What does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? For the most part, we are very free in what we are “allowed to do” but I feel like “slut shaming” is still a problem here, and in Europe in general. For example, we are free in our choice of clothes but there are limits to it (coming back to slut shaming, etc). We also don’t get paid equally as yet.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? Life as a girl in my country is challenging in every aspect. Some girls are engaged at the early age of 16-17 with men older than them. Life as a girl requires you to fight everyday for the basic rights boys are given without thinking twice.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? A lot of girls are getting married thinking its a lifetime achievement because that's what society makes us think and these marriages are not lasting more than 6 months. This hypes the rate of abuse, women have been convinced to stay no matter what happens and men glorified for what they do since women become their absolute properties after paying dowry.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? Being a South Indian, I can say women are more educated and powerful socially, economically and politically in our part of the country. Balanced sex ratio results in giving equal importance to male and female children. Here, life of a girl is culture-oriented, focused on education, job and marriage. Women empowerment has so far improved things for women from all walks of life.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? Life as a woman in Karachi, Pakistan, is sadly, a daily struggle. My country is rated as one of the worst in the world for women and while I love my country because it is my home, I hate how I feel here…And this is coming from a privileged upper middle-class woman.
Read MoreWhat would you like the world to know about YOU? What life experience, challenge or achievement do you want to share? I have been able to get out of the capsule that surrounds every other girl in my country. I was able to open my eyes to how my life is important to be lived just the way I want it. It does not necessarily need a man to fulfill it. I was able to pursue my studies and get a Bachelor’s Degree, and I am willing to get my Master's Degree as well. I could travel alone and experience all the negative feedback about a solo female traveller. I could speak my mind and never worry about my appearance and the criticism I would receive for it.
Read MoreHow have the women and girls around you helped you to get to where you are today? My mother is a strong 'get up and go' type feminist. She believes that failure is no reason to stop, especially for a woman, and that our inner strength should drive us to achieve more and be more as women.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? I see a lot of women in unhappy marriages simply because they rely on their husband's wealth. I don't blame them, most of these women are good mothers who will do anything for their children even if it means staying in a marriage that they are unhappy in. A lot of other women are raising their children alone as a result of divorce, or being abandoned by their husbands - these women are looked down upon. The life of women in my country requires strength, love and perseverance. Women and girls in my country are working hard to change the status quo, to get women educated, working and starting their own businesses. We have a long way to go, but hopefully we will get there.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? Without education, you can't go anywhere. Here, education is everything but once you are married, that's all you become - a slave to the man. It all ends there... .it all ends there 😢😢.
Read MoreWhat does life as a woman or girl look like in your country / city / town / village? Any issues / challenges / exciting milestones? The challenge we face in my country is the biased judgments of men and women which are based on outdated theories for e.g. the ideal work for a female in my country is home-making and even in the higher, more developed income group of society, the bias remains the same.
My milestone was challenging the status quo of how a girl or a woman should be. I had to fight not just the scenario in the society about my choices and directions but also in my home within my family. It was and still is difficult to explain why a girl has all the rights to what she wants when she wants to create a life on her own. [Society] should be able to see a strong girl and be familiar with it.
Read MoreLife is a challenge in my country. For women it is a battle. You have to protect yourself from everything. You are considered to be free to choose whatever you like but it's not like that at all. You are not free. You are caged in this narrow minded society.
Read MoreEverybody thinks you have the perfect life just because you‘re blonde and live in Germany. But you are judged because you are blonde if you travel to other countries. Everybody thinks you are just easy to get or naive or dumb.
Read MoreOnce we acknowledge it and realize that we don't need other people's approval to bring about a change and we start empowering those around us, it WILL create a ripple. It will bring about change and from that point on.. there's no going back.
Read MoreI've had to endure a lot in my life to get where I am today. I've been made to feel worthless by men for as long as I can remember. I'm so grateful that I took control of my own life a few years ago, and now I'm proud to be the woman that I am.
Read MoreLife as a woman in the United States varies greatly. From what little I know of major cities like NYC, a woman can be almost completely equal to a man. But where I am, in a rural part of Texas, we have a bit to go. We have a teen pregnancy rate double the state average, and yet almost every girl I know claims to be a devout Christian having never had sex.
Read MoreI am very passionate about fashion and creating just about anything. I believe everyone can create and become whoever they want and it’s all in the mind. I have been able to start my own company and still building myself. I am still working on getting a platform where I am able to help young women out there, and especially in Ghana, to be independent women…
Read MoreOur lives are mainly attached to marriage, carrying children, who ever breaks those laws get called the worst names? Why? I guess the reason is going back to the beliefs of individuals in my society. I wish my country would understand the importance of women and their ability to change the world.
Read MoreLife as a woman in my country is somewhat challenging. Women were use to being disrespected, abused or shut behind closed doors, but we have evolved. We are now being entrepreneurs, great leaders, wonderful mothers and much more.
Read MoreLet's just say that we may have had the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim country and a lot more besides, but we literally don't exist as official citizens without including our father's or husband's names on our ID cards and passports right below our own names. You're either "wife of" or "daughter of" or you simply don't exist. Having said that, women are making advances in literally every professional field here so it's not as hopeless as the international news media often depicts in its search for ratings driven content. Pakistani women are generally strong, resilient, and pretty damn smart.
Read More'Her? How can she be a CEO, she is a woman'. Such comments that are heard every where. Some even coming from a fellow woman herself. All due to social conditioning. Every member of the community has been conditioned to think of a woman as a helper. Not a do-er. And never a leader. Our society has been conditioned to make us think twice about what we wear, about how we talk, how we walk and even how we look at others. Because nobody will want to marry a female that can't cook. So society says.
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