Blog #4

When I graduate college, I really want to go over to Africa and work with a nonprofit organization like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch and help women and children over there who are being raped as a tool of war or work in a refugee came there. However, I really don't think that I could be away from my family for that long or be away from them at all. I would love to work as a school counselor because I love kids and helping people. I have also thought about working as a counselor in an abused women's shelter or maybe even working as a patient advocate. I think W S 3220 Domestic Violence and the Law would help me a little bit with traveling over to Africa to work for a non profit organization. W S 3233 Women Creating Social Change would be a very interesting class to take and help me understand how women are involved with social change because I'm currently taking social change right now. W S 3453 Women's Psychosocial Development would help me a lot as well. W S 3563 Women and World Politics would be good just in case I do decide to travel with a nonprofit organization so that I can better understand politics and women around the world. W S 3810 Gender, Law, and Human Rights would also help me a lot and it's also good because my major is actually human relations. The classes that I listed above would really help me in any of my jobs that I choose to do. If I decide to work for a nonprofit organization and go to Africa, gender would play a huge role in my line of work. Not only would I deal with women and their physical needs, I would have to deal with understanding why men are raping these women as a tool of war. If I decided to work as a school counselor, I would have to deal with gender issues with counseling and deal with the psychological needs of both boys and girls. I would have to deal with women's issues when working for an abused women's shelter and would have to deal with both if I decided to become a patient advocate. I have dealt with gender needs of both men and women and boys and girls with my work history. I worked in a daycare and had to attend to the needs of three year old boys and girls. While all the children were similar, boys and girls need different things. I worked in a veterinarian office and mostly dealt with animals, but I also had to deal with owners sometimes and I found that the women were more worried about their animal than men generally were. After that, I worked at a place called Dustee's and dealt with all kinds of people. I've always had a job where I've had to deal with all kinds of people throughout my work history. I don't know that there's any job that doesn't deal with gender somehow and we face challenges with gender in everyday situations and issues.