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victims to call 999 and the police would protect them. She was also supported by the House of Lords from the Liberal peer, Lord Lester. She joined the second
reading of forced marriage Civil Protection Act. The victims at Karma Nirvana all believe forced marriage was an inescapeable. Jasvinder expected a support
from Derby‟s government to help South Asian women. First, her action could not be heard by the government, but oneday Jasvinder was called by Home Affairs
Select Committee to give evidence of domestic violence, forced marriage and honour-based violence. For her, it was a good point to make the stories of the
victims to be heard. Jasvinder has brought the issue of forced marriage into the public eye and helped Forced Marriage Bill to go through Parliament. In 2007,
she received one of the pretigious Women of the Year awards for her work. She has also received the McWhirter Foundation Award 2007, Best magazine Bravest
Woman Award 2007, and the Inspiration Award for Women 2008. Finally, Jasvinder was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Derby in 2008.
Jasvinder did preventive actions against forced marriage in some schools of her environment. Then, she campaigned against forced marriage in front of
public like governmental departments, laws and bills. After that, she had a lot of opportunities to be a speaker at some international conferences. She shared about
her experience and her struggles against forced marriage. Finally, she could change the sur
vivor‟s life and hope. She promised that the survivors would not walk alone. She provided a refuge that was needed by the survivors.
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B. Implications for Education
The major discussion of Jasvinder Sanghera‟s Daughters of Shame and the main problem of the Third World Feminism is gender inequality. Nowadays, this
issue can be found in our life and environment including education. Gender inequality is a serious problem in education. Therefore, all teachers and
educational practitioners need to know how to build gender equality in educational world.
Education should not only provide academic understanding of the teaching learning material but also good moral and life values. Students should learn a lot
of things about life and society. Sayan Das in his article describes ...education is the vehicle of knowledge, self-preservation and success.
Education do not only gives us a platform to succeed, but also the knowledge of social conduct, strength, character and self-respect. The
greatest gift education gives us is the knowledge of unconditional love and set of values. as cited in Palupi, 2010,p.62
The example is literature. By using literary works, students can have a
vivid example about life, moral, society, culture, history, etc. Paul Fairfield in his book, Education after Dewey stated that literature educates the moral imagination,
social intelligence, or some similar capacity. as cited in Palupi, 2010,p.62. Regarding to what Fairfield has said, literature does not only entertain us
with the good plot, characters, setting. By reading literature or other literary works such as novel, we should learn the moral and life values. Reading novel can help
us to give suggestions, warnings, advice, or restrictions associated with the main ideas of the novel. One of the novels that give many values is Jasvinder
Sanghera‟s Daughters of Shame. After reading this novel, the reader can find
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many moral values and struggles which may enrich the reader‟s understanding
and knowledge about life. Actually, the main point of the novel is gender inequality. The novel Daughters of Shame gives us clear explanations on how
Jasvinder as the main character should take an action to fight forced marriage. Education should make students aware of gender equality. Students should
learn how to respect gender earlier. Gender inequality is related to society norms, religion or cultural traditions. The issue of gender equality needs to be at the core
of the development in all countries. The only solution to this is gender equality, which led women to a better life.
According to Sharma in her journal entitled Gender Inequality In Education And Employment,
education is the key to gender equality and to larger employment opportunities for women. Education is widely recognized as the
gateway to life security and opportunity-particularly for girls and women. Education provides opportunities for women and the reasons for the inherent
gender inequality in many societies p.17. One o
f Jasvinder Sanghera‟s actions was when she did the preventive actions against forced marriage in schools. Jasvinder had given speeches in public
especially education practitioners in order to fight against forced marriage and gender inequality. Children especially girls who had been suspected had to know
their fate before it happened. School was a place to find education and knowledge. In schools, students will be taught about truth, justice, human rights
and equalities.. By educating the students, the issue of gender inequality can be prevented.
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Unconsciously, gender inequality can be happened in school although school is a place to find education, knowledge and truth. All teachers should know
Sharma‟s statement and do the actions like what Jasvinder had done to prevent gender inequality in school. The suggestions for fostering gender equality are
1. Constructing Gender Equality in Teaching Material
Looking at the fact happening in some countries, there are common examples of gender inequality in school. First, the ambiguous pictures and the
statements can be easily found in an assignment. It is commonly used in the teaching material for elementary school even kindergarten. For example
UNIT 2
DAILY ROUTINES
TASK 1
Fill the following questions with the correct answer on the right
1. __________ goes to work everyday.
a. My sister 2.
_________ cooks a meal every morning. b. My father
3. _________ plays football on Friday.
c. My mother 4.
_________ waters the flower twice a week. d. My brother
