Post Departure Blog - Priscila Sousa

One of the biggest things I learned on this trip was not not look at something completely one dimensionally. I know this isn't the purpose of this blog but the reason I say this is because prior to coming on this trip I had a very narrow view of women's leadership and a certain disregard for cultures that valued anything in women that was either physical or bilological. It IS important for women to place priorities in their family lives and their interests in things that are not involved with professional goals. There, after all, must have been some kind of a reason for all of the cultural artifacts in some of the cities we visited to have indication of this. Of course there was a strong male influence in the developing of these cultural ideals, but there must have been a reason why women were so apt to just comply with the cultural norms seeing as how women have ALWAYS had complete ability to do things otherwise.