Comparing My Father Writes To My Mother

In both the short story and the article I chose, women live in a culture that treats them as if they are lesser than men. In My Father Writes to My Mother, the narrator comes from a culture where a women does not dare speak a man’s name as, “none of the other women ever saw fit to refer to their menfolk…” because the men are the working class in their society. Every 7 seconds, a new child bride explains to the reader about how poorly women, especially younger women, are treated in countries such as Somalia, Mali, Central African Republic, Chad, and Niger, “which all ranked at the bottom of the Girl’s Opportunity Index.” This isolates and lists the countries that struggle at giving women not only equality, but basic rights as well.

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