Hey it's Gabby! It's been a while since I last posted on this blog, but that didn’t stop me from reading. I have currently finished the book Half the Sky but there is so much that I have learned. As you know by now, Half the Sky is a book that describes the life of women living in less developed countries. These women go through so much because they are not treated equally compared to men. In these countries, women do not have the right to almost anything and men are seen as the superior gender. This causes many problems for women, like being the target in brothels and many child birthing problems. Women are not seen as a human but just an object that reproduces children. They do not receive the proper medical attention when they are sick since parents in these countries don’t believe in providing medical attention to girls. Since they do that, their husbands do the same thing when it comes to paying for the proper childbirth. In this book, they talk about the dangers of childbirth in less developed countries. Many women die from childbirth since their family don’t have the money to save her. Or if they did, then they wouldn’t use the money to save her. If they are not treated in time, they could die or develop a very dangerous infection in the birth carriage called fistula. This causes a bowel infection for women who were not treated during pregnancy and can cause their feces and other bowel systems to leak. When this happens to women they are usually kicked out of their homes because the smell is too much for everyone in the home to handle. Sometimes the people in the village will believe that this happened to women if they were cursed. They will leave them out of the house to get eaten by animals. This happens to women all over the world, but especially in Africa where it is hard to earn money to obtain medical attention. There are many effective ways to address these problems. One way would be finding ways to get more help for women to get money to be able to go to the hospital during child birthing. This would reduce the number of women who die from childbirth or obtaining fatal infections. Many hospitals have tried to help this rate by letting some people receive treatment for free, thinking that they will get paid later but that never happened. This caused the hospitals to not give out free services and letting people die if they did not have the money for the treatment. Though this seems like a selfless act on the hospital's part, I could understand why they would have to do that. Treatments are expensive and costs the hospital a lot of money to perform. If they are not being repaid, this can cause the hospital money and then it would be bad for everyone. Another way would be donating money to organizations that help women educate themselves so they wouldn't be in that situation in the first point. The main people who are being affected by labor issues are teenagers who were raped and stuck with the baby, and also teenagers who are married young. Since their pelvis is not completely developed yet, it makes it difficult for them to have a baby without help from medical assistance. If they were educated, they wouldn't want to marry so young and lower the rate of young pregnancies. They would learn the dangers of having a child young and what would happen if they have problems during childbirth. Thankfully there are a lot of organizations with a goal to help with girls think twice about getting married young. Also some that help provide medical help for women who suffer from problems in childbirth. I could help by spreading the word about the concern of women dying from childbirth and how they are not able to get money to help them survive. By this, I could earn money from my campaign and send it to organizations that are dedicated in helping women not go through maternal mortality. This could help hundreds of women around less developed countries get the help that they need.
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