Sheryl WuDunn : Our century's greatest injustice

                              

TED 2010

Sheryl WuDunn : Our century's greatest injustice (transcript)

Summary

In the 19th century, greatest injustice was slavery.

In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism.

And then, in this century, there is still gender inequality.

Even now in developed countries, there is gender inequality on the business, only girls can't go to school or their marriage is controlled or they get aborted before they're even born if they are diagnosed with a girl baby by the sonogram. Furthermore, for girls, there are sex trafficking and birth issues but by those reasons, they are killed. There's the brutality that so many people still face around the world because of their gender in this generation but many people don't know those facts.

The speaker is publishing a book in which the title is “Half the Sky “ that investigates the oppression of women globally. It explains about those facts and solutions.

In fact, to educate girls and to bring women into the formal labor force, it leads to the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism. Women become resources to work, 1) and they are wise enough to spend money.  2)

Even overpopulation problem in poverty can be solved by you educating a girl. 3) It's not difficult for the world. Imagine, when you educate a girl, she tends to get married later, to have fewer kids later on in life, and she educates those kids more. They all including her can have the power to work. With education and economic opportunity, it can change everything.

Our help and donation might fail though  we have to learn from our mistakes and continue to improve. If you are the person who could receive an education have to return it to people, especially women who can't.

We have to know what happens in the world and help save the world.

It makes us happier in our life.

Words in this story

totalitarianism /to・tal・i・tar・i・an・ism/  absolutism, totalism

sonogram / a graph representing a sound, showing the distribution of energy at different frequencies.

oppression / prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
disposable / (of an article) intended to be used once, or until no longer useful, and then thrown away.