FROM THE OPPOSITE SEX HISTORICALY WE HAVE SEEN
SINCE THE CRATION OF HUMANITY A WOMAN
HAS STRUGGLE TO BETTER THEM SELF.
TALKING FROM A FEMININITY VIEWPOINT
THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER AND
TO TALK ABOUT FEMINISM WE HAVE INVITED DR.
GINETTA CANDELARIO, PROFFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND LATIN AMERICAN
STUDIES AND OF WOMEN AT SMITH COLLEGE WE WILL BEGIN
WITH THE CONCEPT OF WHAT IS FEMINISM.---
>>>FEMINISM IS SIMPLY THE IDEA THAT A WOMAN IS A HUMAN BEING
AND AS A HUMAN BEING WE DESERVE ALL THE POSSIBILITIES
AND OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP ITSELF AND AS A MEMBER OF A SOCIETY,
OF A COMMUNITY WERE SHE IS, THAT IS ALL.
>>>I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WROTE SEVERAL BOOKS,
HISTORICALLY YOU INVESTIGATED AND HAVE TRIED ALL THIS.
WHY ARE YOU SO INTERESTED IN THIS SUBJECT?
>>>THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS
THE BOOK THAT I PUBLISHED WITH SEVERAL COLLEAGUES OF
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WAS ENTRUSTED
BY THE GREAT DOMINICAN FEMINIST MAGALI PINEDA,
MAY SHE REST IN PEACE, SHE PASSED LAS YEAR,
WHO TOLD US THAT WE DOMINICANS AND STUDIOUS
THAT ARE RESIDING OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO GO AND SHARE
WITH THE DOMINICAN FEMINIST WITHIN OUR COUNTRY,
OF THE ISLAND ALL THE INVESTIGATION THAT WE HAVE TAKEN YEARS,
IN SOME CASES LIKE MINE, DEVELOPING FOR DECADE, WELL THIS WAS
>>>THE CONCLUSION OF ALL THIS INVESTIGATION
>>>THE PRIMARY CONCLUSION IS THAT FEMINISIM IS NATIVE
TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND IN EVERY COUNTRY IT EXIST,
THAT IS NOT AN AOUTSIDE INPOSITION,
IT DID NOT COME WITH THE GRINGOS OR THE MILITARY INVASIONS
INSTEAD THE DOMINICAN WOMEN THAT ANALIZED THE PROBLEM,
THE PROBLEM OF THE STATE VIOLANCE, THE PROBLEM
OF THE MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, T
HE EXCLUTION OF CITIZENSHIP ETC..
AND GOT ORGANIZED TO ANSWER THESE PROBLEMS
>>>DO YOU THINK WE HAVE BEEN OBJECT OF OPPRESSION
BY THE MAN IN OUR SOCIETY,
>>>WEEL AS A SOCIOLOGIST I MUST ANSWER THE QUESTION
NOT AS MUCH AS THE INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS
BUT OF THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE, FOR EXAMPLE,
THE OBSTRUCTION OF FULL CITIZENSHIP, OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS,
THE ACCESS TO THE EMPLOYMENT MARKET,
THE ACCESS TO THE BENEFITS OF PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC...
THAT IF WOMAN HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY THE PARTRIARCH
FOR BEING A WOMAN THAT A WOMAN MANY TIMES HAS
REPRESENTED HERSELF AS THE INFERIOR SEX WITHIN OUR SOCIETY,
YES THIS IS A FORM OF VIOLENCE AND THIS MANY TIMES SUPPORTS
WHAT IS DETERMINED AS INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE.
THIS IS THE REASON THE WOMAN HAS BEEN DISADVANTAGED,
VIOLATED WITHIN HER HOME AS WELL AS IN THE GENERAL SOCIETY,
THIS IS FROM WHERE FEMINISM ARISES,
WITH THE DESIRE TO PUT A STOP TO THIS SITUATION
>>>THIS IS SOMETHING AGAINST MAN, FEMINISM IS ONLY FOR WOMAN,
>>>THIS IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE, FEMINISM IS FOR ALL SOCIETY,
FOR HUMANITY BECAUSE IT AMOUNTS THE OPPORTUNITIES,
THE POSSIBILITIES THAT EACH PERSON BE MAN OR WOMAN,
BOY OR GIRL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AUTO BE,
AUTO DEVELOP AND NOT TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE INSTITUTIONS
OF OUR SOCIETY SO IS NOT AGAINST THE MAN,
IS AGAINST THE EXCLUSION, THE DISCRIMINATION, THE VIOLENCE,
THE VETOED OPPORTUNITIES THAT IS WHAT IT IS.
OF COURSE IF THERE ARE MAN THAT WANT TO VETOED
THEN WE WILL BE IN A CONFLIT BUT IF WE UNDERSTAND T
HAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PERFORM AND THAT WE ALSO HAVE
THE RESPONSIBILITY AS A SOCIETY
TO SUPPORT OURSELVES THEN THERE IS NO PROBLEM
>>>HISTORICALY HAVE THERE BEEN A CHANGED SINCE THE BEGINNING
OF THIS FEMINIST MOVEMENT TO DATE,
WHAT HAVE BEN THE CHANGE AND WHAT HAS BEN ACHIVED.
>>>I THINK THAT WHAT HAS CHANGED IS THE WAY THAT VIOLENCE
AND CHALLENGE ARE EXPRESSED, THE PROBLEM WILL ALWAYS
EXIST THE DESIRE TO EXCLUDE TO LIMIT THE SAME THE ANSWER
WILL ALWAYS BE CHANGED OR CREATIVE THERE WAS IMPROVEMENT.
FOR EXAMPLE THE PRESENCE OF EDUCATION IN WOMAN,
IN THE POLITICAL SCOPE IN THE LOBOR MARKET
AND IT HAS IMPROVED PRESICELY DUE TO THE WORK OF THESE WOMAN,
OF THIS FEMINIST
BUT WE STILL NEED MORE
>>>IF I HAD THE POWER TO MAKE CHANGES ,
IN SOME FORM THE INVESTIGATION AND THE STUDIES
WILL GIVE YOU A LEVEL OF PREPARATION. WHAT WILL YOU CHANGE..
>>>WELL AS AN EDUCATOR AND AS A DOMINICAN WITH THE LEGACY
OF FEMINIST EDUCATORS FOR ME THE SUBJECT WILL ALWAYS BE EDUCATION,
OF REALLY BEING ABLE TO INSTILL THE IDEA THAT A WOMON
AND A GIRL ARE HUMAN BEINGS THE SAME AS THE MAN AND THE BOY
AND THAT THIS SHOULD BE UPDATED IN ALL THE AREAS
AND ALL THE INSTITUTIONS STOP THAT AWARENESS OF DISCRIMINATION
AND EXCLUSION AND TRY TO REORGANIZE THE WAY
IN WHICH WE DO WHAT WE DO IN OUR SORROUNDINGS BE IT OUR HOME,
BE IT THE SCHOOL, OR THE POLITICAL REALM, ETC.
>>>AT WHAT LEVEL WOMEN HAVE OVERCOME VARIOUS AREAS BOTH
IN SOCIAL WORK, WORK AS A WOMAN, AS A MOTHER.
WHICH HAS BEEN THE GREATEST IMPROVEMENT
WHAT WE CAN SPEAK HISTORICALLY.
>>>I THINK CONSCIOUSNESS, FOR EXAMPLE,
I AM 50 YEARS OLD AND IN MY LIFE OF 50 YEARS,
HALF A CENTURY I HAVE SEEN CHANGE IN THE WAY THAT
IS ACCEPTABLE OR NOT TO TALK TO A COLLEAGUE AT WORK,
OR INTERACT WITH A WOMAN ON THE STREET,
THE CONCEPT OF STREET HARASSMENT THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE,
FOR EXAMPLE THE RIGHTS IN TERMS OF SELF DETERMINATION
IN PUBLIC EALTH AND PREGNANCY,
ALL THESE THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN MY LIF,
THAT I CONSIDER AS A LEGACY AS A RESULT OF FEMINISM
IN BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA, ETC
>>>IN COMPARISON TO OTHER CULTURES,
LATINAS WOMEN TEND TO HAVE MORE OF THE IDEOLOGIES OF FEMINISM
COMPARED TO AFRICAN AMERICAN OR AMERICAN
>>> FOR NOTHING, THE MOST INTERESTING THING TO ME IN TERMS
OF THE RESULTS OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO UNDERSTAND T
HAT EACH GROUP OF WOMAN, BE DIFFERENTIATED BY CLASS,
BY NATIONALITY, BY STATE OF LIFE ITS CONCEPT
OF FEMINISM AND SEEK TO ADVOCATE FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
WITHIN THE CONTEXT IS NOT A MATTER OF NEITHER
MORE OR LESS BUT DIFFERENT, GIVEN THE CONTEXT
>>>IN WHICH IT IS AS CURRENT EFFORTS ARE.
THERE IS STILL SOME SECTARIANISM,
FOR BEING A WOMAN WE PAY GET LOWER PAY FOR BEING A WOMAN
WE DO NOT GET THE OPPORTUNITY OF WORK BUT IF
A MAN COMES ALONG AND APPLY IN ANY JOB FUNCTION
>>>UNDOUBTEDLY ALL FIELDS OF RESEARCH OF INVESTIGATION
AND SOCIOLOGY HAVE PROVEN THAT EVEN LABOR DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WOMEN STILL PERSIST IN TERMS OF LESS WAGES,
AS TO VETO THE ENTRANCE INTO CERTAIN CAREERS,
IN TERMS OF PROMOTIONS, ETC.
SO IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THAT WOMEN REMAIN DISADVANTAGED AND BEYOND
IF THEY ARE IMMIGRANTS, OF COLOR, AFRO DESCENDANTS, IDIGENOUS,
DISABLED, ADULT OR SENIOR, ETC. SO YES,
>>> THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO EMPHASIZE THAT WOMEN SIMPLY
HAVE TO GIVE THEMSELVES THE RIGHT AND THE LOVE OF WOMEN
NO MATTER IF FIGHTING OR NOT FIGHTING.
THIS IS ABOUT FEELING VALUED BY THE FACT OF BEING A WOMEN