Global Q&A: ‘In your country, are women taking more prominent roles in society?’

Sunshine Coast, Australia: Tanisha Ison, 25, High School Teacher: Women taking more prominent roles in society! I’d like to think they are, but I think it’s a very slow moving process unfortunately. I feel that, especially when I was choosing my role, my occupation, when I was young, when I was thinking about it, I felt that my only decision, my only choice I had were women’s roles, which is kind of why I became a teacher. I think that we’re getting a little bit more open minded now to the idea of women being able to step up and take on those manly masculine roles.

Equality and women leading the way, to women being disadvantaged are the varied experiences of today’s interviewees. This is what Epoch Times reporters from areas such as Spain to Australia discovered when they asked locals, “In your country, are women taking more prominent roles in society?”

Look for the Global Q&A column every week. Epoch Times correspondents interview people around the world to learn about their lives and perspectives on local and global realities. Next week’s global question, “In your country, how can social, economic, and environmental well-being be better balanced?”