A part of my research includes gathering as much data as possible on lawyers and law students in Malawi by gender. But this has been sort of hard because of the policies regarding information security in this country. Information about test scores or admission based on ethnicity, district, and gender has been difficult to acquire. [...]
Archive for January, 2012
The gas situation here is beyond crazy. People park their cars overnight at gas stations with fleeting hopes that gas will come the next day. They have to take at least a day off work to get in the winding line waiting at the stations. Bumper to bumper. Fender benders. Disorganization. Frustration. It’s all there. [...]
Rumor has it there are three sides to every issue. There’s your side, my side, and the truth. Well this couldn’t be more apparent after conducting more than a few of my interviews over the past week. As you know, my objective for this trip is to see if there are any gender inequities within [...]
Seeing how I’m researching all things related to lawyers in Malawi, I planned to sit in on a court case. I wanted to compare it to what we have in the states and run it to you all play by play Malawi Law in Order style…but I can’t because the court staff is on strike [...]
I can’t figure out which one I like better…riding a plane at night or during the daytime. At night, populated areas look like constellations with lights blinking up at you in varied designs, ripping through the dark and providing a map of a city. It’s almost otherworldly. In the light you can see the great [...]
I’m going to Malawi. Nope. Not a place in Hawaii, but in the beautiful, exciting expanse of terrain in Africa with people I hear are just as beautiful as the country. I am going to run on the ground research to help uncover hard data and interview females in the field of law to shine a [...]
