Gender Studies

Hey peeps, i've been hooked on this book called "My Separate Ways" by Bell and Nkomo. It's all about Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity.

I think it's really a poignant viewpoint of how the fates of black and white women entwined with each other. Gender inequalities seems to be what's focused on this topic about gender studies. As where sex is concerned, i think there's alot of differences between both sexes when you talk about society today.

Unfair treatment towards women, not just black and white, but im talking more about asian women too. Look at how hordes of asian women get trafficked and prostituted in the streets of countries like Bangkok. There is just not enough education opportunities provided for asian women in such countries. I think the government should provide more talks and seminars for the women race not just to tell how they should improve their lives, but also get moving on how much they can have in their pockets. Educate them! This cannot be the only mode of how these women in these countries can make money.

I believe women of the new century and society do have minds of their own, and they do need this. It's not just this. I believe men do sometimes belittle women and some womenfolk tend to have a self-fulfilling prophecy, which, if i may suggest, is "contagious".

Quoting Linda Butler in the book, it's very encouraging and brave of her to stand up for her own rights, and she's not being cynical about it. She's just taking rights into her own hands, and for that matter, deserved to be credited for her resistance to objections of women in higher positions in their careers.

This resistance to the notion of discrimination shaped the way white women confronted the barriers they encountered. As Linda Bulter told us "I guess i just accepted that that's how it was, and it was up to me to change perceptions of women and what we could do." Linda have proven more than once, often by just demanding more of herself. The only women at the senior level of a large utility company, she comments, "I don't want them to say,"Look, a woman can't handle it-that's what happens when you put her into a position of power." - Quoted from pp.170 Flashpoints, Our Separate Ways

So i think Singapore should step up too for the recent AWARE incident, that it's definitely good to see women getting the same fair share as what they should have in the beginning. What men can do, women can do it too, and i strongly believe that this notion should always be taught in the education system of tomorrow.