Gender parity / myLot

Nairobi, Kenya

March 9, 2016 12:05am CST

As women international day was being celebrated yesterday part of it was to continue striving for gender parity. I was thinking about it the whole day and it made me wish and hope every lady no matter the age can rise up and celebrate. However on news the other day there was a case of girls being circumcised at 2 years since as teenagers they are running away from it. Tears of pain is all they had not knowing what that will cost them later in life. It really makes me sad. The other was a case of a primary school which has not taken any girl child to high school for the last 7 years. The 27 girls who sat for their exams last year did not join high school this year because they are all married right now. Six girls in that school are already pregnant. We really have so much to do before we achieve the goal

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Mar 16

Even in Australia, enlightened as we might like to think we are, women are paid much less than men in ALL areas.

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Mar 16

I hope in some years to come all this will be history

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Mar 16

@JudyEv And i can imagine how happy the world would be with happy women and girls everywhere. So much would change

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

9 Mar 16

@Missmwngi It would be nice if this happens.

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

9 Mar 16

Injustice continues...

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Hope

@1hopefulman (45111)

• Canada

9 Mar 16

@Missmwngi Every day we see horrible things happening. Oh God, save us!

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Mar 16

@1hopefulman NOt even a day but minutes,seconds and hours

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Mar 16

Oooh yeah;so sad The painful thing;those who we expect to protect them are the ones hurting them

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

9 Mar 16

Girls being circumsized how barbaric that is and no way would it be allowed here. I worked where a woman was paid the same as a man and no way would I have stayed if it was otherwise.

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Margaret Mwangi

@Missmwngi (12915)

• Nairobi, Kenya

9 Mar 16

Here we got those cultures that still do it though the government is doing all it can. The problem is education/information