In chapter six, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss more about the sufferings women have gone through in foreign and rurual countries. From India, to Ethiopia to Congo, women have been raped, beaten, slaved, and killed because in some mens eyes, women of a certain lower class, don't and shouldn't exist as having rights and being honored or even respect at most. In the beginning of the chapter, Kristoff and WuDunn express in telling how in rural areas, a lot of women die because they don't receive the proper medical care during and after childbirth and die from complications of fistulas. "Fistulas like hers are common in the developing world but, outside Congo, are overwhelmingly caused not by rape but by obstructed labor and lack of medical care during childbirth." The story a girl named Mahabouba Muhammad was told and how she was sold and rape and beaten by the man who bought her. Women are not treated equally whatsoever, and i believe it's time that all these instances and experiences come to a rise and show how badly these women have been treated over the years in India and Africa and other places.
In chapter seven, Kristoff and WuDunn really explore and got into the rural areas and get information and personal experience of women who have suffered tremendously. In the beginning of the chapter, Kristoff and WuDunn go into depth of why so many women in India and Africa die during childbirth. Whether it's because of the lack of medical resource, no money to pay the local doctor, or being nieve to getting medical help when pregnant, many women have died or have lost their babies during childbirth. A woman named Prudence had a difficult childbirth and eventually, ended carrying her dead baby in her stomach for some days and that was poisoning herself. The local doctor, Dr. Pipi was quite upset with Prudence because he didn't understand why she never came in before childbirth and got medical care and pre-natal advice to better help her and her baby.
In chapter eight, nine, and ten Kristoff and WuDunn discuss the medical care world for women in third world countries need. In chapter eight, a woman named Rose visited a maternity clinic in Kenya. She was not recognized because she hardly went to the clinic. She went there because she was pregnant and wasn't feeling too well at all. After the doctor saw her, he concluded she had an infection and it was threatening her life as well as her baby's life. The doctor put her on a program that would help her nutrition and take care of the infection she had. CARE and AMDD, were outreach programs that are dedicated to helping clinics, like the one Rose went to, and making sure the women there get the necessities they need during their pregnancies and during childbirth. In chapter nine, Nick discusses his trip to Afghanistan and how he met a man who studied and learn english at a university. Nick learned from the man that his mother never had been to a clinic before. To Nick, this was surprising news, but to the people in Afghanistan, it wasn't at all. Chapter ten has a completely different turn and discusses how a family who was poor in China and didn't have enough money to send their daughter to school or get an education. The father wasn't concerned about sending his daughter to school because he saw that as a "waste" of money because his daughters were going to be selling socks or working in the fields regardless.
Quiz Question: What countries have the most women "sex-slaved" in the world?
Research Question: What defines social standing in determining who should be treated right or wrong? Why do women get excluded from that group as social outcast if they're lower class? Is it a cultural thing in India or China to behave this way?
You did a really good job of summarizing the chapters. However, it would be nice to know to know what you think about our reading. In regards to your research question, I think that hierarchy and social "rules" has a lot to do with inequality but much of it does have to do with cultural aspects.
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