The Girl Effect

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Fascinating, eh?
While it's true that women are even more marginalized and as a group in general more "underdeveloped" than men, the girl effect is still focusing on treating the symptoms not the root cause, the cause mainly being the broken nature of a human's heart. At the same time, it breezes through many social barriers that will be in the way of the "girl effect". In most places where women are neglected and undervalued, the society's beliefs, value of and treatment of women has been deeply entrenched that it won't easily be overcome by human effort. Again, treating symptoms and not cause. It also ignores the complex world of development. The marginalization of women isn't an isolated issue in an isolated context. There's many socioeconomic, political, religious issues that entangle it in a web. It's a good draw to get people interested in social justice, but there's danger in creating apathy and cynicism when it fails to deliver what it promises, namely an easy solution to the world's problems.

Treat the symptoms and the CAUSE.

If I was sick, no doctor will just give me the medicine to stop the running nose, cough, without giving me something that will also stop the infection.