Oppression Site #1

I found this website from http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/conference/?scp=3&sq=Oppression&st=cse it Came from the article The Choice, about women having no where to go and being abused and having no help.
Q.
You made the point when we met that Bryn Mawr saw a clear role for itself, going forward, in preparing students to respond to the abuses and violence that many women endure not just here in the United States but abroad. What are some ways that a women’s college like Bryn Mawr can execute that mission?

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In our conversation we talked about how disturbing it is that in the 21st century women continue to suffer from systemic oppression and brutalization across the globe. Female fetuses
are aborted simply for being female. Little girls are dying from lack of nutrition and medical care simply for being female. Adolescent girls and young women are forced into sexual slavery, subjected to genital mutilation and murdered to save the family ‘honor.’ In some countries, women die in childbirth at rates that rival those in the middle ages. All this in the 21st century!
As a college that has been educating and empowering women for 125 years, Bryn Mawr can do something about this. We have the interest and concern, we have the educational programs and we have the experience in dealing with diversity that a world-wide effort to combat the continuing oppression of women needs. And we are already involved.
Well before the term “service learning” even existed, Bryn Mawr made civic engagement a central part of our students’ experience. We are focused on making sure every student’s time at Bryn Mawr has some international component to it. And our students come from extraordinarily diverse backgrounds.
I see Bryn Mawr using its prominence and prestige to convene conferences like “Heritage and Hope”, where educators, advocates and NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] can gather to share knowledge and forge collaborations.
Through the courses we offer, the internships we fund and the campus events we sponsor, I want to raise our students’ consciousness on these issues so that whether they become doctors, lawyers, chemists, artists, or C.E.O.’s, they can be agents of change in addressing this worldwide challenge of women’s oppression.