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Provided by: Population Matters |Published on: April 11, 2025
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Synopsis
This article from Population Matters explains how educating women and girls about family planning and giving them equal rights to social, educational, and career opportunities can lead to prosperity for women and girls and for their communiities and families.
The article is written by Dr. Yasmeen Qazi, a medical doctor, reproductive health expert, and Pakistani woman, who describes the situation women face in Pakistan and in other nations.
This article illustrates the power of knowledge and information.
The article is relatively brief and can be read and discussed in one class period.
Prerequisites
Students should understand the link between population growth and climate change.
Differentiation & Implementation
Students studying the Sustainable Development Goals can connect this article to Gender Equality: SDG 5. Students can do further research on the goals to determine which other goals connect to women's rights.
To demonstrate their understanding of the article, students can write a paragraph citing evidence from the article to answer the question, How can women's education and reproductive health improve society?
This article focused on women's rights in Pakistan. Students can choose a country to research the issues of women's rights prevalent there.
Social studies students can explore population control policies and explain why these are not as effective as empowering women and girls.
