African Women

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16 2/3 percent of women are battered by their partners and 46% of these cases the children are beaten too. "If you go to the police and complain that your husband is abusing you or hitting you the authorities would think, ‘Oh well she probably deserved it!"’ Said Lindy Mieza. A woman named Geli wrote about her life in which she says, "My mother…she constantly suffered terrible physical and mental abuse from him…" Fifty percent of women in Africa women will be raped in their life time.. There were 23,806 rapes in the first six months of 1996. And what worse is that police estimate that for every rape reported another thirty-five takes place. South Africa, "Already confronting the worlds worst murder rate the country has a harrowing new fact to face: there is a rape every 25 seconds.." Geli wrote, "Being raped doesn’t mean it’s by some you don’t know, I was raped by my husband and his friends…" In conclusion, when men over power women, women feel less and less important and the ...

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for their brother because he getting an education is more important than her getting one. Lindy Mieza once said, "If you look at our country, it is the women who are the first to dropped at school to give places to their brothers." Girls in Africa get a second class education. Many girls have dropped out of school because they were raped and need to take care of their babies that have no fathers. "I once went to school, but then I was raped and had a baby." A fourteen year old girl told a reporter. Women should be able to go to school just like men but, "Only the wealthiest girls are able to obtain an education." , There are 52 million boys who do not go to primary school. But their are ...

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