Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Lockdown is resulting in an increase in domestic abuse. This is one of the gender issues that the recently-formed Equality Fund in Canada is looking at and helping with. In this article they discuss their scope and aims, especially in light of the pandemic. In a Pandemic, Gender Equality More Important Than Ever Jessica Houssian, […]
Coronavirus: When home gets violent under lockdown in Europe Natalie Higgins BBC News, Brussels, April 12, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52216966 Flags were lowered to half-mast and three days of mourning were declared in the Spanish town of Almassora to mark Carina’s death. In normal times, this community near Valencia would have gathered in silence to remember their […]
The Associated Press, March 8, 2020 Gender study finds nearly 90% of both men and women hold some kind of bias against women A woman in a gas mask attends a protest demanding equality on International Women’s Day in Paris on Sunday. The placard reads ‘Patriarchy virus. We are the antidote.’ (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Calling himself […]
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day Michael Lipin, VOA Persian service, March 08, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/activists-appear-unveiled-tehran-womens-day Small groups of Iranian women celebrated International Women’s Day by appearing publicly unveiled in Tehran and calling on Iranians to support their defiance of mandatory veiling in the Islamist nation. VOA Persian received and verified a video clip […]
From Ms. Magazine. https://tinyurl.com/t39c57t Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, almost nine out of 10 men and women around the world hold some sort of bias against women, according to new findings published on Thursday from the UN Development Programmme (UNDP). The first of its kind, the UNDP Gender Social Norms Index analyzed […]
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
Warning: This story contains graphic details By Chris Brown, CBC News, February 25, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-domestic-violence-1.5437241 Given the savagery of what Margarita Gracheva’s husband did to her, you’d think Russian lawmakers would want to stop it from happening to other women. Instead, attitudes toward legislating tougher laws on domestic violence remain stuck in another century. Two […]
Women being exploited is an age-old issue on Earth. What we’re seeing Now are innovative ways for this to stop. Also, please join 8 Minutes @ 8 AM/PM to send Love. ‘My name is Karly’: Sex trafficking victim joins police on front lines in battle against exploitation Jennifer Barr, CBC News, February 18, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/national-human-trafficking-1.5459509 […]
Overcoming the old false grids of limitation, these intrepid musicians show amazing heart. I Loved this comment from one of the judges: “If you feel like you don’t fit into this world, you were born to create a new one. . .” 6 Homeless Contestants That Inspired The World With Their Auditions 5,332,635 views • […]
By Shefali Anand, February 6, 2020, USNews https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-02-06/women-take-prominent-role-in-indias-nationwide-protests?src=usn_thereport NEW DELHI – Women have been at the forefront of protests in India against a new law, with some women literally sitting on the streets day in and day out for more than a month. The scenes across the country are part of a broader wave of […]
Work Women Don’t Get Paid For Is Worth At Least $10.8 Trillion: Study All work, no pay. Connor Garel, Huff Post, 01/27/2020 https://tinyurl.com/qss9sz5 Such is the logic of economic inequality. The world’s extreme wealth was, as we know, founded on sexism and racism. But here’s a perhaps less universally known truth: women and girls are […]
(Concluded from Part 3, yesterday.) Free study of the Divine Mother and her Plan for the Golden Age, attached below. How the Two Work Together How do the Divine Feminine and Masculine work together in the balanced, androgynous person? Archangel Michael tells us that the stillness that the Divine Masculine fuels the movement of love […]
(Continued from Part 2, yesterday.) Ascendancy Must Go Let’s return now to the discussion of the end of male dominance. Matthew Ward says that male ascendancy (or patriarchy) must go and this is not an insult to men: “The high vibrations of feminine energy coming in are ending long ages of masculine energy’s dominance on […]
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The Use of the Gender Metaphor Before we go further, let’s look at the use of the gender metaphor to describe levels of Reality far beyond gender. The formless God is not a man and God in form is not a woman. So why use a gender metaphor to represent […]
Male Dominance Ending I feel awkward turning to a male to describe the resurgence of the Divine Feminine. Please excuse me for doing so. Matthew Ward asserts that the culture of male dominance is ending: “The feminine, or goddess energy that is pouring in to balance the masculine energy that dominated Earth’s residents for millennia […]
