Ziauddin Yousafazai discusses, in the Ted Talk My Daughter Malala, how the Taliban attacked his daughter Malala Yousafazai on October 9, 2012 simply because she stood up for the rights of women to be educated. Malala survived and ever since then she has continued to fight even harder to make sure women and men receive the same education rights. Mr. Yousafazai’s explains how society has remained patriarchal throughout history. It has become almost a natural human behavior to honor men over women since men have the capability to do more. Women have always lacked some of the rights men have gotten. He discusses how a mother feels guilty when she gives birth to a daughter instead of a son. The mother feels as if she has let her husband down for not providing a son who can continue to glorify the family once the father has passed. Men are typically associated with strength where as women are claimed to be weak and fragile. In some developing countries women are forbidden to even walk outside without a veil covering their face or without a male escort. Furthermore Ziauddin explains how women are expected to agree to anything their elders ask of them. In many Asian countries the parents of a woman are suppose to plan her entire future with or without her consent. When the daughter gives birth after marriage she continues the faith to teach her daughters of obedience and her sons about honor. So basically this process just continues on and on. In order to break this corrupt cycle we must start thinking differently. We need to associate males and females as one instead of as superior and inferior. Destroy the phrase “fight like a girl” and unite the sexes. He also explains how he changed the patriarchal system in hos own household. He tells the audience that he admitted his daughter in his school despite the controversy. He also encouraged Malala to come with him to his meetings and to disregard the law of obedience. Due to the fact that Mr. Yousafazai pushed Malala to be involved in society it inspired her to help change the world for the better. It was not the fact that Ziauddin had the gift of persuading or mentoring but it was simply because he, did not hold his daughter back from the world he “did not clip her wings”. That’s the message he is trying to spread. Men need to stop holding women back and accept them as their equal because who knows maybe there is a women out there waiting for her chance to change the world just has Malala has done. Similarly, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a short story on the isolation of women called “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The narrator in the story describes the room as, “for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the wall” (The Yellow Wallpaper). The narrator happens to be trapped in this cage like room to remain isolated from society. Her husband is the one who has locked her in this lonely room. Gilman is trying to portray women’s activeness in society. They are usually always held back from opportunities that males more commonly accomplish. Men have trapped women in their houses and have limited their effect on the world. I completely agree with this discussion considering I am a female. In todays society we have definitely come a long way in obtaining rights for women, however there is still that subconscious that tells mankind that there is in fact a superior group between males and females. This has prevented society from completely excreting the idea of sexism. I think men need to start encouraging more women to go out and explore and participate in larger roles instead of locking them in a house and labeling them as fragile pieces who need protection. Once men start motivating women to take on their positions and even vice versa, and then our society can function as one. Obtaining equal rights and the freedom to pursue anything despite gender is merely a part of the American/Global Dream.