How did you find today’s lecture? To me it was interesting to know the price the Australian people, especially women had to pay to be where they are at the moment. Not that getting, on average, only 86% percent of what men get paid for doing the same job is good enough but is much more than the 54% it was a couple of decades back.
As a person who comes from the other end of the world, where, in most if not all cases, the west is portryed as a world which happens to be where it is now without much fuss, I was able to see the unequality women had to endure because of their gender. And the long and painful march women had had simply because their are women.
I congratulate them for what has been achieved so far and encourage them to continue to secure their equal wage and treatment as the next human being.
But the thing that still struck me the most was, our hypocritical approach to democracy and human equality. We go as far as Iraq and Afghanistan to secure democracy and free women-kinds from the religious bondage and treatment we deem as unfair and unacceptable in the 21st century and yet we do not treat our own mothers and sisters as ourselves.
What do you think of it friends?
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