Education

I dedicate this section to all the women who struggleagainst machismo in order to further their education. Here is hoping youfind here a light in your path.
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"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to whatthey think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What youbelieve, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash	I don't know where my hunger for an education came from maybe from seeing my dad reading the newspapers and magazines everyday or my parents taking us to the library as a source of entertainment when we were children where I discovered the world in books.   But where ever it came from there it was.  I guess I also saw it as my out from an oppressive male chauvinistic society where I lived where women's highest aspirations where to be as beautiful, dutiful and clever to land a husband.  I saw education like many girls in my circle saw marriage as an out, as freedom from male dominance.  I couldn't see marriage giving me that freedom; it seemed to me that marriage would just substitute my father’s male dominance for another. So, I grabbed onto education as if it was the last drop of water in the desert.  I went to the university at 17, never having even left my house for sleepovers.  It wasn't easy to find myself in an Anglo-Saxon culture so different from my own, where independence was the norm, in contrast to the dependence in my large family.   So I longed for the weekends when I could go home, even though every time I went I had to hear the relentless browbeating from my father, who could not accept that I had left home, that I lived on my own.  He would tell me the education was not going to do me any good, that I should stay home and work in the fields like everyone else had.  "Who did I think I was?"   But I put up with it, because staying alone in the dorm in a commuter campus was even more painful to a person so used to being surrounded by family.  To be continued…	SCHOLARSHIP RESOURCES P.E.O International - A philanthropic organization of women that celebrate the advancement of women; educate through scholarships, grans and awards. Jeannette Rankin Women's Scholarship fund - Awarding scholarships to low-income women 35+ World Education - Various projects and scholarship resources for girls and women. Gender Equality Online -the first online forum dedicated to all things gender and development. Promoting Education and Employment for Women - PDF - as Foundations for Effective Human Trafficking Prevention Access to Higher Education for Women -Timor-Leste Radio Series behaviour change campaign Boostup - gibes potential graduates at-risk of dropping out the support they need
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