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The around the world presentations were very interesting to learn about, and fun to make! I picked New Zealand to do my presentation over (not even knowing where the country was) and I learned a lot of interesting facts about it. By listening to others present gender equality issues in their country, I found that a lot of other countries have it a lot worse than the US does.
ReplyDeleteKenya was probably one of the countries that had the most issues with gender equality and other things. It was very hard to listen to Jessi explain how much violence there is against women in this country. She said women could be burned, scaled with water, have bones broken, and be sexually abused. She stated that currently, a little under half of the women from this country have experienced some type of violence from their husband and this will likely continue because of lack of law enforcement.
One of the more gender equal countries was Russia. Katie stated that everything was very equal among the two genders. Instead of women doing housework, everyone in the family must do their part. The only negative aspect of this country is that it has a very homophobic society. There are protective laws but there is still violence and persecutions which make men hide their gay identity.
In conclusion, not one of the countries that were presented had complete equality among the genders. Some countries were better than others but they all had their issues. I see now that the US really complains about women having unequal rights, but if I were to rank our country over the others presented, I would say that American women have a lot more rights than any other country. We could have it a lot worse.
I really enjoyed listening to everyone's around the world presentations! It was very interesting to hear the differences, and especially the similarities, between countries that I previously considered to be very different from one another. While I knew that women in Kenya were subject to much worse living conditions than we are in America, as I did my research I was shocked to discover the extent to which many Kenyan women are abused. While most women in most countries experience a significant employment/wage gap, I believe the women in Kenya suffer a great deal more than those in other countries. One thing that surprised me was when Katie said that Russia's population is actually majority female. I think of Russia as being a very "macho" society, so I found that very interesting. I noticed something that was common throughout the majority of the countries presented was the treatment of members of the LGBTQ community. While I expected their treatment to be poorer in countries such as Pakistan, I was unaware that their treatment is such a large issue in Jamaica. As a country where men and women are treated relatively equal, I expected them to be more accepting homosexuality, however that's not the case. Not only is it taboo to be a homosexual in Jamica, it is not uncommon for someone to be killed because of their sexuality. It is very easy for us to focus on our own problems in America, however I believe it is equally important for us to try and help those struggling in outside of our borders. These presentations really opened my eyes to some of the larger issues people experience in other countries.
ReplyDeleteThe Around the World presentations, including my own, really opened my eyes to the way a lot of women are treated in other countries. Some made me feel thankful and some made me feel that as women we should be treated better in the United States. The majority of these countries are terrible to live in if you are a woman because of the discriminations against women, such as in India, women who become pregnant with a female child will abort the baby just because the baby is a girl or they will abandon the baby girl after she is born. Eventually all of the men will be fighting over women because there will be a shortage if this continues. In France, the big debate right now, regarding gender, is making the whole french language, which is based on gender, more gender neutral. I think we are seeing this more in the U.S. as well, such as parents giving their children more gender neutral names and dressing them in more gender neutral clothes. A majority of the countries also hold traditional views of the man as the typical breadwinner of the family and the woman at home taking care of the kids, cleaning, and cooking. But, Jamaica is one of the countries that really was a change in a different direction, regarding the way in which women are treated. They are respected, thought to be smarter, and dominate, which is a lot different from all of these other countries. At the same time, this country is the sixth most homophobic in the world and they are pretty brutal towards gay people. In Norway, they require men to take a paternity leave which I believe is important. A baby should have both parents to bond with at the first part of their life. This also changed the men's view of gender after they did take a paternity leave. But, there is also a problem of rape within marriage in this country because it’s not criminalized. The labor force gap is a gender issue that a lot of these countries are facing as well. In Egypt, this gap is huge as 76% of men are working, while 29% of women are working out of the whole population. New Zealand is making progress because traditional views are slowly fading away and there are laws against gender discrimination. There is a terrible rule in Pakistan that really stood out to me and this was that if a man believes that a woman has dishonored him, they can kill that woman in an honor killing. I can’t imagine being a woman in a country like some of these that were presented. This is terrible and my hope is that these countries can make progress towards the equality for women.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed learning about all the countries that were presented on the last several weeks but some countries stood out more than others. The four countries that stood out negatively were India, Jamaica, China and Pakistan. In India, discrimination against women in apparent and disheartening. I was also surprised about selective abortions and the murdering and abandonment of female babies. This is so terrible and I cannot imagine having to go through something like that as a mother. Also, girls in India usually stop going to school around 14 to learn chores and to protect their virginity. So sad that you have to stop educating yourself in order to protect yourself.
ReplyDeleteAnother super shocking statistic was that Jamaica is the 6th most homophobic country in the world. Same sex sexual activity between men is criminalized. The law forbids all forms of intimacy between men, even in private. This is concerning because who does it affect when they're in private. Absolutely no one so this seems ridiculous to me. It also blows my mind that homophobia is taught in school. It was truly eye opening to hear this about Jamaica.
The domestic violence in China and Pakistan was surprising to me. In both countries, men are dominant and the women are subordinate. This fact was prevalent in more countries than I would have thought. I had not realized it was as common as it is in foreign countries.
The 3 countries that were decent about women and their roles were France, New Zealand and Canada. In France, there is even a Minister of Gender Equality. In New Zealand, women were seen as sacred due to child bearing which is the way it should be. Women should be respected for their role of child bearing and mothering. It is one of the hardest things to do in this world. It is very enjoyable and rewarding but very, very difficult at times.
All in all, I enjoyed listening and learning new concepts about countries that I had no previous knowledge of.
I enjoyed listening and learning about the culture differences and similarities between all the different countries in the around the world presentations. It was interesting to hear that in most of the researched countries the women were almost all treated them same, low pay wage from men, have certain views that only women participated in. In India, if a woman was pregnant with a female baby than she will abort the baby, because female babies are more of a financial burden and males are less likely to be a finical burden. If this issue continues, then there will be less women to have male babies there will be a gender shortage. In China, there is a similar role of gender issues. China holds a one child policy, meaning that if the child is a male than they will carry the family name where as if the baby is a female it will result in child abandonment. Another major similarities within all the countries that were presented were they all had a major gender pay wage gap. In Austria, it was 23% of a wage gap. In Norway, the gender pay wage gap is 8.1% difference. In France, the wage pay gap is 12% of a difference. These presentations really showed everyone that there are larger issues in the world that what we are facing.
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I enjoyed learning about the different cultures around the world. I was surprised at how many countries were different, but I was still able to see a lot of similarities in them. I knew a lot of countries were very gender based (men being the dominate sex) but I did not know how many countries did not like the Gay,Bi,Lesbian,Transgender (GBLT) individuals. This was a surprise to me at how poorly these people are treated especially in Russia or Jamaica. They are beaten in the streets nearly to death because they like the same sex. I was also astonished to hear about how women are portrayed in different countries. A lot of countries continue to practice the traditional gender roles how men are the provider and women take care of the kids and the house. I was still stun though to learn that their were not very many laws protecting women's rights. India, for example if a women is raped and gets pregnant by their rapist the male can marry her and he will not get in trouble for raping her and she has no say if she want to marry her rapist or not. Rape is a big issue in indie because their is a gender differences between the women and male. Not being enough women because parents do not want to pay for the wedding, so this leads to a lot of rape cases in India. I was not shocked at the pay gap difference in the different countries because I know here in america that is a industrialized country and is more advanced than most have a pay gap between men and women. I did like to learn how Jamaica sees their women as complete equals.
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Learning about the current equality levels of all the different countries that were presented was interesting. I found it very interesting that some had similar stances as far as women equality, yet were still very independent in their own ways. I was shocked that quite a few countries were still so far behind where we stand as a country. For instance, Kenyan women are required to have a male’s approval before getting a passport and that the father automatically gets custody in a divorce case and then there is the inequality of a man not being charged for adultery and the woman being required to have FOUR male witnesses in such an event. For Egypt, they value the male over the female in the culture overall because women are less likely to be hired and yet if they are, they see so many forms of harassment and discriminations towards them. Despite all this inequality, I was happy to see that there are a few countries that value a more ideal environment of equality amongst all their citizens. Germany is an example of one of those countries. They strive for perfection…which could also be a bad thing in the future, however shows progress amongst their education and wage gap.
ReplyDeleteThe around the world presentations were very informative. Not only did I find them to be informative, I found them to be eye opening. Everyone did a very great job on expressing the facts that i would not have know about any of the countries. Some information that I learned was, in India, they have selective abortions and they mostly murder female babies. France is trying to become gender neutral by using less masculine names. In Hungary men still make more money than females. Jamaica, however, really opened my eyes. In Jamaica the men and women are pretty equal. But the main issue is homophobia which is, being afraid of the same sex. It is criminalized and is the 6th most in the world. In China, your social roles are found within your relationships. The government of Brazil is held the same as the United States. We each have executive, legislative, and judicial branches and a president and vice president. Something i found interesting about Austria is that women work mostly part-time in the workplace just because they want to have families. Norway was very unique, it was third out of all the countries fro equality however, they were second they year before so they wend down over a year. In Mexico the problems were, missing people, dirty police force, military abuse and gangs. In Kenya it is okay for the men to beat their wife up in the house when they are married. In Egypt they value educating men over women and 90% believe men should get the last say in situations. New Zealand still discriminates against LGBTQ but they are able to adopt kids. Pakistani like to seclude women by clothing, screens and curtains. I thought Haiti was very interesting because Yasmine presented on it and she is from there. The gender roles in Belize are laid back. Somalia just had their first woman taxi driver and the males refuse to ride with her. In Germany everyone is very particular on everything and they have a huge pay gap. In the Philippines pay is not hourly it is daily and it is not sure that you will even get paid. Lastly in Cuba 70% of professionals are women. This is everything that I found to be interesting from the around the world presentations.
ReplyDeleteThe Around The World presentations were very informative. Most of the countries had similarities, but there was also differences. For instance India and Kenya both have domestic violence issues and that is a very big problem in both of those countries. Both Brazil and Mexico had the Men dominating the country and it is called Machismo which was interesting to me because I did not know there was a name for it. Another thing that I found interesting from the presentations is that in Norway rape within marriage is not criminalized and that it is acceptable. Also Canada had a lot of bills and laws that were passed. I never knew that there was so many. One thing that I enjoyed was that Russia believes that everything has to be family oriented. In China, your social roles are based on your your relationships. However another thing that stuck out to me was Jamaica. Homophobia is a big issue and it is not allowed. 47% of Jamaicans would kick their children out of their own homes if they were gay. Another thing about Jamaica is that many of the songs are based on the issue of homophobia. Overall the Around The World presentations were very beneficial and informative.
ReplyDeleteThe around the world presentations taught me a lot about little bits and pieces that I thought I already knew about. It was interesting to see how different countries had their own issues but gender struggles and inequality is kind of a common theme in a lot of the countries that were presented. The presentation on Mexico was interesting but I wasn’t aware how Americanized the county was. I always knew America influenced Mexico but not to that extent, and their gender roles were not surprising to me because I know a lot of people of Mexican descent and they kind of still live according to those gender roles. Th presentation on Haiti was my favorite because she did more than just talk about the gender differences, she brought in cultural aspects like food and music. Each presentation on each country was unique because each country is unique. There were a lot of similarities among countries in similar areas or continents, but it was interesting to see how a little distance can differentiate two places as much as it does. One big thing that also surprised me that was similar among some countries was the value of boys and the dis-value of girls. I didn’t think that parents still gave up or killed off female babies, and the effects of it amazes me because they see how what they’re doing is negatively affecting the economy and the country as a whole, but they still refuse to make a change.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to hear all the similarities and differences between the countries. It was crazy to see that most countries do have their own gender issues, both countries seen as more powerful and well developed and smaller less powerful countires. One issue that seemed to be similar in almost every country was the gender pay gap. In almost every country (maybe all?) men made more money than women and women were seen as the caregiver who should be the typical house wife. There were some interesting specific facts for certain countries that caught my attention. In India, sometimes selective abortions happen, which means the murdering or abandoning of female babies. In Jamaica homosexual people are seen as awful beings, even demon like, so if you kill them oh well it happens. In Haiti, there was 200,000 children out of school and many of them do child labor. In Somalia men and women are not allowed to touch each other. In Cuba, I was surprised to see how much women dominate work and school. More than 70% of professionals are women, and 80% of college students are women. In Brazil, Dandara dos Santos was a transgender woman who was murdered.
ReplyDeleteI found all the Around the World presentations to be very interesting and informative. I thought it was interesting that there is some form of inequality in every country we discussed. Some forms of inequality are more severe than others, such as in Jamaica, India, and Kenya, where violence and discrimination against women and LGBTQ is rampant. In countries like Canada and France, where gender issues are considerably less violent, there was still inequality. This shows that everywhere in the world there will be some kind of gender issue. Even in Norway, which in #3 in the world for gender equality, there were still some issues, like no penalty or laws against marital rape. I also thought it was interesting that a few countries were making progressive steps towards gender equality. For example, in Cuba, Maria Castro is backing the movement for gay rights and aiding change. And in Germany and New Zealand gay rights were recently legalized and protected, and they both seem to be moving towards more gender equality in the future. Overall, I thought the presentations were very interesting and fun, and it helped me better understand how the United States compares to the rest of the world.
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I thought that the around the world presentations were really interesting and very informative. There were a lot of differences between the countries, but there were similarities also. One thing that I saw in most countries was that there was a pay gap between men and women, how there is an education gap, and how in most countries men are the dominate sex. Something that I found pretty cool was that most countries we learned about have legalized same sex relationships, but there are also a lot of countries that do not agree with it and if they see same sex relationships, the people are beaten or even killed, like in Jamaica or Russia. A lot of these countries are terrible to live in if you are a woman because of all of the discrimination. An example is in India, women who become pregnant with a female baby will have to abort the baby just because the baby is a girl or they will abandon her. One of the countries that have somewhat gender equality is France because their Minister is female and their cabinet is gender neutral. Overall I really enjoyed learning about the different countries and what happens to people there because eventually I want to travel with my job so now I know information about different countries.
ReplyDeleteI thought the around the world presentations were very interesting and good. It was a lot of fun learning about different countries when it came to gender issues. It kind of opened my eyes to issues that I didn’t know were a huge problem. Some of the countries are not equal at all and have a lot of abuse towards women. Some other countries have gotten better about this issue but there's still inequality. An example would be the country that puts women on a pedestal. I kind of expected that with some of the countries. Not every country is perfect when it comes to gender issues. No country is perfect when it comes to this issue. I’m glad that some countries are taking steps to making it more equal. I also had a lot of fun making my presentation. It was fun learning about France even though it was hard to find a lot of information about it. There wasn’t a lot of information about men’s roles in France or major gender issues in France. I just found a lot of stuff about how they're making progress towards inequality. It's a good thing though and i’m glad that they're making progress.
ReplyDeleteThe around the world presentations was a great way to be informed of how different countries address the same issues that we face as Americans. I chose Belize as I know someone who lives and works there and could give firsthand info on some aspects that are common to Belize citizens. With Belize and a lot of other countries I think I was surprised at how the overall treatment of women was still so poor. In Belize only one woman had been apart of anything political. Until recently it was illegal to be gay or lesbian. In some of the other countries that were presented these themes seemed to stand out. Jamaica was similar to Belize in its treatment of the LGBT community. Belize's recent change in its laws regarding this, many felt would help other Central America countries to follow in its footsteps and allow equality for gay and lesbians.Time will tell.
ReplyDeleteCountries I thought would be more liberal were even more restrictive in the freedom they allowed. I had no idea selective abortion was something that India still practiced.The amount of violence against women was surprising as well in Kenya.Listening to the presentations about countries that allowed these things to happen was disappointing but made me grateful for the many freedoms we have in America.Educating ourselves on these different aspects of other countries is how change comes about.From my study on Belize I know that various organizations are working toward more women in the workplace, education for women etc.I understand how it can be a long and challenging process, but a necessary one, so that every individual can hopefully have equal rights.
I loved having the opportunity to not only research my country of choice to get an in-depth look at their culture and gender issues, but also getting to learn about other countries as well. I believe that it is important for us as humans to enrich ourselves with the cultures of other humans in order to expand our minds and truly understand situations other than our own. I was surprised by how many countries were so similar to America, but also by how severely unequal women were in some places. India, for example, still practices "selective abortion" by aborting babies just because they are female, sometimes whether the mother wants it or not. I had also never realized how ahead of the times America is regarding the LGBT community until I learned of how strict and unwelcoming other communities were, such as Russia and Jamaica. Another thing that also really resonated with me was how family oriented many other countries were. They value family over everything and that is one value that I wish could be more universal here in America. All in all, I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in such an enlightening learning experience.
ReplyDeleteThis was such a cool experience to be apart of. I really enjoyed getting to research my country then getting to hear about all these other different countries. I feel like I learned so much more doing it this way then if did a normal class setting. I learned so much relevant information to todays world and the things going on around me. Some big issues I noticed about multiple countries around the world is that women rights is still a huge problem in our modern society. Even worse then the women's rights is the LGBTQ rights around the world. Some countries that really stuck out to me is Somalia and how the women manage their finances. However, it is terrible that that 45.3% of women marry before their 18. That means that children are getting forced to marry. Another country that had some interesting information was Germany. The ruled that there must be a third sex option on legal documents for intersex children. Next I thought it was so interesting that Cuba has 2/3 of lawyers are women thats a large percent. Also that 80% of all collage student are women. Those are just a few of the countries that extra stuck out to me. But there were so many other countries that super interesting facts and curtail norms but its just to much to talk about.
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I really enjoyed listening to everyone and learning so much about all these countries that I didn’t know about. It was so informative and surprising at times, too. I am also glad I got to do Brazil and to find out a lot about their culture. I also learned how lucky that I am able to live in the United States, for some of these other countries don’t have the freedom like we do over here. I would like to add some positive and negative things that I found out. I couldn’t believe how many countries had really bad domestic violence over there. For example, Brazil had one of the worst I thought, next to Kenya. In fact, Kenya has it the worst and that was one of their biggest issues. I was shocked to hear that over in Kenya they can marry as early as 9 over there. I can’t even fathom that, since they are still little children. I also noticed that a lot of countries have issues with LGBT and they are not for it so much. That was a big issue in Brazil. I know in Jamaica it is not allowed over there and their biggest issue is Homophobia. I also noticed that in a lot of these countries, the male role model is known as the “macho” guy. I heard that being mentioned quite a bit. The one thing that really stood out for me were the issues of abandoning and killing infants over in India, which really shocked me. There really is a lot more restrictions in other countries than here in the United States. The one thing I thought we had in common were the gender roles and inequality. That was probably the biggest thing. I do remember that we are probably the only country that doesn’t give maternity leave for the Dad’s, so I found that quite interesting. I could actually go on and on since there are more similarities and differences, but those are probably the most that stood out to me. I can say that I’m happy living here in America.
ReplyDeleteIt was very interesting learning about all the gender issues and LGBTQ issues that there are around the world. I can’t believe so many countries still have huge pay gaps between men and women! Jamaica really has some stuff to change. I had no idea gay people are killed and people support that in Jamaica. Doing my presentation on India I really learned a lot about that country. China was the most surprising to me! The gender gap that they have is ginormous. Being a girl in China affects them throughout their whole life to not be aborted or killed the second they are born is already a miracle. I had no idea. And that is what scares me the most. All of these bad things are happening to people and we have little to no idea they are happening. Awareness is the number one factor for change.
ReplyDeleteI like that we got to learn about so many countries and get so many perspectives. And the countries that offer maternity leave for dads was awesome!! But most countries don’t even have it for women? Very sad.
It was a great experience!
I thought the around the world presentations were really interesting. I liked how we got to look up information about other countries and got to learn about their culture, traditions, and struggles that they face. One aspect that stood out to me while listening to the presentations was the number of countries that view women as only good mothers and wives. That their place is in the kitchen, doing household chores, taking care of the kids, and being dependent on the husband. Some of the countries that believe this were Germany, Japan, India, Israel, and Mexico. Another issue I found interesting was how countries viewed the LGBTQ community. Ireland was one of the few that were very accepting of LGBTQ members. They even had openly gay members in government positions. However, majority of the other countries we discussed like Nigeria, Jamaica, Russia, China, and Haiti strongly oppose LGBTQ individuals. These people are often shunned, forced into conversion therapy, cyberbullied, and some cases even killed. I think overall these countries need to keep working towards gender equality. Women don’t deserve to be raped or killed just because they are female. Crimes against women need to be stopped. Women aren’t the weaker sex and should stop being viewed as less. Women deserve to be paid the same as men for doing the same job and working the same hours. Women also deserve to be well educated and given opportunities to succeed in life. New Zealand, for example, has more women who graduate college, but because women are viewed as less so are there jobs resulting in a huge wage gap of 20%.
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this project was my favorite out of all the projects because i got to learn more about countries around the world and even get a view of the hidden societal traditions or habits that you never would've thought was going on. my country was Argentina and i loved learning about this country, especially because i thought i was familiar with the culture but when you really research you find interesting facts you never knew. i feel like every country had good and bad qualities but the worst that stood out to me were Kenya, India and Jamaica. the gender equality was awful on terms of pay, abuse, work rolls etc. i found the most difficult thing to listen to was the abuse in Kenya and the dangers of Jamaica. its shocking because Jamaica has this "live a happy care-free life" stereotype and that's not the case at all when so many people fear for their lives. in terms of LGBT i was surprised at the countries who were more accepting of this than others. in the US it is not widely accepted but i like to think we have come a long way, compared to countries like Russia. i feel the world has some work to do as far as gender roles and acceptance of others but hopefully there is a change on the horizon.
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