Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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.voiceoffreedom.ca March 8th, 2020, is International Women’s Day. This year, leading up to the day, on the day of, and even the day after, we see planned protests around the world saying “Enough!” to violence and gender inequality. The passion for this change comes from escalating violence and a collective heart conscious desire for Love […]
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme is #EachforEqual https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme An equal world is an enabled world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can actively choose to broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender-equal world. […]
Women’s International Day, 2018 About International Women’s Day https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on March 8. The day has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911. The day is not country, group or organization specific – and belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. Gloria Steinem, world-renowned […]
Two articles on sport-wide and individual victories. CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms By Signa Butler, CBC, March 06, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/iwd/cbc-sports-commits-to-gender-balanced-sports-coverage-1.5487976 ‘One of the critical pieces to keeping girls in sport is representation’ All it took for Olympic moguls champion Jennifer Heil to get into sports was a Sports Illustrated cover at […]
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 4, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/afghan-women-us-taliban-deal/index.html Washington (CNN) One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an uncertain future in the wake of the US-Taliban agreement. […]
“No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street. “A country without women, for one day. “An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the […]
Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, Sexual Abuse In Mixed Verdict Colin Dwyer and Vanessa Romo, National Public Radio, February 24, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rglkul7 Editor’s note: This report includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault accusations. Updated at 3:42 p.m. ET A Manhattan jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual abuse but acquitted him […]
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 […]
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 […]
Associated Press, Feb. 7, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/tblr886 The spaceflyer spent nearly 11 months in orbit, setting a new record for longest spaceflight by a woman. MOSCOW — NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday along with two of […]
I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. To be honest I don’t think I’ve ever watched the Super Bowl. But this morning looking at the GoodNewsNetwork Morning Jolt of Good News, giggling my way through a post called, “13 of the Best Super Bowl Ads, In Case You Missed Them,” I came across this: Katie […]
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 […]
(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 […]
