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 status of women becomes worse.
             Poverty is a problem because most children who grow up in poverty, die there. They don't necessary get shot or killed, they end up not being able to climb out poverty and get a decent job, especially women. Women in Africa are forced to be prostitutes because they need to support their family. When women do this they end up having a bigger family. Women live in poverty in a disproportionate number. "My mother lived and died in poverty and so did her mom, one day I will too because I have no food or money." "Why have women become so much poorer? There is no one reason. In countries like Kenya and India, cut backs resulting from the International Monetary Fund's and Structural adjustment policies (SAP's) have affected women most because they are the main recipients of education and health." There are more women than men in poverty. Out of the 4.3 million displaced 80% of them are women. In a study carried out over 20 years the number of rural women in poverty has increased by 50% reaching an awesome 565 million. "Poverty has influenced women's lives more than any factor over the last decade." If women are in poverty they will not be able to help fight to gain their rights.
             For many many years, generations of girls would and will give up their education 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 ...