Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Female teachers' involvement for gender equality sought

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Female teachers' involvement for gender equality sought

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Government officials called for more participation from female educators in efforts to establish a gender-equal education system during the "National Policy Dialog on Gender Equality in Education" in Central Jakarta on Tuesday.

"We are lacking female head principals and female officials in our education departments, and we're not sure what is causing this," said Giri Suryatmana, secretary to the director general for quality development of education practitioners at the Education Ministry.

Giri said the majority of the 2.3 million teachers under the ministry's supervision were women for whom it was proving difficult to meet teacher certification requirements.

"They can't leave their offices or their families for too long," Giri said. With these teachers in mind, the ministry has devised distance learning programs and other alternative schemes for earning academic credit and completing degrees.

Harkristuti Harkriswono, director general for human rights at the Justice and Human Rights Ministry, said "The constitution, laws and presidential decrees in Indonesia accommodate gender equality in education. What we need right now is for more female educators to participate in spreading this information."

Structurally there have been improvements. Indonesia ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1984. Also, a 2000 presidential decree on gender mainstreaming in national development has led to the establishment of a gender mainstreaming working group at the ministry.

"The government is structurally committed to establishing gender equality in education. It is on the operational level, however, that problems are apparent," she said.

Harkristuti also said educators needed to put gender on the agenda in teaching children -- even as early as play group age. "For example, by giving the girls and the boys equal opportunities to play with trucks and dolls.

"Since most of the teachers for the elementary levels are women, we need to make sure that our female teachers are not biased."

Herwindo Haribowo, a member of the working group, defined gender as culturally shaped stereotypes of parenting, behavior and attitude. "However, we can't escape the fact that sometimes nature just takes its course."

He cited the tendency for more men than women to opt for the hard sciences -- engineering, mathematics, biology and physics -- when selecting majors at university.

"This means that it is the role of teachers to correct this perception. Female students should be encouraged to choose the best major for them at the university, regardless of their sex. The same goes for male students." (lva)