Maybe that's a long long process. For me, this frank questioning is an extremely positive sign of healthy self-criticism, a quality often in short supply in community organizations. Comments from women at an earlier big city workshop I attended on Labour Law reveal the impact of CDM's work. He said that I wasn't learning anything but rather, on the contrary, I was unlearning what I knew previously. However, for me, the course has raised my self-esteem and encouraged me to take these issues into the union context.
Unions here are very male-dominated, very closed and machista .
Our male colleagues say that now we speak up more. We now also know of our legal entitlements and the opportunities and protection that Honduran law offers women. Part of the problem is that women just don't know. And if a woman doesn't have the food prepared or the chores done when her husband comes home, well he has a right to hit her. Some other participants disagreed with the woman but she was unshakeable in her convictions.