Kelli Mack/ March 20, 2008/ 6:33 pm/ Gender Issues
In Botswana, the director of women's affairs department has emphasized the need to sensitize the community leaders on gender development issues. She spoke at a two day conference for several African countries. The hope for the workshop is that it would help leaders understand and appreciate the issues of gender development in the community. She noted that at the womens conference in Beijing in 1995 was meant to help sensitize and remove obstacles that discriminate women in several different areas. She also advised men to recognize and respect their female equals and treat them in an equal manner. She believes that women should be involved in decision making and have an equal role and responsibility on related issues of gender. She believes there is a need to have a creative balance between men and women on many issues. She feels that women have long been isolated from decision making roles and especially in the areas of armed conflict. She also spoke out against discrimination from rules in the country and that men should ignore these rules to avoid discrimination.
I think it is a really good thing that people are speaking out against discrimination of women at the highest level. Women should not be left out of decision making processes and should not be left out of armed conflict. From all the articles I have read, I have found that women are really starting to speak out against discrimination and isolation from decision making processes.
http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20080320&i=Dept_engages_community_leaders_on_gender_issues
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I took a class last year that focused on the feminist movement and how long it's taken women to gain equal rights. And still now some people would say almost equal opportunites. In the US we take for granted that our voices will be heard and we have a say in what happens to our bodies, families, and communities. Women is other parts of the world don't have that freedom and are taught to be submissive or obedient. I think it is great this woman is standing up for equal representation in a male dominated international government.
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