CNN
reported that Iran
Condoleezza Rice saying it is waste to discriminate
women from political positions on “Miss Representation.” Women have been
suffering from alienation in many opportunities but women must have hidden
potential that has not been uncovered and that even women themselves have not
realized yet. Our future depends on how many we can bring out these women’s potentials
and utilized them in our society.
However,
I learned that even if a dramatic revolution allowed a lot of women to get
involved in socially and politically important position at once, the underlying
idea of dominating men and subordinate women are not necessarily disappear only
by institutional reform. Institutional reform itself does not necessarily
resolve the system of inequality but deep-rooted prejudice against women still
exist. I think this is not only the matter for Iran Iran
I can understand your positions regarding allowing women to gain higher education globally. What I also find interesting though if you remember from the film misrepresentation it mentioned that other countries have more women in political power than the United States.I would hope this advantage would lead to giving more opportunities to women in education. That If women in other countries could have access to go into STEM work than the society as a whole would benefit in my opinion. I nation can only be as strong as the people allow it to be. To have a strong nation means to have strong educated people which needs to be equally from women as men.
ReplyDelete"it will lead to so-called brain drain which are caused by the outflow of competent human capitals to outside countries."
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. has taken a similar attitude toward North Korea's recent antics. The more a country's government is willing to alienate themselves, the more they are going to limit the development of their country. I predict that Iran will continue to face stunted development - socially, culturally, economically, and technologically - if they continue down this path.
This also reminds me of the post I wrote awhile back about a woman named Fawzia Koofi (http://osuws223.blogspot.com/2013/02/fawzia-koofi-case-study-on-womens.html) who is trying to gain political power in Afghanistan to help encourage social progress and cultural development in a global context. I feel that Iran in this case knows exactly what they are doing. They see women as threats to grossly-androcentric control norms, and by suppressing their ability to advance economically or politically they protect the norm of male dominance.