Women Around The World: Cultural Event

On Friday May 2^nd I went to the discussion called “Women Around the World”. It was held in a small room in the BMU. The five speakers were all women studying here at Chico State and they were all from various backgrounds. Their names were Susana from Costa Rica, Vanita from India, Shuting from China, Montoko from Japan, and Khylood from Saudi Arabia. It was very cool to see that we had a very diverse group of students that were actually from different countries here at Chico State.

One of the things I got from this discussion was that women in other countries seem to have a different mentality towards their education than a good majority of the women here in the U.S. Not to say that women here are not as smart or anything, but I think it is because women here have more opportunity and more freedom of choice to do what they want to and they are already established in our society. The panelist talked about how schools were segregated by gender and that makes it harder for them to do what they want. But when they get the opportunity to make it they take it.

Vanita from India talked about how there were many women trying to be engineers in India. That was very surprising to me as a former engineering student and now as a construction management because I’m lucky to have one or even two girls in any one of my classes.

So in general what I took out of this discussion was that women in other countries had the knowledge and education to be great. But the gender inequality of these countries does not let them make of themselves what they are capable of being.