Comments on: ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ commission advocates for women’s rights /news/2013/03/05/uh-commission-advocates-for-womens-rights/ News from the University of Hawaii Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:45:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Elaine /news/2013/03/05/uh-commission-advocates-for-womens-rights/#comment-29910 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:34:19 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=14723#comment-29910 That is somewhat of a problem too when focus on the core issue is passed over with numbers. which in reality mean nothing.
It is an attitude problem. A deep rooted one. Simple.

]]> By: Vanessa /news/2013/03/05/uh-commission-advocates-for-womens-rights/#comment-29909 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:09:30 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=14723#comment-29909 In reply to Joe.

Not sure where you are getting your numbers from, Joe. The gender breakdown of fulltime students at all ten ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ campuses is Men 45.4% Women 54.6% () so yes, women students are certainly on better footing, but when you start looking at it by discipline there are a lot of fields, especially in the sciences or STEM, where men are are still disproportionally the majority.

]]> By: Joe /news/2013/03/05/uh-commission-advocates-for-womens-rights/#comment-29908 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:59:43 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=14723#comment-29908 If the system is 65% male and 35% female we would have a problem. But since it is 65% female and 35% male the only problem is female professor rates, not equality in the student representation.

]]> By: Elaine /news/2013/03/05/uh-commission-advocates-for-womens-rights/#comment-29907 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:14:35 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=14723#comment-29907 Imagine that. Women ʻstartingʻ to be acknowledged as capable thinkers and equals in the year 2013. Wow. Thatʻs just a wee bit shameful.
What is harmful and one reason why it is still not ʻequalʻ is the pervading undertone by males (yes, usually white but not always) that we are being tolerated because it is the politically correct thing to do. Or worse yet, patronized.

My father abruptly rejected my pleas when I was offered an Art Scholarship at Catholic University because as he said, females are supposed to be secretaries. My father? What was his profession? A JAG Officer at the Pentagon and attorney in Hawaii for 30 years.

Now, I wish I could have not been discouraged and taken advantage of not only the Art career but Law. Unheard of!!! He also made it abundantly clear that women are incompetent lawyers.
We need to push this agenda even harder. Young women today have no idea how important this is and it is not their fault; how could they possibly know what it was like back then. And to look back and sadly think… if only I could have done that.
Mahalo.

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