Event- meeting for IWiN (International Women in Need)
Place-The Women’s Center
Time-Monday, December 3rd 7:00
This event was an informational meeting about IWiN. It was about this year’s project in which VT and its community will be helping to raise money for the women in a village in Kenya. This money will go towards a power mill that can grind corn mechanically. The women of Kenya are not appreciated at all and have to depend on the males. Therefore, their lives are very hard. Getting this mill will help the women make some money and make them more independent.
The connections that this event/meeting has with this course is how we are looking and trying to help less fortunate women. This whole course has been about gender equality and informing us about the problems that there are in our society today. This is just one of the few, and it is giving us an opportunity to help out.
I believe that the information given during this meeting makes you really realize how bad these issues are in other countries. I believe that giving money to this cause is a great investment. Not only will it immediately help out, but it will also set the stage for many years to come and continue to help this country by building a good source of jobs for generations to come.
Monday, December 3, 2007
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Event- Through Feminist Eyes
Dr. Ilja Luciak
Place- 223 Engel Hall
Time- Tuesday, November 27th 7:00
This event was a presentation by Dr. Ilja Luciak who is a professor and the Chair of Political Science here at Virginia Tech. He studied in Vienna and holds a Ph. D. from the University of Iowa. He has been in Latin America for many years studying the society there and focused on gender equality. He has written two books from his travels. His studies found that women in Latin America are not appreciated and do not have equal rights or they are not allowed to hold leadership roles. Therefore this problem will not change unless there are women in those high up positions.
The connection this event has to our course is that the information that Dr. Ilja Luciak presented was information about how women do not have equal rights in Latin America and Cuba. This information is just one lecture of many about countries who still have very big gender inequality.
This lecture is another very good informational session in which people are being educated about our society and how, contrary to popular belief, women are still not treated the same as men in many places. I am glad I attended this event and feel that I have learned more about the problems in our world today.
Dr. Ilja Luciak
Place- 223 Engel Hall
Time- Tuesday, November 27th 7:00
This event was a presentation by Dr. Ilja Luciak who is a professor and the Chair of Political Science here at Virginia Tech. He studied in Vienna and holds a Ph. D. from the University of Iowa. He has been in Latin America for many years studying the society there and focused on gender equality. He has written two books from his travels. His studies found that women in Latin America are not appreciated and do not have equal rights or they are not allowed to hold leadership roles. Therefore this problem will not change unless there are women in those high up positions.
The connection this event has to our course is that the information that Dr. Ilja Luciak presented was information about how women do not have equal rights in Latin America and Cuba. This information is just one lecture of many about countries who still have very big gender inequality.
This lecture is another very good informational session in which people are being educated about our society and how, contrary to popular belief, women are still not treated the same as men in many places. I am glad I attended this event and feel that I have learned more about the problems in our world today.
CRJ #11
CRJ #11
After reading the last chapter and completing this class, my views on feminists are very different from when I first started. I now know that a feminist is a female who wants equal rights for all genders, men and women alike. This equality ranges from sexual equality to voting equality and equality in the work force to amount of salary. A profeminist man is a male who agrees with making equal rights for women and supports the laws and acts that are made to ensure that all genders are treated the same in every aspect of society. After studying more into these issues and getting more facts, I would label myself as a feminist, because I believe that everyone should be treated as an equal no matter what the gender.
I believe that being in this class has made an impact on me because it informed me more about problems in our society having to do with gender equality. Though in this country gender equality isn’t as big of an issue, there are still some problems that many people do not know about. Then there are other countries in which genders are certainly not treated the same at all, and it is obvious. It is sad to hear about some of the things that go on in other countries that I feel, if more people were educated about it, it could get fixed. Not only is being educated what is needed to change laws and countries, but it is also what is needed to change some peoples’ views of whether or not they are a feminist and what a feminist really is, like how it did with me.
The things I will take away from this are the bits of information in which I can spread the word as to what is actually happening in this world having to do with gender inequality. None of the topics relate to my major but I am certainly glad I took this class because I think the information that I learned is very valuable.
After reading the last chapter and completing this class, my views on feminists are very different from when I first started. I now know that a feminist is a female who wants equal rights for all genders, men and women alike. This equality ranges from sexual equality to voting equality and equality in the work force to amount of salary. A profeminist man is a male who agrees with making equal rights for women and supports the laws and acts that are made to ensure that all genders are treated the same in every aspect of society. After studying more into these issues and getting more facts, I would label myself as a feminist, because I believe that everyone should be treated as an equal no matter what the gender.
I believe that being in this class has made an impact on me because it informed me more about problems in our society having to do with gender equality. Though in this country gender equality isn’t as big of an issue, there are still some problems that many people do not know about. Then there are other countries in which genders are certainly not treated the same at all, and it is obvious. It is sad to hear about some of the things that go on in other countries that I feel, if more people were educated about it, it could get fixed. Not only is being educated what is needed to change laws and countries, but it is also what is needed to change some peoples’ views of whether or not they are a feminist and what a feminist really is, like how it did with me.
The things I will take away from this are the bits of information in which I can spread the word as to what is actually happening in this world having to do with gender inequality. None of the topics relate to my major but I am certainly glad I took this class because I think the information that I learned is very valuable.
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