By Evan Sweeney, Senior, Northgate High School
Afghanistan, the twenty-first century: eighty-seven percent of women are illiterate. Only thirty-percent of girls have access to education. One in every three Afghan women experience some kind of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. (Integrated Regional Information Networks, 2007).
These statistics are only the beginning of a larger problem plaguing much of the Middle East: Afghanistan is just one of several Middle Eastern countries in which
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By Grace Jin - 12th Grade, North Allegheny Senior High School
As one of only four girls in my AP Physics class, I can attest to the fact that women today are still underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. However, the movement to empower female scientists Read more [...] 