Welcome to teen kids news, betsy. Thanks for having me today. Its great to be here. Why are so many girls and women living in poverty . Well, around the world, we have about 2 billion to 3 billion people that live on just a couple dollars a day. Thats in asia, africa, latin america. And the main factor is that a lot of those cultures are very maledominated. And girls and women are noted e considerqual citizens, and therefore, theyre discriminated against. What are the biggest issues they face . A huge issue for girls in the developing world is just getting to school at all. And they spend a lot of time on chores every day that you or i just use manual tools for, but they dont have any of those tools. No electricity, no water no running water. So they spend a lot of time on that, and its just hard for them to get to school at all. Its much more common, if boys are sick, they take care of the boys. If girls are sick, sometimes they overlook it. And in many of these places, they marry gir
To help make their lives a bit better. Betsy teutsch is the author of the book 100 under 100 one hundred tools for empowering global woman. Welcome to teen kids news, betsy. Thanks for having me today. Its great to be here. Why are so many girls and women living in poverty . Well, around the world, we have about 2 billion to 3 billion people that live on just a couple dollars a day. Thats in asia, africa, latin america. And the main facto lot of those cultures are very maledominated. And girls and women are noted e considerqual citizens, and therefore, theyre discriminated against. What are the biggest issues they face . A huge issue for girls in the developing world is just getting to school at all. And they spend a lot of time on chores every day that you or i just use manual tools for, but they dont have any of those tools. No running water. So they spend a lot of time on that, and its just hard for them to get to school at all. And they also lack healthcare. Its much more common, i
One hundred tools for empowering global woman. Welcome to teen kids news, betsy. Thanks for having me today. Its great to be here. Why are so many girls and women living in poverty . Well, around the world, we have about 2 billion to 3 billion people that live on just a couple dollars a day. Thats in asia, africa, latin america. And the main factor is that a lot of those cultures are very maledominated. And girls and women are not coed ensiderqual citizens, and therefore, theyre discriminated against. What are the biggest issues they face . A huge issue for girls in the developing world is just getting to school at all. And they spend a lot of time on chores every day that you or i just use manual tools for, but they dont have any of those tools. No electricity, no water no running water. So they spend a lot of time on that, and its just hard for and they also lack healthcare. Its much more common,f boys are sick, they take care of the. If girls are sick, sometimes they overlook it. An
The book 100 under 100 one hundred tools for empowering global woman. Welcome to teen kids news, betsy. Thanks for having me today. Its great to be here. Why are so many girls and women living in poverty . Well, around the world, we have about 2 billion to 3 billion people that live on just a couple dollars a day. Thats in asia, africa, latin america. And the main factor is that a lot of those cultures are very maledominated. And girls and women are noted e considerqual citizens, and therefore, theyre discriminated against. What are the biggest issues they face . A huge issue for girls in the developing world is just getting to school at all. And they spend a lot of time on chores every day that you or i just use manual tools for, but they dont have any of those tools. No electricity, no water no running water. Them to get to school at all. And they also lack healthcare. Its much more common, if boys are sick, they take care of the boys. If girls are sick, sometimes they overlook it. A
That have reputations for being the hardest to get into. The ivies harvard, yale. Princeton. Columbia. Cornell. All the ivy leagues. University of virginia, ucal, even. Northwestern. Vassar. Carnegie mellon. Duke, syracuse. U. Chicago. Mit and university of california. Stanford. Georgetown. And there are lots of others. But still, getting into a good college can be daunting. To give us some advice, were joined by jason ma. Well as the author of the book Young Leaders 3. 0. Hi, jason. Hi. Thanks for inviting me. How important is it to get into one of the top colleges . I think it would depend on your own ambition and your aspirations. If you want to really go for getting into the superelite schools here, then you are going to have to work a lot smarter and harder in preparation. But a lot of kids are happy with state schools and all that. And i would advise that dont goal. Its part of your journey through your, towards your dreams and aspirations. Is it getting harder every year to get