KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 1, 2019 \u2013 When Eneida Bennett graduates from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 19, she will be leaving with a new mission as an advocate for women.<\/p>\n
Bennett, of Cranston, Rhode Island,<\/strong> who is earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in human studies, says her courses in Women and Gender Studies has made her take a closer look at how women fare in the workplace and in education, facing far more obstacles than their male counterparts.<\/p>\n And as a paralegal in a Providence law firm, Bennett has knowledge of the legal system that would be an asset in helping women through complicated issues.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to find a way to make a positive impact on issues that women face every day,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Before returning to school at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Feinstein Providence campus, Bennett was perfectly happy working as a paralegal since receiving her associate\u2019s degree in 2001.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t feel like I needed another degree at that point,\u201d said Bennett.<\/p>\n That all changed in 2013 when Bennett, who was engaged to be married the following year, had a conversation with her future mother-in-law, who convinced her to continue her studies and get a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n \u201cMy husband and I weren\u2019t planning on having children, so my mother-in-law said, \u2018Let your degree be your baby,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n That comment made Bennett think seriously about her future.<\/p>\n She enrolled in evening classes in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program at the Feinstein Providence campus, which was just a short walk from the law office where she worked.<\/p>\n Even then, she found herself doubting whether she would finish the program.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t until her adviser urged her to try Gender and Women\u2019s Studies courses, which gave her a new sense of purpose, and a renewed interest in completing her degree.<\/p>\n \u201cThose classes opened my eyes to better understand how we as women have been, and continue to be, oppressed. I knew then that I wanted to help women who had been exploited,\u201d she said. \u201cHoping that I could make a difference in some way awakened a need in me.\u201d<\/p>\n Bennett said she wants to explore social services and community organizations where she can volunteer to help women, and also hopes to serve on boards that will further the cause.<\/p>\n But first, she said, she owes her mother-in-law a big \u201cthank you\u201d for giving her that push to earn her degree, and to her husband and family for their support in the journey that led to her calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 1, 2019 \u2013 When Eneida Bennett graduates from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 19, she will be leaving with a new mission as an advocate for women. Bennett, of Cranston, Rhode Island, who is earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in human studies, says her courses in Women and Gender Studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}