Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into

Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Barbara Clausen (Past ΑΣ State President, ΑΣ State Parliamentarian)Jane Gerdon (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State Scholarship Chair)Wendy Selde (Chi Chapter Past President, ΑΣ State Nominations Chair), and Glenda Reynolds (Past NW Regional Director)

Slavery

O Modern Day Slavery

Slavery

O Modern Day Slavery

O Worldwide Prostitution

SlaveryWomen who are in prostitution have very little ability to make

their daughters aspire to do something different. It’s not

that transgenerational prostitution happens because they want to make it happen.

It’s because they have no option, they have no escape.

- ‐Urmi Basu

Slavery

O Modern Day Slavery

O Worldwide Prostitution

O Modern Triangular Trade

Slavery A lot of the brutality against girls and

women is rooted in deep cultural stereotypes about the worth of

women. And it’s not that different from the way African American slaves

were viewed in 18th- ‐ or 19th- ‐century America or Europe. These

[people] were not fully human, these were some other kind of being that

under the Bible or under a convenient social rationale were put

on Earth to serve somebody else- ‐Hillary Clinton

Slavery

O Modern Day Slavery

O Worldwide Prostitution

O Modern Triangular Trade

O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

Slavery

O Modern Day Slavery

O Worldwide Prostitution

O Modern Triangular Trade

O Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking

O Mapping Slavery

Slavery – Mapping Slavery

Slavery – Mapping Slavery

Maternal Mortality: Greatest Health Inequity

of 21st CenturyLifetime risk of maternal death in

childbirth is 1,000 times higher in a poor country than in the West.

• Niger: 1 in 7 chance of dying in childbirth.• Sub-Saharan Africa: 1 in 32• India: 1 in 70• Sri Lanka: 1 in 850• United States: 1 in 4,800• Italy: 1 in 26,000• Ireland: 1 in 47,600

Mortality Causes

COMPLICATIONS:Medical Care: unavailable, too far away, inadequate, or unaffordable

80% Deaths are due to:Hemorrhaging Obstructive labor Sepsis Unsafe abortion Pre-eclampsia Indirect causes

Mortality Causes

Obstructive Labor – 3 major causes1. Anthopoid pelvis – elongated, fast runners2. Female Genital Mutilation – genital cutting3. Fistulas – a passage or hole between two organs in the body

A. The story of “M”B. Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital

Mortality Causes

Maternal health generally gets minimal attention because those who die or suffer injuries, overwhelmingly start with three strikes against them. They are female, poor, and rural.

-Half the Sky, p. 97

Mortality Causes

Edna Adan

Top ranking official WHO (World Health Organization)

O Hospital Site ( former military parade ground/dump)

O Ian Fisher/FinancingO Maternity HospitalO Making a DifferenceO Total attention to the patient’s needs

EducationO Investing Education:O Procter & Gamble-building toilets (FemCare)

gold-plated projects—flashy but less effective;O Iodized salt 31% households developing world-

brain damage less -- unglamorous project;O Bribery or local projects make a difference:

Mexico grants for girls’ families;O International projects must be a partnership;

Microcredit FinancingAxis of Equality

Financing: Kahsf (Pakistan) Heifer goats (Africa)Women to Women International: effective because it touches people at the grassroots level & involves themCountries: women get educated and can work, the economy turns around, children’s IQs increase!Just send money: effective in countries with good governance with women involved and equal opportunitiesOther countries: join partnerships with local connections

Four Steps You Can Take in Ten Minutes

O Go to www.globalgiving.org and open a P2P account (Link directly to a person in need overseas, browse) or www.kiva.org (browse for micro lending) or www.givology.com (causes in China, India, Africa to support local projects — end prostitution, etc.)

O Sponsor a girl THR Plan International, Women for Women Int’l, World Vision, or American Jewish World Service.

O Sign up for email updates www.womensenews.org or www.worldpulse.com (actions to prevent abuse)

O Join CARE Action Network www.can.care.org (speak out with policymakers)

How Can YOU Make A Difference?

In pairs or trios, as an individual or

chapter, what can YOU do?

ClosureO Complete the evaluationO Buy a book and read it all!O Watch the video

~O Go www.deltakappagamma.org/WA/ for this

Power Point and opening quotes.O Go to www.halftheskymovement.org for more

informationO Go to www.sharedhope.org for information on

what a local group is doing.O Go to www.compassion2one.org for information

on ways to help domestically.