It is a powerful incentive for families to invest in their daughters that protects girls from child marriage.
Education values girls beyond their domestic capabilities. Gates is especially sincere when advocating girls' education, writing that it is a good deed that "never dies". The impact of this? There would be 100-150 million less undernourished people. For example, a 2011 UN study revealed that if we provided poor female farmers the same resources and information available to men, their yield would be equal. Moreover, Gates clarifies that dividing work by gender on the false pretence of "natural abilities" prevents men and women from developing skills in areas outside what is socially expected of them.Įven where women work outside their social expectations, say, in agriculture, they remain under-acknowledged. Gates reveals that when fathers bear at least 40 percent of childcare responsibilities, not only are they at a lower risk of depression and drug abuse, but their children receive higher exam results, have stronger self-esteem and fewer behavioural problems. Mothers who dare ask fathers to take on parental responsibilities are vilified as uncaring despite the fact that reducing the mother's parental workload will actually help her family.
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