us, Nepalese men, to blame mostly for the sufferings of our women AND, therefore, our country’s lack of economic and social progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not unlike in many other countries I have lived and traveled, we subjugate and\/or exploit our girls and women; forget about creating an environment — social, cultural, economic and political environment — where they are able to live life to the fullest and where they are able to realize their full potential as a human being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sad irony, however, is that supporting and empowering poor girls and women through poverty-alleviation or related programs — more than any other poverty-alleviation program — reduces and helps fight poverty most effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again and again and again, girls and women have been shown to make considerably MORE significant contribution — directly or indirectly — to the well-being of their families and to the social progress of their communities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study after study have shown the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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