Women Sold In the Slave Trade

Introduction

            Women and young girls from developing countries are more vulnerable to sex slave where most of them are promised good jobs, marriages and enjoyable life. They usually live they home hoping that there will get a greener pasture. The victims disclose that there are given fake travel documents and later linked to a travel network which will take them to their destiny. Other women are sold into sex slavery by their boyfriends, friends, and parents. In these countries, they are forced into sexual slavery and kept in poor conditions, and there are not supposed to talk to anyone about the matter, or they will be killed. Also, the victims are not allowed to go outside the building.

              Trafficking and sex trade are known to be worst forms of violation where the human being rights are exploited. Victims of sexual slavery suffer from physical pain and sexual abuses such as rape and all these bad things are committed against their will. The victims are at high risk of getting STD, AIDS, and HIV (Chin, 2013). In the society, women and girls are less valued compared to men this leads to the violence of all kind, neglect, fewer opportunities and poor medical attention. The authors in the half the sky focused much on the women in the developing countries where they face sex trafficking, maternal mortality, and violence. The authors noted that sex trafficking is not well recognized and that many people are not aware of the problem. The neglect of the sex trafficking is caused by the misogyny, political agendas and the nature of the journalism(Kristof, & WuDunn ,2009).They viewed that most journalist will be likely to cover stories such as attacks by terrorists and political affairs compared to other issues that happen every day. For example every day a number of girls are sold into slavery, raping and these issues go unnoticed and no one cares about them. According to the author's gender equality is not a big concern in many countries. Sexism and misogyny have resulted in hatred of women, this leads to oppression of girls and women. In the society, women are considered less compared to men and therefore their issues are not taken seriously. Justice of women and young girls can only be achieved only when women will be treated equally with men. In half the sky women oppression takes place at many different levels for example government do not value women, women do not appreciate other women and men also do not value women. The problem of the devaluation can only be tackled by the law by modernizing the behavior of the men. Cultures across the world have created misogynistic thinking and the authors suggested that more effort and sacrifice will be made in order to fight oppression of women. This will help people and leaders to recognize the problem and be able to prevent it (Kristof, & WuDunn, 2009)

              Abraham Maslow theory was concerned with human motivations that are in a hierarchy needs. According to Maslow women cannot naturally express their dominance behavior freely like men, women get their training on how to do things from the culture which they grow up in and this affects them in their future. There are those social, traditional rules that show how women should act and behave in a given community, for example, they are trained how to cook, how to catch a man and keep him, how to dress and how to behave. However, they were not taught that a responsible woman should go for careers, further their education or vie for a political seat (Motta, 2011).

            According to Maslow's theory, women are the minority group in the community. In the society, the minority group is discriminated and mistreated because of their cultural and physical characteristics. He viewed women as weak, and there are exploited and discriminated in the community. He noted that in the expression of dominance by sexual violence such as rape women are viewed as objects and men as dominant. However, Maslow failed to notice that over the year’s women violence have been common all over the world. In the past and the modern society, there is still violence against women, prostitution, sex trafficking and slavery (Rutledge, 2008). According to traditional, cultural and social norms, women were taught to respect and not to fight their men, and this limits them. Also, sexual potency proves domination for the man.

              In conclusion, sex trade has long-term effects on the victims such as emotional stress which can lead to suicidal thoughts. Using multi-dimensional approaches such as creating awareness can help to fight sex trafficking of women and girls. The government should come up with laws and enforcement to punish the criminals who engage in the business of trafficking women and girls. Well-wishers and government should provide the victims with the resources and programs this will help them to improve their standard of living for themselves and their families.

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

 Chin, C. B. N. (2013). Cosmopolitan sex workers: Women and migration in a global city. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kristof, N. D., & WuDunn, S. (2009). Half the sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 Motta, S. C. (2011). Hispanic women seeking higher leadership roles in business. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris.

 Rutledge, L. S. (2008). Motivation and the professional African American woman. Bloomington, IN: Author House.