SDLC 110 Learning Journal # 12

[Sydney Freeman]

This week we had our cultural project presentations which I found to be incredibly enlightening and thought-provoking. I learned a lot about women's rights in Turkey but also in South Korea. I also learned important vocabulary terms like how to say women in Turkey "Kadınlar", equality "Eşitlik", gender "Cinsiyet", and power "Güç". I was very impressed with how both cultures are very progressive in women's rights and there are opportunities for women to become highly educated and serve as leaders in the workforce. But also, I was very surprised to learn statistics about domestic violence in Turkey, the gender wage gap in South Korea, and educational disparities among men and women as the result of economic status. These presentations opened my eyes to the current gender debate going on outside of America and motivated me to learn more vocabulary related to this topic so that I could have conversations in Turkish about this important issue.