Shazia Rafi introduces Janice Brodman, Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies Education Development Center, who gives a talk on the opportunities that information and communications technologies (ICTs) provide to the global women's movement, and outlines some strategies and emerging best practices for their use.
A Q&A session between panelists and the audience. Topics covered include cultural sensitivity and effective strategies for changing a society's "informal rules" in addition to the formal ones.
Q&A session for the third and final panel of the symposium. Topics include reaching out to men in the struggle for women's rights, differing views on Islam and feminism, and the need for more education in gender studies in many parts of the Global South.
Throughout history, the unequal status of women in the family has been remarkably similar in countries all over the world. Relationships between men and women and boys and girls have been hierarchical and segmented by gender roles. The unequal status of women and men in the home, in particular, has modeled and sustained inequality in society at large.
