Type: Block Method
Title: Women: Is it beneficial to empower them to Hold Positions apart from traditional ones
Introduction
Context: Women
Subject: Empowering women
Limited Subject: 1) Holding positions apart from traditional ones. 2) The advantages and disadvantages
Thesis: The essay will discuss and find whether the disadvantages advantage of empowering women to hold positions beside their roles in a traditional system is most important to their life and communities.
Disadvantages
Main Idea 1: Family Breakdown
Supporting Idea 1: Wife can be out of control if employed i) Can assess to Alcohol ii) Can Date other men
Supporting Idea 2: Divorces increase i) Employed women can be self-dependent ii) Wives may rely no more on husbands
Main Idea 2: No one will care for the home Supporting Idea 1: Children of employed couples will not be well disciplined i) Mothers will have no time to care ii) and to show love
Supporting Idea 2) Houses will not be well managed i) Wife will not have time to clean ii) Untidy and unmanaged house
Main Idea 3: Women are vulnerable to violence especially if they work Supporting Idea 1: Rape i) 95 % of sexually raped victims around the world are women ii) 68 % are sexually raped when away from home
Supporting Idea 2: Husbands Jealousy that results in Domestic Violence i) Happens if a wife comes late from work ii) Or seen with other men
Transition Paragraph * Suppress the disadvantage by supporting the advantages * Importance of empowering women * Moving to the second part
Advantages
Main Idea 4: If women are empowered, it can reduce poverty around the world. Supporting Idea 1: Women have the largest number of unemployment i) Most women rely on men ii) Women make only about 40 % of employed individuals while me 60 % around the world
Supporting Idea 2: Women forms the largest number of poverty on earth i) 70% from 1.1 billion people in 2005 who live in extreme
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