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International Women's Day, 2015
Vastmind
Memphis, TN Veteran
Below, find seven ways to be an everyday MAKER, on Sunday, March 8 and beyond:
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I think it's an appalling indictment of a 21st-Century Global community that we even NEED day to highlight such matters. For chrissakes, what about the other 364 days where our slogging, efforts and needs go unheard, unrewarded, vilified or ignored.
Shit, @Vastmind, and I promised myself I'd not say a word today....
Who you tellin'?? All we can do is work with what we got.....I really wanted to find some useful, productive seeds to plant AFA how to move things forward....That's about all we can do for 'Days' on anything/subject.
For those who don't usually click on links...this is it....and like Aunt Fede pointed out...try to do these things ALL year long....let's all plant seeds....
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Fail, and try again. Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code, an organization that aims to provide computer science education and exposure to 1 million young women by 2020. Before that, she lost her campaign for Congress. “I never get things on the first time, or the second time,” she says. More like the third or the fourth time.”
Talk back. When Emily May went to college, she was harassed on the street. “It was the first time I was made to feel less than,” she told MAKERS. So she and some friends decided to call attention to a problem that wasn’t being talked about. They founded Hollaback!, a platform for people to share their experiences of street harassment. ”We need to build a world in which everyone can feel safe in who they are as they walk down the street.”
Help a woman get elected—or run yourself. Emily’s List helps fund female candidates who run on a pro-choice, pro-women platform. You can pledge financial support by giving as little as $5 a month, attend an event, or learn how to run for office by getting information on Emilyslist.org. That’s what Barbara Mikulski did!
Thank a woman who’s paved the way for you. Kathy Griffin says, “It’s a genuine passion of mine to talk about the women who have paved the way for me.” She studied the women whose work she admired, and she’s since met some of her idols—“all the women who were out there doing it by themselves.”
Consider diversity in everything you do. Writers like Shonda Rhimes have helped make it so TV shows do better when they have more diverse casts (a study proved it). And as Geena Davis says, “Make whatever you were going to make, just put more female characters in it.” Be it a book, movie, or game show - strive for equal representation of varied people.
Invite women to support one another. We all know Madeleine Albright’s quote: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” Take a page from Alfre Woodard’s book and dispel the rumors about competition or snarky behavior by having a dinner party and inviting all the women you admire.
Be of service. Oprah probably (okay definitely) said it best: “Determine for yourself how you are going to serve and then lean into that. Lean into that with your whole heart. To serve, to serve something greater than yourself. [Ask], how can I be of significance through the service that I have to offer?”
Bread and roses!
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson
OMG......I want to dig my eyeballs out right now!!!!!
Quoting Pat Robertson on my thread???
Who sent you?
Who wants me away from here?
@Jason
It seems nothing is either sacred nor safe from those who obviously fear that women may actually have a legitimate right to be heard. The cacophony of the misogynist is loud here....
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/8/8171269/ddos-attack-targets-femsplain-on-international-womens-day...
I got a 404 on that link ^^^^
@federica
I typical....
http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/8/8171269/ddos-attack-targets-femsplain-on-international-womens-day
If that doesn't work, Google www.theverge.com ....
Yep...that one worked.
Damn!!! Well....as usual....the proof is in the pudding....what a bunch of insecure men!!
I am reading the recent biography on Nelson Rockefeller and found interesting how he differed from his grandfather in terms of capitalism. The grandfather saw capitalism as a means of making a fortune. Nelson felt the profits from capitalism should be used for the benefit of the general population.
What did the Grandma think?
Or either one of Nelson's wives?
I think it's fitting on this thread to hear what the women of the family thought.
Well, I can only say that both Mrs. Rockefellers were well taken care of. The latter, and the sons, did not get the physical estate, Kykuit on the Hudson. That was bequeathed to an historic trust and opened to the general public. Grandma, with grandpa, donated large tracts of land to the American people -- Colonial Williamsburg, most of Grand Tetons National Park, the land for the Taconic Parkway and the Palisades, to mention just a few. Grandma spent a great deal of time volunteering in and sponsoring a school (as I recall it) in one of the poorest areas of Manhattan. She was the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum Of Modern Art (art which her husband dislike immensely). And, as stated in Wikipedia: "With a lifelong dedication to the advancement and welfare of women, Abby was one of the charter founders of the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. She was also a member of the Colony Club, the Women's City Club, the National Society of Colonial Dames, the Women's National Republican Club, the Faculty Club of Harvard University, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Garden Club of America, among others. Along with her husband, she also served on the board of trustees of the International House of New York. For decades she was involved with the YWCA's National Board, starting as chairman of its housing committee in 1918, building demonstration structures to accommodate working women contributing to the war effort, including, in 1919, the Bayway Cottage and Community House, in New Jersey, with financing from her husband. She was later to chair the Grace Dodge Hotel committee for fifteen years, organizing the construction of a major hotel for business and professional women involved in government work, as well as accommodating city visitors to Washington."
Good plan.
My apologies for bringing a goddess to what really is just about people . . .
@lobster, I'm surprised at you.
If you think this is 'just about people' again, you belittle the reason this thread exists.
Leonard Nimoy, bless him, was an extraordinary advocate of Women's Rights, and it was he who lobbied the Company responsible for producing 'Star Trek' to pay Nichelle Nicholls the same salary as her male counterparts, when he discovered her salary was so much lower.
It's believed that this is why in the recent 'Star Trek' "Prequels", Spock (played admirably by Zachary Quinto) has a relationship with Uhura. This was apparently an 'artistic Licence' nod, to how supportive Nimoy was to Nicholls.
(Quinto's role was personally approved and sanctioned by Nimoy....)
(And by the way, you HAVE to watch this, it's hilarious....
Nimoy also produced two absolutely stunning books, which I believe are now going to be worth a small fortune....
http://mashable.com/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-women-photographs/
http://www.rmichelson.com/artist_pages/nimoy/pages/Shekhina.html
His outstanding and audibly vocal support of women and their social standing was a clarion call to others to likewise support the quest for equality.
Shame idiots like Russell Crowe demonstrate their current ignorance via crass and unintelligent remarks.
No surprise there than.
Perhaps I know exactly why this thread is important, why people maintain, and try to overpower dissent. Why they support partial advocacy of agendas based on their affiliations, whilst ignoring or side lining issues or behavour they do not understand or consider important. Women are still having to struggle against terrible injustice and discrimination. No doubt. That is why such advocacy and such action days are skilful.
How so?
I feel it is very much about human behavour. I am not quite clear what is surprising to you?
I consider the advocacy of women of prime import. I also consider that the issues, blind spots and insights are based on our experiences as people.
Frankly I am surprised in this instance that what I say is misconstrued or maybe not so surprised . . .
It worked, a few years later they elected a female president and I think they still lead in equality world wide.
Pretty nifty.
What about the men who support women - where do they rest their loving heads?
Anataman, head straight to a fallout shelter!
Do you mean a loving bosom? @vinlyn
Well, actually you -- perhaps unintentionally -- bring up an interesting question. Today I hosted a card party with 9 women and 2 men. Of the 9 women, more than half never worked out of the home during their married lives. The other (less than) half had careers (now retired). We usually think of working women when we discuss the advancement of women, but what about the large number of women who have spent their life being "wives". And, yes, I know such women do not just sit in a chaise lounge all day.
John Major (former UK Prime Minister) once declared that if every "stay-at-home" wife was actually paid a living wage for being at home and being a housewife, the treasury would go bankrupt overnight.
I can agree with that.
The situation I was thinking about was back when I was still teaching, and for a few years I was a building rep for our teacher's union. Each year when contract negotiations would occur there would be a very distinct breakdown:
Elementary schools would vote against any type of job action.
High schools would vote in favor of job actions.
Middle schools would vote in a middle, fairly evenly split on the subject.
So we did some meetings about why this pattern occurred every year. What we found was:
Elementary schools were made up mostly of female teachers whose income was supplemental to supporting their family, while their husbands were the main wage earners. Thus, they had little desire to rock the boat in terms of relations with the school board.
High schools had a much higher percentage of teachers who were male and the primary wage-earners in their family, or female teachers who had more specific degrees (such as science or mathematics) that could translate into jobs outside of teaching. Thus, they were willing to rock the boat more in terms of fighting for higher wages and better benefits.
Middle schools were a fairly even mix of primary and supplemental wage earners in their families. Thus their middle view of job actions to promote higher salaries and better benefits.
I don't really know where I'm going with this. Perhaps just thinking aloud about the various degrees in which different women approach professional advancement.
Meanwhile, on the job front....