Saturday, October 3, 2015

GIN talk

We had a GIN talk about gender equality last week. It was covering the basics and didn't really apply to all the students at ISK. He came from a very Indian traditional culture, where women don't eat in the same room as men and they are very restricted in all the things they do. I think the students from ISK is very far from that stage. Even if we all are different, it seems that our families has adopted a much more "modern" way in our views of gender equality. I know that there still is a long way to go in terms of achieving total gender equality, but I think we have come so much further than the lecturers culture. The one valuable point he made about life in Kenya, was that women still can't go out alone in terms of safety. I think that is really sad, the risk of being robbed and raped in Kenya is still very high. This is really unfair, that generally men have more freedom and can do more things than females.

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