Re: [DEHAI] Reflections

Salome Gebre-Egziabher (sge@UMICH.EDU)
Thu, 1 May 1997 18:54:46 -0400 (EDT)

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Hello Kibra I enjoyed your post where your posed your crucial, thoughtfull
and valuable (my own personal evaluation) question as followes:

"My question to all of you is what do you so when this happens in
your own homes, or your own cities? What do you do when you see
that your wives, daughters, sisters, and nieces have been shut
out of your own personal conversations? How do you include
them, or are you even aware?"

What do we really do when this happens, as you say if we notice at all?
Do we believe women/girls and other oppressed groups have voices and
should be heard and we will make sure they are heard by taking turns to
speak. By providing safe enviornment? Etc. Recently I went through a
staff developemtn training where one of the main rules was to creat a safe
enviornment where all be heard, whether we like to hear it or not. To bad
Icann recreate the workshop in cyberspace.

Thansk for your thoughtful posting.

Sealm and ridette to all of us.

Salome Gebre-Egziabher, who hopes she is not getting carried away due to
the sabbatical taken by some and due to the remark "made we need to hear
from more women."

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