Watch Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Night 2. You can check the episodes out at your local library, or you can rent/buy on Amazon: (Free with Prime membership)
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- Segment 2. Discrimination to death
- Segment 3. Midwives in Somaliland
- Segment 4. A force of nature
Edna Adan is the first licensed nurse-midwife in her Somalia. From 1997 to 2006 Maternal Mortality decreased from 16 deaths per 1,000 live births to 10 per 1,000.
Henslin defines a social problem as an aspect of society (the objective condition) that large numbers of people are concerned about (the subjective condition). 1
- Explain how this documentary covers both the objective and subjective elements of the the social problem of Maternal Mortality in Somalia.
- What forces are working against women in Somalia, despite the objective statistics that show women are oppressed?
- Do research on the practice of FGM in the USA. Is it practiced and is it legal?