This document provides character outlines and setting outlines for an essay on gender wage discrimination. It describes three female characters - Ellen Pao, Peggy Young, and Keri Sleeman - who each faced gender discrimination and wage inequality at their places of employment. It also outlines two relevant settings - a US Supreme Court courtroom and a US Senate committee hearing in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act.

1. Character outlines
Character 1
Name: Ellen Pao
Age: 45
Description: Ellen Pao is a Chinese American woman, with dark
hair. She is of an unspecified medium height
Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination
Ellen Pao worked for Kleiner Perkins at his venture capital
firm; Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers was caught up in a
situation that she explained was as a result of her gender. In the
occurrence, Ellen Pao files a lawsuit against her employer and
the firm, in general, claiming that it has a tendency to practice
gender wage discrimination. In her explanations to the claim,
Pao asserted that the firm had occasionally overlooked her as
potential promotion candidate when she truly deserved it and
instead, a male co-worker ended up getting the promotion.
Further, in her complaint, Pao stated that the firm had a
tendency of paying more attention to ideas that were brought
forward by men than those brought forward by women. She
asserted that women’s ideas were quickly dismissed without any
valid reasons and their men counterparts are promoted more
than them.
In her own situation, Pao said that the firm chose to overlook
her for promotions and she believed was done on the basis of
her gender. Apart from facing a discrimination in being
promoted, Pao further states that she faced a termination form
the firm when she raised the issue of being gender discriminated
during the promotion exercise. It was further revealed that
Kleiner Perkins Caufield &Byers was a film that contained a
number of events that involved the underrepresentation of the
female gender as well as their encounters with work
circumstances in venture capital.
In another situation, as she describes it, Ms. Pao sourced an
investment for the company in a patent trolls designing

2. corporation which earned the firm an initial public offering. Pao
strongly affirmed that her actions were adequately enough to
earn her a promotion. Her employer firm, KCPB, however, did
not give her the credit and would further not include her on the
board of directors. Additionally, it was revealed that at KCPB,
the policies relating the number of investments and seats at the
board of directors was unequally applied comparing men and
women. This clearly expressed the existence of a feature of
gender wage discrimination in the KPCB firm. Pao further
complained that the firm did not acknowledge or appreciate her
efforts in improving the company. She gave a situation where
she proposed a number of potential and beneficial investments
which the firm ignored, only for it to adopt them at a later time.
Pao, therefore, based her complain about the argument that the
firm dismissed the investments because she was a woman and
did not want to acknowledge it to her.
Second Character
Name: Peggy Young
Age: Unspecified, probably in her late thirties
Description: Ms. Peggy Young is tall, from Maryland, with
blond hair color.
Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination
Ms. Peggy Young faced the situation of gender wage
discrimination at her former workplace at UPS. Peggy worked at
UPS as a delivery bus driver and apparently when she was
pregnant, she requested a workload adjustment which was
denied by the company. Ms. Young did not make the request on
her own terms but was following a doctor’s instruction to
reduce her workload during her pregnancy period.
On making the request however, the company did not approve it
but instead chose to put her on a leave that she had not
requested. To make the situation more unfair, MS. Young was
placed on unpaid leave. To defend itself, the company stated
that she could no longer meet the requirements of her job
specification. In her letter the company cited Peggy young no
longer being able to lift the required 70 pounds of load in her

3. line of work.
Following this response, Peggy Young went ahead and filed a
lawsuit against her employer, UPS. Young’s situation was
revealed to be quite an act of gender wage discrimination as the
company was revealed to normally make special
accommodations especially for male workers who presented
health conditions. The Supreme Court ended the case which was
decided in the favor of Peggy Young. The court further stated
that the company needed to make equal adjustments for
pregnant women as it could do for any other worker who
presented a health condition. It insisted that Peggy Young’s
leave would have paid like all other leave, is the company really
had to put her on a leave.
Character 3
Name: Keri Sleeman
Age: Unspecified, probably in her mid-thirties
Description: American, 6 feet tall, stocky body built, white with
blond hair and has brown eyes.
Character’s connection to essay: Gender Wage Discrimination
Keri Sleeman is woman who worked for an engineering
company that was involved in designing, building as well as
installing systems for laser welding. At some point the company
was forced to bankruptcy and all its workers had to report to
court to be awarded their final paychecks by the company. Keri
Sleeman reveals that the company hired her in the year 2003,
gave her the amount of salary she would be receiving and told
her that they did not negotiate salary rates.
At the time of bankruptcy, Ms. Sleeman had worked at the
company for over five years. During the bankruptcy court
process, Ms. Sleeman was shocked to realize that the workers
who she supervised were receiving more claims in a period of
two weeks were far much larger than hers. She describes herself
as having been heartbroken by the situation of looking at the
list of court claims and realize that her juniors at work were
making larger salary claims than her.
Ms. Sleeman testified in a US court in support of the passing of

4. the Paycheck Fairness Act in the year 2014. Sleeman attended
an Access to Justice hearing where she supported the motion of
equal pay for all people. She told her story of unequal pay to
the sitting members in the efforts to get the law passed. She
states that women can on their own not close the gender pay
gap, and therefore the Act was needed as well as policy makers
to enact laws to regulate the practice of oppressing women by
paying them less salaries than their fellow workers.
Setting outlines
Setting 1
Date:March 24, 2016
Place name:United States Supreme Court
Description:A United States Supreme Court courtroom.
Relevance of setting to essay 4 election:The courtroom i s full of
people who are eager to hear the final ruling of the court
regarding the case presented by a complaint against a company
that denied her a workload reduction due to her pregnancy
unlike her fellow employees who would get adjustments due to
health conditions. The people’s feelings are mixed as the
supporters of the complainant want her to win the case, while
the company she is suing wishes to win the lawsuit.
Setting 2
Date:April 1, 2013
Place name:A sitting of the U.S. Senate Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions Committee.
Description: The meeting was held in support of the Paycheck
Fairness Act.
Relevance of setting to essay Gender Wage Discrimination: The
sitting was done to support the law on equality of pay across
genders to stop the discrimination of women in terms of wage
payment by employers.
Why Women Join Terrorist groups
Introduction
Terrorism can generally be referred to as the act of using

5. intentional as well as all-inclusive violence for with the purpose
of gaining politically, religiously or in other cases
ideologically. Terrorism as a crime has been globally described
as violent and additionally as a fourth-generation warfare. Acts
of terrorism are as well considered as against humanity and
have so far been proven to be one of the cruelest acts of
violence in the world. In many of its events, terrorism does not
exclude any individuals but attacks all the people who are
present at the time it is unleashed. In cases where some
individuals are spared at an unleashing of terrorism, they have
been proven to belong to the same side as the terrorists,
politically, religiously or under any other basis they attack.
Although terrorism can be traced back to times before the 1st
century when the Sicarii Zealots assassinated the Roman rule
collaborators, the highest concern in the field is on the modern
terrorism. Terrorism was first used during the Reign of Terror
in the French Revolution. During reign, Jacobins used violence
in order to force the state to obey as well as intimidate the
enemies of the regime. During this time, terrorism adopted the
relation to state violence was used up to around mid-19th
century when some non-governmental groups began to practice
acts that were associated with terrorism. Some of these acts are
what started to characterize the modern day terrorism. Modern
day terrorism has given the field terrorism a number of different
definitions, techniques as well as the people involved in
terrorism. The involvement of women in terrorism is, for
instance, one of the main differences that the modern day
terrorism has made in the field.
Women involvement in terrorism brings up a number of
questions from all over the world. Involving women in acts of
terror can be said to have been witnessed a number of times in
the 19th century, but they have become more common in the
20th and 21st century. A bigger number of these cases of
women engaging in terror activities lies in the 21st century.
Following these incidences, therefore, this paper tries to look
into the issue of the female gender involvement in terrorism. In

6. the effort of studying the topic, the paper indulges in thorough
research of understanding the issue of terrorism. Some aspects
include researching the concept and history of terrorism among
others to give a clear understandi ng of the issue. This type of
understanding will then be used to evaluate the possible reasons
why women would be interested in engaging or to be part of
terrorist activities. It will further engage in establishing the
plight of the women terrorist, the circumstances or aims that
land them to terrorism and how their lives change after
becoming terrorists. The main aim of the paper is however to
establish the different reasons and circumstances that could lead
to having women become part of terrorist groups.
The concept and History of Terrorism
Although terrorism is viewed as a common enemy of any
society in the world, each society or group have their own way
of defining terrorism. There does therefore not exist a single
confirmed definition for terrorism as each tends to define
terrorism based on their own view, experiences or interests. At
times terrorism is defined as the act of violence that is directed
at civilians or people who are not in the combat. Using this
definition, however, brings about some confusions as for how to
classify a number of attacks. The 9/11 attacks can easily be
described as terrorism under this definition, but a question
arises about the Pentagon attacks that were directed towards
military personnel. Was it not terrorism because it was directed
towards combatants? The answer to the question is definitely
no, which further complicates the situation of terrorism.
In other cases, terrorism can be defined as the unlawful
exploitation of non-governmental power against citizens of a
given nation with the aim of intimidating or forcing their
government to react on a specific interest. In defining terrorism
in this way, a question is raised on those interests that are
sought after by government authorities. The question raised

7. could be ‘does violence that is practiced on the interest of the
government, not terrorism’. It is obvious that even government
driven violence is terrorism and a perfect definition is,
therefore, necessary for terrorism.
In giving terrorism a more genuine definition, therefore, it is
clear that it should take care of all the bias that has since
existed in its definition. Some of these biases exist in the
aspects of target groups, commanding groups of terrorism
among others. In attaining neutrality, therefore, terrorism can be
defined as the use of violence with the purpose of achieving a
specific personal interest or with the aim of commanding
support. With this definition, the bias is broken and any act of
violence can be violence and any target population can be
termed to face terror attacks. Additional neutrality to the event
of terrorism is that it does not take into any consideration the
rules regarding war. In a genuine war, actions are limited in
terms of weapons that can be used to attack as well as the
individuals who the armed people can attack. Terrorism does
however not follow these rules into consideration and attacks
everyone at the reach of their terror reign.
Terrorism can be traced to the AD centuries one of which
involved the assassination of the roman rule collaborators down
to the Hashhashin in the 11th – 13th centuries assassinating
Abbasid and Seljuk, to the French revolution during its reign of
terror assassinating the embracers of Roman rule. The list
trickles down to the period of the 20th and 21st century where
incidences of terrorism are uncountable and terror groups are
uncountable as well. Having such a rise of the vice of terrorism
also has its own effects on the societies that are near, or that are
made up of terrorist groups.
Women and Terrorism
In the current societies, the war of gender equality has been one
of the fiercest with all women fighting for a place in the
societies. In the wake of this war, each woman always has their
own and different aim of fighting for gender equality. As a
result of this urge to own a place in the society, women have in

8. the modern societies resolved to do things that men were
previously considered as the only people who can do them.
Engagement in terrorism is one of the contemporary society
activities that women have been recorded to engage in.
Involvement of women in terrorism is not a new term to many
people who have been in countries which are faced by terrorism
and also to people who keep a track of the current issues in the
world. Throughout the history of terrorism, women have been
involved in terrorism in a way. Being involved in terrorism,
women have been part of political violence, all cases of
rebellion in the society, as well as insurgency.
N this part, the paper will look at the available statistics and
information of women who have been involved in terrorism
activities. It will additionally look at the expected change in the
trend of women who are involved in terrorism. Besides the
history of women involvement in terror groups, this part will
additionally look at the possible reasons as to why women
choose or are found in terrorist groups. Researching this part of
the paper gives the different ways in which women find
themselves trapped in the world of terrorism. It will also assist
to establish if women get into terrorist groups willingly or
unwillingly. This study also gives an insight of the possible
ways in which women involvement in terrorism can be reduced.
It will as well be used establish some ways in which women
involvement in terrorism can be exploited by nations to fight
terrorism.
History of Women Involvement in Terrorism
Initially, the role of women in the society whether in violence
or peaceful was simply to give birth to children who were
looked upon to become the future leaders, defenders, and
fighters for their societies. Women as mothers were required to
raise their children as brave soldiers and ideologically steadfast.
In the modern society, however, women involvement in societal
activities has greatly widened. Women are being involved in
political, religious as well as conceptual debates all over the
world. Involvement in these elements of the society does not

9. exclude them in the consequences that come along with them.
Women in present day society are being involved in all the
activities that involve the elements of society in both good and
bad ways. In the bad ways, for instance, women have chosen to
engage in fights regarding all these elements seeking to keep
their place or that of their society. Women participating in
terrorism has mainly emerged in the societies as they are caught
in the middle of their activities and have to engage in what
follows their present situations. Women, therefore, play a more
outlying role in terrorism by being both in the fights or by
supporting the terrorists. They have further joined terrorist
groups and are used to unleash terror attacks.
Involvement of women in terrorism can be for instance recorded
in the Narodnaya Volya women whose willingness to die for the
cause exceeded that of their male counterparts. These women
put themselves in anti-colonial as well as revolutionary
struggles in the Third World for very many years. In the year
1878, Narodnaya Volya’s Vera Zasulich is recorded as the ever
first woman to be tried for accusations related to terrorism in
Tsarist Russia. Vera alongside Masha Kolenkina, another
conspirator in Narodnaya Volya shot Theodore Trepov who was
then St. Petersburg’s governor general. Governor Trepov was,
however, able to survive the assassination and had Vera arrested
and tried for the attempt. She had made the attempt with a
revolver that she had hidden under a shawl. He was bold enough
to stand up for herself and proudly shout that she was a terrorist
and not a murderer. There were as well other women in the
group of Narodnaya Volya and a third of the group’s leadership
was revealed to be composed of women. Vera was celebrated as
a martyr for those oppressed in the society for attempting to
assassinate the governor.
As from the 1960s, women who were witnessed to engage in
terror groups were listed to involve all types including the
Middle East’s nationalist movements and Marxist organization
of Europe. All parts of the world started having female militants
like the Black panthers and Baader Meinhof of Germany, the

10. Red Brigaders of Italy, and Red Army of Japanese among
others. Organizations that involved themselves in fighting for
the rights of women and their equality saw women rise through
and to power and they apparently became leaders of these
groups. These actions were a clear sign that women had started
to fight, defend and at other times grab their position in the
society.
In the years between the 1960s and 70s, women were seen
playing a great role in European groups. In the Baader-Meinhof
of Germany, Ulrike Meinhoff was witnessed to be the founder.
Meinoff was a woman but she managed to come up with a terror
group that had her name as an ideological sign. An analysis
done by Russel and Miller’s study of landmark went ahead to
reveal that approximately 350 terror attacks between the years
1966 and 1976 were conducted by women from the groups of
Red Army Faction and the Brigate Rosse. In the groups,
however, women were revealed as underrepresented as the high
percentages consisted of men and women were as well revealed
to be responsible for a number of secondary roles in the groups.
Other women involved in terrorism groups include Zohra Drif
who was cited by Vera Zasulich as her role model. Zohra Drif
was a woman from Algeria and who was a suicide bomber
during its independence from France in the 1950s. In Russia as
well, women played a big part in the Russia’s revolutionary
movement during the 19th century. These women involvement
in terrorism also featured as a rise of modern terrorism. In more
recent times, women have continued to be implicated as
terrorists like in the provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
Additionally, women have been witnessed to highly have the
ranks of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers. An estimated provided that
women make approximately a third of the total fighters and
additionally make approximately a third of the suicide bombers.
In modern terrorism, women have been witnessed acting as
leftists and nationalists in a number of countries across the
world continents such as Japan, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and the
United States among others. Right wing recruiting of women is

11. often witnessed in Europe, the United States, etc. including the
Ku Klux Klan. Ku Klux Klan chose to recruit women so that
they could assist the men counterparts by reinforcing their
militancy and were as well used to keep men in the group. From
the early 1990s, women were witnessed to have increased their
count in the Islamist and Jihadi groups of terrorism in the
world. They have additionally been witnessed to be highly
involved in political violence and terrorist organizations but
were revealed to be limited by the low willingness of the world
to look at their involvement.
An approximate of 257 suicide attacks during the period
between 1985 and 2010 was revealed to have been conducted by
women and which totals to a quarter of the number of suicide
bombings that occurred during the period. Since the year 2002,
the number of terror operatives who are women has been
approximated to be 50% of the total operatives. Women have
been revealed to kill hundreds of people, including men, fellow
women, and children. Those who survived their attacks are
revealed to have undergone crippling, others have gone blind,
and many other effects from these attacks. Other women
terrorists have tried but failed in their missions and keep
training hoping to succeed in their future missions.
Approximate numbers of women who engage in terrorism are
revealed as having the possibility to increase over the next
years. This increase is made possible by the fact that the
numbers have been increasing for the past five years. Some of
the factors that are responsible for this increase include the rise
of the activity of terror groups such as the Taliban, the Boko
Haram, the Al Shabaab and the continued operation of the Al
Qaeda and ISIS among other major terrorist groups in the world
who have been recruiting women terrorists in large numbers.
These groups made a realization that there were things that
women could do for them and those men could not do which led
to the massive recruitment of women.
Women are mostly described as unseen terrorists as they are
always the least suspected to be able to perform acts of

12. terrorism. Due to this assumption that women are harmless,
women can very easily move closer to terrorism targets with
least suspicion and without being noticed. Currently, women are
revealed to represent more than 15% of bomb attacks in the
period between 1985 and 2006. In terror struck places such as
Chechnya and Sri Lanka, women are as well estimated to make
more that 30 percent of the total members of the fighting forces.
Al-Aqsa martyrs’ brigade was revealed to have at least 300
women who are described as some of the highly trained and
skilled suicide bombers available for the group.
Reasons to women Involvement in Terrorism
There are a number of reasons why women
The desire for inclusion would want to be or would be needed to
become part and parcel or terrorist groups. From the world’s
perspective, it is hard to believe that any woman would want to
become part of a terrorist group. On the other hand, it is equally
unbelievable that any terrorist group would need the
participation of a woman to enable its activities. It is obvious
that any society in the world takes women for a weak and minor
species that is not able to execute any important activities. In
the modern world, however, the way women perceive
themselves, the things they want to achieve and the extents they
are willing to go in order to achieve them is both interesting and
alarming at the same time. Women impress the world by being
aggressive and acquiring themselves a place in the society and
being above me. However, some women get too desperate in the
process and engage in extreme activities to achieve these goals.
It is this aggressiveness that women have developed all over the
world that attracts attention from terror groups which seek to
exploit their skills and aggressiveness. Below are some of the
reasons that contribute to increasing numbers of women in
terrorist groups.
i) The Desire to be Included
Some women choose to engage in terrorism so that they can be a
part of the groups. In many times, the women in some societies
are marginalized to extents that they are not viewed or treated

13. as people who have their rights. Under such treatment, women
tend to feel that they do not have a place to belong and they,
therefore, look for ways to which they can belong to a group
where they feel included. In many times, women who live in
nations with terror groups then chose to become part of then
just to be included somewhere they are recognizable and viewed
as important people.
Women were therefore revealed to seek inclusion in terror
groups. In their own world or societies, women may be viewed
as beautiful, have loving families but do not have anyone who
listens to what they have to say which makes them feel
unaccepted and ignored. When one feels ignored in their
societies, they develop a wish to be far from the society, from a
family and away from the world that they live in. Following this
urge, many women choose the terrorist groups as their potential
solution to the feelings of neglect that they have. In these
groups, they hope to find leaders who need and depend on them
to complete their missions, to make their points and many other
functions they may want the group members to perform.
ii) To overcome Radicalization in the Society
In a notable number of societies, there exist very high levels of
the radicalization of the female gender. Radicalization practices
have the effects of making one feel undermined in their
societies, homes or at their schools. When women are subjected
to radicalization in their societies, they tend to resolve to look
for ways in which they can become part of a group that does not
expose them to such discrimination. If one lives in a country
that has rampant levels of terrorism, they will definitely be
attracted to become part of them so that they may be able to
exercise some power over themselves, some freedom and many
others.
In joining terrorist groups, some women hope to find an
environment that allows them to make points of their life, be
involved in decision making among other activities that
surround them at the terrorist groups. Having to exercise control
over their lives, many women hope to be able to feel more

14. worth, than when they have to sit back and watch as all
decisions are made for them. Women can, therefore, be said to
join terrorist groups in the search for a place where they can be
allowed to live like everyone else around them. They hope to
find the freedom to express themselves as well as to make
decisions for their own lives not under command or supervision.
iii) Passionate Political Commitment
In nations that have political unrest, there are always events of
disagreeing among or between these political groups. In the
event of these political disagreements, the citizens too tend to
get into the disagreement amongst themselves on the basis of
which political group one belongs to. Disagreements between
the political powers of a given country then turn into a political
war, where citizens wage war against each other as they try to
defend their political interest. In this case, many people have
least things they can do for the political group of their liking
when they are normal civilians. It is the push to acquire the
ability to defend one’s political interest that gets some women
to join terrorist groups. In a general understanding, these
women believe that becoming part of a terrorist group will give
them the materials they require such as weapons and the skills
they require to fight or to win the war against other political
interests.
iv) To Meaningless Existences a Purpose
In many terrorist groups, recruitment skills that are highly
persuading are commonly used by the recruiting agents. When
looking to recruit a person, these agents make sure that they
show the person how much he/she can do for the society. In
many cases actually, the recruits present the terrorist groups as
the vigilantes in the terrorist situation who try to help the
victims of war. Persuasion is used to show potential recruits
how much they have the power to change the situation of the
suffering war victims if they join the group. They are told of
being able to give existence that is meaningless some purpose
by becoming part of the group and offering their services and
skills to help the people. Women, in this case, are lured by

15. being promised to be given the chance to show love and care to
these victims, help families in different ways, and the list
continues. It is at this point of feeling useful at some place,
more than you are at your current place that pulls women into
terrorist groups. Contrary to joining terrorist groups, they think
that they get themselves in a line to help desperate victims of
war. They are lured to respond to a situation involving a call to
participate in building the state and construct a new nation that
is peaceful pro them and for everyone else in the globe.
v) Financial Reasons
Financial problems and constraints can be termed as one of the
most common challenges that many people in the world face.
Countries that face terrorism tend to have some of the high
levels of financial problems recorded. When seeking to recruit
new members terrorist groups tend to lure people both men and
women by promising them a fully-provided-for life that will not
cost them a single cent. Following promises like these, being
promised paid rent, bills and provided meals, many people find
the offer quite pleasing. It is therefore due to this persuasion
and line of promises that get many numbers of women to agree
into joining terrorist groups. The aims might be different, to
provide for one’s family, for oneself or what other needs they
might have but at the end of the day, many of the women seek
financial provision from the terrorist groups that they join.
vi) For safety Purposes
Security is one of the most valued needs of any given human
being. In their respective societies, women may feel unsafe at
times because of the fact that they are an inferior species. Many
women feel threatened by men in their societies and in some
common cases, they happen to be oppressed or mistreated by
men. When terrorist groups give women the chance to become
part of them, they promise to protect them and to give them the
power to protect themselves as well. Being offered power to
protect oneself is one of the greatest gifts that a woman cannot
afford to turn down and this leads many women to join terrorist
groups. It can, therefore, be said that women join terrorist

16. groups in the search for protection as well as the power to
protect and defend themselves.
Ways to Prevent Women from Joining Terrorist Groups
Governments, the society, parents and close people could use
some ways to ensure that the level of female terrorists in their
societies is greatly reduced. By making the efforts to decrease
the level of women terrorists the rates of recruitment would at
least reduce even if not end it all at once. With a combination of
efforts from family, the society and mostly from the
government, women who feel like joining terrorist groups could
be persuaded otherwise by the mentioned groups and given
alternative solutions for their complaints.
The governments could, for example, create awareness all over
the world to make people aware of the involvement of women in
the field of terrorism. When awareness is made concerning the
issue of women terrorism, it makes the world more ready to face
the situation whenever it arises. Besides providing increased
readiness to deal with women joining terrorism, creating
awareness of the issue makes the world aware that it exists and
gives it a chance to sit back and take a clearer look at the
matter, as well as weight all its possibilities. Being able to view
women as possible terrorists gives the society an earlier chance
to detect women terrorists which in turn works for the society
by reducing the number of successful terrorist attempts by
women. Placing women at the same level as men in terrorism
deprives them the chances of slipping into places unnoticed as
they do in the present day.
In addition to creating awareness governments and the
concerned authorities should make sure that they engage their
powers in making hard lives for terrorists. Enough investigation
should be done to establish the sources of money for terrorist
groups. On establishing these funding sources, authorities could
restrict their activities with the aim of suppressing the financial
ability of the groups which in turn tends to destabilize their
activities. When terrorists do not have enough financial ability

17. to fund their activities, it becomes quite hard to finance their
attacks as they cannot purchase weapons or the materials needed
to make the weapons. Enough research into terrorist groups is
simply the key to establishing their activities and using the
findings to go against them. With little financial ability, the
groups will have little recruiting power and therefore the
number of women that they recruit will also reduce.
Educating the society openly on the issue of women terrorists
gives the members a high level of awareness on the matter and a
clarification of all the myths that exist on the same. When many
women are lured into terrorist groups with promises of being
given good lives and the amount of freedom, power, and money
that they want, women feel that the terrorist groups are the only
place where their problems can be solved with much ease. In
many of the occasions, women are presented with these
persuasions and they are mostly lies to just get them to join the
groups. Making them aware that terrorists only intend to use
them for their own interests would make women see joining
terrorist groups in a way that they currently are not able to
figure out on their own. Making women in the society aware of
the deceit that exists in the field of terrorism, would make them
be more hesitant in joining these groups which in return works
for the governments to reduce their recruitment levels in
terrorist gangs.
Conclusion
It is highly clear that terrorism has undergone a great
transformation in the modern society on of the biggest being the
inclusion of women in terrorism activities. Although women
have involved themselves with terrorism activities for as long as
terrorism has existed, they did not participate as actively in the
past centuries as in the present day. With this change, it is
implied that a lot of development is taking place in the field of
terrorism like in any other field of the world. Technological
development, development of track covering techniques, as well
as techniques to access unauthorized places have been increased
by terrorists. With the challenge that terrorists pose to the

18. nations increased, the nations should as well establish ways to
use their developments to conquer terrorism as well. By
upgrading the technology used to detect terrorism as well as
upgrading the measures used to fight terrorism, governments
would stand the highest chances of stopping terrorism.
Governments should also engage in technology advancement to
fight the technology that is used by terrorists. By upgrading
communication detection devices, increasing the sensing ability
of bomb detecting equipment and many others would help the
terrorism hit nations to be able to detect possible terrorist
threats. By increasing the level of surveillance on important
governmental buildings the level of access by unauthorized
personnel is greatly reduced as well as the possibility of
successful terrorism attempts. It is, therefore, the call of each
government in the world to increase as well as upgrade the level
of technology as well as increase the number of techniques
available for use in fighting terrorism.
Women could, for instance, be used to participate in fighting
terrorism the same way they are being used to perform terrorist
attacks. In the modern day terrorism, women have been
incorporated into terrorism at almost the same level as men.
With this development, therefore, the government could make
use of women as well to stop terrorism activities. By launching
a plan to use women to fight against terrorism, the governments
will be engaging in using the strongest weapon of terrorist
groups against themselves. Using women for infiltration of
terrorist groups would work a greater deal than when using men
because even though women are incorporated in terrorism, they
are still viewed as their inferior species. Being viewed as an
inferior species can be used as a weapon and a weakness, as
well as not many terrorist groups, would think of a woman as
being used to infiltrate them, the same way they expect them to
creep into terrorist attacks without much suspicion.

19. References
Aven, T. and Guikema, S., 2015. On the Concept and Definition
of Terrorism Risk. Risk Analysis, 35(12), pp.2162-2171.