1) Because girls are the ones left behind in developing countries- they are chosen to fetch for water or learn to cook while boys go to school 2) girls are the ones that are most sexually abused in terms of registered cases 3) if pregnant, their future to support themselves is greatly diminished given that it compromises their ability to study or get a job if having to care for a kid/s and they are mostly left alone with no partner to share the responsibility. 4) Studies have shown repeatedly that when the same amount of money is given to men and women, the women distribute it focusing on family and community, the numbers speak for themselves. In a nutshell.

you're impatient. Do some research and find out if Africa is getting better. I think it is. There's a growing middle class and less civil wars (although it may not seem like, these used to be worse)

Poverty in sub Saharan Africa has been cut in half since the 90’s

actually this is not feminism, feminism now is not talking about 'investing' to a girl so that she can change the economy. Feminists are mostly talking about the 'human rights' need. We need gender equality not because she can earn money and change the world in the end (and obviously this is not a logical causation), but she is a person. So this video and this pragmatic approach (also promoted by the World Bank) are actually the things they stand against.

Best do nothing then

1) Because girls are the ones left behind in developing countries- they are chosen to fetch for water or learn to cook while boys go to school 2) girls are the ones that are most sexually abused in terms of registered cases 3) if pregnant, their future to support themselves is greatly diminished given that it compromises their ability to study or get a job if having to care for a kid/s and they are mostly left alone with no partner to share the responsibility. In a nutshell

@The Mountain women piss me the fuck off and the SJWs who support this shit makes me wanna go and shoot up one of their protests

If they get pregnant that is their fault and in 2019 its pretty much illegal to be a man. So where is the boyeffect ? @@karinachezcramer7997

Feminism has not helped anyone and is just a problem

Begone

Says the one who just said 'haft'.......

JustCallMe Alli Yes because my use of haft really matters, go fuck youself Alli.

'Haft' isn't a word, you moronic giz bag and you're saying that THIS is dumb? Wow.

JustCallMe Alli Yes because one grammatical mistake someone makes is a way to determine their intelligence my spelling may be bad, but your logic is broken.

My logic is that this video is dumb, that this organisation is amazing and YOU'RE dumb if you think this is.

The world has changed for the better. The more organisations like this, the better. I went to Thailand when I was younger and there were very few people living on the streets. If you went there even 10 years ago there would probably be thousands. It's saying that one girl you invested in can convince others to do that same, because she knows what it's like. Then those people invest in another girl and so on and so forth.

Educating, empowering, and investing in the wellbeing of young women in developing countries is the fastest way to inject WORLDWIDE change for the better. You are speaking from a very narrow mindset. You should get real and stop striking out at videos on the internet. Do something good for the world.

in most developing countries, yes you can expect all that by investing in a girl

Most likely this was done in Adobe After Effects. The other Girl Effect video with the actual girl character was done in a program like Maya/Cinema 4D/Blender(free). You can tell because she is not just a 2d shape, but she has some volume as she spins.

Educating women and giving them a better future is PROVEN yes PROVEN to drastically improve a whole country's economy so yes this does help a whole lot

Emory Olander proven where?

@@epickittylover489 Literally decades worth of studies and initiatives. LMGT4U: www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/economic-empowerment/facts-and-figures

Pretty much.

Power comes from within, not from someone else giving it to you. Girls have power anyway, they are being defined as powerless which takes away from their image any power and empowers the one defining them. This girl effect is only defining Third World women and girls as powerless people who need to be empowered by others who don't really know anything about them, it's just based on a series of assumptions (assumptions about their poverty and assumptions about the solutions that only others can apparently offer). There are girls and women in this situation, but not all. Also, the video is very problematic because it defines boys and men as pests and problems that infringe the progress of women, this they are not. Controlling others and ruling the world happens in many different ways and one of the ways it is done is by producing a dichotomy between 'you' and the 'other' and defining your people as great, powerful and knowledgeable, and the others as powerless and in need of saving from their environment and their people. That is how i see the video. 'Modern economies' are only 'modern' because of the exploitation and labour they get from the Third World and their own people. Also, i don't believe that modern economies are modern in that sense of the word at all. They are modern in that they are the economies of the day. I'm sure you wouldn't say that other countries with different economic orders are backwards.

I think this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen