Today the Women's Department held its 7th annual Women's Summit - just one of the many highlights of Women's month. Women from urban and rural communities from around the country gathered where they all joined in a dialog to share their experiences as women. Director of the Women's Department, Icilda Humes who told us why the summit is more than just a talk shop:
Icilda Humes, Director of the Women's Department
"This year we really wanted to ensure that we are being true to the theme " Connecting Girls Inspiring Futures" and for that reason we made a very special effort to ensure that we had a large population of young women participating in this event because we really do need to engage in more inter-generation dialogue; women to girl - girl to women, so that we can understand the different perspectives that we have, so that we can understanding the perspectives of young women, the perspectives of girls and so that they can understand our perspective in a mutually respectfully manner."
"I think that we need to do more of this. We continue to do at the smaller scale throughout the year, but I think women/girls have really started to look forward to the summit as an opportunity for them to speak freely with their peers and with those who they might not consider to be their peers because we often celebrate the similarities that we have as women and as girls and as members of the female population."
"We don't really talk about the differences and the fact that it is those differences that make us unique. It is those differences that make us a very diverse group of people and so we need to understand that yes we embrace our similarities but we also respect and embrace our differences as well."
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