global “Paramount Moral Challenges” over time

not that this is a heavily simplified model and not all issues are included

first colonization-1800’s: slavery
1900’s: totalitarianism
2000’s: women’s issues
- eg. [mass] rape, sex trafficking, acid attacks, bridge burning, female genital mutilation

poverty and gender inequality

gender inequality is heavily correlated with poverty and periods of economic/political instability
- educating women and girls can help combat this
“women and girls aren’t the problem, but the solution”

Saima had to live with an unemployed, abusive husband
- little food, inadequate shelter, debt, regular physical abuse based on gender (husband’s abuse of wife and daughters)
- her husband began to search for another wife, so Saima signed with the Kashf Foundation to begin her own small business
Kashf is a microfinance institution that groups 25 women to repay debts
- generally, women can’t leave the house without approval from their husbands, but many husbands are fine with it if their wives bring home money
Saima used her $65 grant to start an embroidery business, making her the sole breadwinner of her household
she met increasing demand by employing 30+ neighbors as well as her husband; she was able to:
- pay off her husband’s debt
- keep her daughters in school
- renovate her house and install running water
- buy a television
- buy jewelry
now, Saima’s husband does what she asks of him and accepts that all three of his children are daughters
Saima plans to educate all three through high school and possible college, and can now fund tuition expenses
neither she nor her husband/mother-in-law would dream of having her husband take another wife now
women’s rights has largely been considered a tertiary or low-priority issue, but this goes to show how impactful and beneficial empowering women can be

a bride burning occurs every two hours in India but does not receive news coverage
100,000 girls have been kidnapped and trafficked recently (as of 2020), no news coverage
100 million women are currently mission and there’s a 107:100 male:female gender ratio in China, 108:100 in India, no news coverage
girls often “vanish” because
- less access to healthcare than men (less likely to be vaccinated, ailments dismissed and not taken to the hospital for treatment)
- 1-5 year old girls are 50% more likely to die than 1-5 year old boys in India
- girls face much higher rates of abuse than do boys
there are currently more women missing due to gender-based crimes and suspicion than men who died in wars in the 1900s (including both World Wars)
many women are forced into sexual slavery and prostitution
educating women can be more economically beneficial than any export or factor of production
- education for women → employment → larger workforce → higher production of goods and services → better economy

not that this is a heavily simplified model and not all issues are included

first colonization-1800’s: slavery
1900’s: totalitarianism
2000’s: women’s issues
- eg. [mass] rape, sex trafficking, acid attacks, bridge burning, female genital mutilation

gender inequality is heavily correlated with poverty and periods of economic/political instability
- educating women and girls can help combat this
“women and girls aren’t the problem, but the solution”

Saima had to live with an unemployed, abusive husband
- little food, inadequate shelter, debt, regular physical abuse based on gender (husband’s abuse of wife and daughters)
- her husband began to search for another wife, so Saima signed with the Kashf Foundation to begin her own small business
Kashf is a microfinance institution that groups 25 women to repay debts
- generally, women can’t leave the house without approval from their husbands, but many husbands are fine with it if their wives bring home money
Saima used her $65 grant to start an embroidery business, making her the sole breadwinner of her household
she met increasing demand by employing 30+ neighbors as well as her husband; she was able to:
- pay off her husband’s debt
- keep her daughters in school
- renovate her house and install running water
- buy a television
- buy jewelry
now, Saima’s husband does what she asks of him and accepts that all three of his children are daughters
Saima plans to educate all three through high school and possible college, and can now fund tuition expenses
neither she nor her husband/mother-in-law would dream of having her husband take another wife now
women’s rights has largely been considered a tertiary or low-priority issue, but this goes to show how impactful and beneficial empowering women can be

a bride burning occurs every two hours in India but does not receive news coverage
100,000 girls have been kidnapped and trafficked recently (as of 2020), no news coverage
100 million women are currently mission and there’s a 107:100 male:female gender ratio in China, 108:100 in India, no news coverage
girls often “vanish” because
- less access to healthcare than men (less likely to be vaccinated, ailments dismissed and not taken to the hospital for treatment)
- 1-5 year old girls are 50% more likely to die than 1-5 year old boys in India
- girls face much higher rates of abuse than do boys
there are currently more women missing due to gender-based crimes and suspicion than men who died in wars in the 1900s (including both World Wars)
many women are forced into sexual slavery and prostitution
educating women can be more economically beneficial than any export or factor of production
- education for women → employment → larger workforce → higher production of goods and services → better economy