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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.