Women Empowerment is appearing more in countries all around the world. In Africa they have 37 countries that have the most women in parliament and they dedicated 2016 to Women Empowerment and this year the theme is Human Rights but focusing on women's rights. In Kenya women empowerment will accelerate their economy. When Obama visited Kenya he said, "Imagine if you have a team and don't let half of the team play. That makes no sense,". His message he was an exhortation for communities to shun cultures that degrade women and girls. More than half a billion women have joined the world’s work force over the past 30 years, and they make up 40 percent of the agriculture labor force. According to the World Bank, countries with greater gender equality are more prosperous and competitive. Some countries like the UK won't let women fight on the frontline. In northern Pakistan, they banned women from shopping alone during the month of July which is Ramadan. Women are banned from some of the top golf clubs in the UK. It is illegal in Indonesia for women to straddle a motorcycle. Women were barred from bingo in the UK because two groups got into a bloody fight. In China women are not allowed to study mining because they would use too much energy that they could use somewhere else. A pastor in Texas discourages women for wearing weaves in his church. Some countries and people still discourage women but from where we were 100 years ago, women are moving in the right direction.
In A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, women were not respected like they are now. Especially in that time period women were treated so badly. It was not normal for a woman to live on her own or leave her husband. In the play Nora is treated like a doll by her husband and he degrades her by calling her animal names. Nora is used to this treatment because her father treated her like this too. Finally Nora realizes that she is never taken seriously and that she is only there to be shown off because she is pretty but being under a mans control her whole life she doesn't know who she really is and she needs to find herself.
