Gender Violence Questions

1)       Latin America has made huge progress in getting women into government, why is violence still such a large problem in your opinion?

Sexism is an important issue that started many years ago. Since human beings started to exist they had a sexism thinking, because the unusual is that the man go out hunting and the women stay in the cave taking care of the baby, this is similar to what we live today. Now a days some women and men believe that women can not be firefighter or, for the simple reason of not being men. But the only reason why sexism exist is because some women do not enforce their rights.

2)      What steps can be taken to improve the situation for women in Latin America?

·         Define and understand what is machism and the causes and consequences.

·         Locate and identify sexism. Sexism is often transferred by women to their sons at the process of growing.

·         Find a way for women to enforce their rights.

·         Reorganize the historical memory and include women in important facts.

·         Change the idea that women have less capacity than men.

3)    What are some obstacles to taking these steps?  In other words, if there is an obvious solution, why is it not being taken?

It’s hard to believe that one of the biggest obstacle are women, because they don’t enforce their rights and mistakenly transferred to their children sexism actions. Men are another obstacle, because they believe that they are superior to women in strength or intelligence. Finally the government is another obstacle because it doesn’t care about this type of issue, but they don’t know that this theme is so important as delinquency or terrorism. Many women are hit by their husband and sometimes they kill themselves thanks to sexism, but government doesn’t protect or guarantee justice to the victims.