The quest for gender fairness and equality is a long battle. Are we winning? I believe so....
There have been so many positive changes already. And we have to thank the courageous people of the past and present who fought and are fighting for this cause.
Women now have equal rights with men - to vote, work, own property, etc. Gender is not anymore limited to the concepts and standards set on being men and women.
On the surface, we can say that we can now choose how to live our life, who our partners will be, what our personal choices are in clothes, style, profession, etc.
But beyond the surface, we still battle with judgmental people, some laws and the norms in our society.
This had been a long battle indeed. And the fight is not yet over. Let us choose the right side....
Four years ago, gender equality advocates in NDDU (including me) organized and founded Notre Dame Students Task Force on Gender Awareness and Equality Advocacy (NDSTF-GAEA) . NDSTF was Virgilio's idea while GAEA was John's. It is only now, as I read in a material, that I learned that GAEA is more than an acronym. GAEA is the goddess of the Earth, a symbol of women empowerment...... hehe, I should have known earlier.
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teng, true na ged ni! .39 cents pa lang pera ko.. huhuhu! help me, you make more pinduts and ask many people to make pinduts our blogs... for money sake..
mwuash ΓΌ
haha teng... sige, will do... nalingaw ko sa imo.
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