Raising their voices
Raising their voices
Sheetal Rawal, Sarah Ghabrial, Dilani Mohan and Lara Shkordoff are at the heart of a rumble that is starting to be heard across Ontario.
The four Western students - three from Huron University College and one from the Faculty of Information and Media Studies - are the leaders of the Miss G___ Project. Founded in January 2005, the project's mission is to get a women's studies course into the province's high school curriculum.
To accomplish the Miss G___ mission, Rawal, Ghabrial, Mohan and Shkordoff have motivated students at nine other Ontario universities to launch Miss G___ chapters. They have also generated awareness, interest and demand for women's studies among high school students, and pushed to get profi le for gender equity and women's issues within the province's Ministry of Education.
And the Miss G___ Project is finding success. The addition of women's studies to the high school curriculum was debated in the Ontario Legislature in December. Afterwards, Rawal, Mohan, Shkordoff, Ghabrial and 19 other Miss G__ members met with the province's Minister of Education, Gerard Kennedy.
"People are recognizing that there is a problem with failing to include gender and its implications in high school curriculum and they're thinking and talking about a solution," says Rawal. "The rumble just keeps growing."
