That was a pretty impressive speech for a 16-year-old. I couldn't agree more.
I think it was this issue -- education for women -- that first got me to understand the concept of social justice. Studies (which I'm not going to cite because I saw them like 8 years ago) have shown that women who were educated in poor African villages turn out to be more prosperous, live longer, and have less children. The first parts are great for the individual, but the last part improves all of our lives, because less people feeds back into less global warming, less water use, less food use, less land use change. And women become more free to create their own lives, rather than being poor, dependent, or forgotten. And I think it goes without saying that a world with more powerful women is a world that is less friendly to the Taliban and other warlike elements.
So it's not just equality for its own sake, it's equality for everyone's sake. I hope she succeeds.
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I think it was this issue -- education for women -- that first got me to understand the concept of social justice. Studies (which I'm not going to cite because I saw them like 8 years ago) have shown that women who were educated in poor African villages turn out to be more prosperous, live longer, and have less children. The first parts are great for the individual, but the last part improves all of our lives, because less people feeds back into less global warming, less water use, less food use, less land use change. And women become more free to create their own lives, rather than being poor, dependent, or forgotten. And I think it goes without saying that a world with more powerful women is a world that is less friendly to the Taliban and other warlike elements.
So it's not just equality for its own sake, it's equality for everyone's sake. I hope she succeeds.
-- ∇×V