Psychology Meets Development

Let's challenge ourselves to be who we really are - where will we start?

Happy ! We are closing out the week with words of wisdom from Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing who we are."

A shocking 200 million women around the world fall victims to this ritual practice. Development and gender issues are starting to look more and more intertwined to me. Worth reading.
”Some 44 million victims of FGM around the world are aged 14 or younger, and the majority of girls who have had their ge****ls mutilated were cut before they were five years old, Unicef’s research found”

Number of FGM victims found to be 70 million higher than thought Half of girls and women cut live in just three countries as Unicef statistics reveal shocking global scale of barbaric ritual