PORT 3001 Fall 08

As mulheres buscam uma vida profesional entao estudam mais. Mas o mais que as mulheres estudam, o mais dificultades tem para casar. As mulheres que estudam sao mais selectivas, elas buscam o homem que pensa do mismo dela e que esta no mismo nivel de ela. As mulheres negras tem mais dificultades para encontrar um homem que as mulheres brancas.

I am not sure if I correctly understood the material presented in this piece. From what I did comprehend it seemed as though women in Portuguese speaking countries are seen as not as intelligent as men. If they are intelligent they are less desirable to marry. Also it seemed as though the report made a comparison to race and marriage or race and intelligence. I found it strange that the professor stated that women have less knowledge than men in some areas. The women that they showed however demonstrated that females can be intelligent. Another controversy that was women can not have a family and be career oriented. Once again I was surprised because the Portuguese culture always appeared to me as one that was fairly equal in terms of gender. Overall I got a new insight to the more traditional side of Portuguese culture that still exists today.

Essa noticia é sobre algo raro na sociedade lusófona: quando uma mulher toma mais educação, ela ter mais dificuldades a encontrar um homem para casar. As mulheres estão estudando mais para financias pessoal e porque têm preocupações da família, pêro a educação faz difícil o encontro do par. Com a maior educação, há menos oportunidades de casamento. Esse não há algo que ocorre com os homens. A nível de casamento para as mulheres educadas é mais menos para as mulheres negras que as mulheres brancas.

The report is talking about women being educated and raising a family. It sounds like as a society, Brazilian women are going to school and are getting married later than they used to. One of the ladies said she desired to have children and get married. The video said though that almost 57% of uneducated women were married while 45.6% of educated women were. I am not sure if they were referring to a specific age group of women. Probably women in their twenties or so though. Men with the same amount of education ended up being married more frequently (53.1%). I think it also said that black women are married less frequently than white women.

The percentage of uneducated married women is higher than that of educated married women. According to one man they interviewed one of the reasons might be that men want a younger, less intelligent woman. Another opinion given in the story is that educated women are more selective than uneducated women. They won't marry the first guy who comes around. Also, fewer black women are married than white women. I didn't understand what the woman gave as an explanation at the end.

From what I understand, the news report is about women who have careers and are eduacted (undergrad/graduate students yes, but highschool educations as well?) in Brazil. They report that it is a worrying situation for women who want to not only have careers but have families as well. It states that Brazilian men typically look for women (to marry) who are younger and NOT better educated or wealthier than they are. I found it quite interesting that one's race plays a role in this (black women have the hardest time pursuing careers while maintaining/creating a family life) because previously I had been under the notion that judgement on one's skin color was not a major issue in Brazil. I didn't expect that from this report, and found it really interesting!

Esta história trata se das mulheres educadas e como elas têm dificuldade encontrando um parceiro. A manchete da história é “mulheres que estudam mais têm mais dificuldade de se casa. O repórter diz isto é porque os homens geralmente estão procurando mulheres mais nova e a mesmo tempo menos estudada em temos ni econômicos e ni intelectuais. Penso que este fato é triste mas também verdadeiro na cultura dos Estados Unidos também. Muitas vezes posso ver homens que tem medo das mulheres mais inteligente deles, tristemente também ver muitas vezes que as mulheres tentam aparecer menos educadas para combater este medo. Nesta história há uma mulher que diz que estudando pode aumentar o mente e resultará em o troncando de idéias entre parceiros. Outra mulher diz que as mulheres que tem 8 anos da estuda tem menos êxito com casamento porque elas são mais seletivas e elas estão procurando alguém com opinais semelhantes. Penso que essas duas mulheres têm razão. Tenho muito respeito para todas as pessoas homens e mulheres que querem aumentar suas mentes e aprender. Penso que apesar do fato é mais difícil para as mulheres educadas encontrar um parceiro quando pode encontrar esso parceiro a relação vai ser mais forte porque esta baseado em idéais e ideais intelectuais e não somente características superfícies.

A noticia fala sobre algo que em America chama-se a ''fenda do sucesso'' ou ''success gap''. Embora é bem triste a realidade é que as mulheres que estudam mais casam-se menos. Afortunadamente, este fenômeno é cada vez menos aparente na nossa sociedade. Forma parte dum desequilibrío geral a que as mulheres são sujeitos no mundo do trabalho e educação. Nós sabemos também que as mulheres ganham menos que um homem por fazer o mesmo trabalho, outra grande grande injustiça o que está a mudar. Creo que não tem que passar as injustiças como estas mas também há que lembrar que durante muitos muitos anos as mulheres não trabalhavam fora da casa e não também conseguiam niveis muito alta de formacão. Todo o mundo não é muito aberto as ideas novas. Outra idea no que temos que pensar é que a educação precisa muito tempo da vida dum aluno e por isso é mais difícil procurar um namorado. Não quero dizer que é justo a ''fenda do sucesso'' só que há que pensar em todos os fatores que inclui.

I think that the statistic about educated women being less likely to get married in Brazil is really interesting. The video seems to treat it as a tragic statistic, and interprets it to mean that men find educated women less desirable as potential candidates for marriage. However, I think there are other possible reasons why less educated women get married more often than those more educated. More educated women are probably more capable of caring for themselves and looking after their own needs, and are therefore less likely to be enticed into a marriage by the prospect of being supported by a husband. Educated women may also just be busy with their careers and/or studies, and may prefer to spend time on these activities, rather than trying to find a husband. Educated women may also just have higher standards for themselves and therefore just wait until they find a marriage partner that they feel is truly worth it, thus narrowing their pool of potential husbands. There are a variety of reasons for the lower marriage rate of educated women that involve women being the active decision makers, rather than men. The way that I understood the video, the reporters were treating marriage as a male decision which all females inherently desire. I feel that this is extremely unfounded, although it is quite possible that I misunderstood some parts of the video.