Women's development, education

Hi, this is Megumi. I listened to a presentation about women's development, feminism movement by Arvonne Fraser who was a representative of USA in the United Nation. She explained about the history about feminism movements and some important things to encourage women. She mentions three points which needed to women; education, employment, and participation in public life (affairs). Especially she emphasized how important education is. For example, education will bring a woman leader, which can change the women's life, less torelance of descremination, and so on.

She introduced one interesting experience of her when she was in Japan. She tried to look around a hotel, but she couldn't read or understand Japanese at all, so she was insecure and went back to the hotel. This expeience describe that illiteracy make you unempower, which made me think the importance of education.

To be born in Japan, I have never felt strong gender discrimination, but after I heard her presentation, I noticed that due to the people of our grand mother's generation, I don't have to feel discremination anymore. There is still discrimination or difference between male and female, we should know the fact and think about it.