A baby girl born today will still have to confront inequality and discrimination, no matter where she lives. Women are 14 times more likely to die in a disaster than men, over 50 percent of working women have vulnerable, informal jobs with no benefits, and two thirds of the world’s illiterate are women. At the…
I love this woman. We’re going to have many Guest Slots for her.
Emma Watson has become a sudden feminist icon in Hollywood, but she explained that it wasn’t something she had to think too much about. Just last month, Watson gave a speech to the United Nations about gender inequality around the world, which launched a campaign called #HeForShe. Kristen Stewart and 5 other surprising celeb comments…
Is Common Core a Path To Greater Equality?
With Common Core many schools which did not have the funds or resources now have an abundance of quality materials, books and lessons, they never could have afforded before.
OpenEducation is providing materials at quality levels that even the best private schools would balk at, in terms of purchasing equal quality.
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I first heard about The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan the night of it’s UK launch when Girl Lost in the City blogger, Emma Gannon, tweeted about how the book was one of the best things she’d read all year. I was intrigued. Emma is clearly a lover of books,…
“…a lot of us just don’t want to be associated with a supposed movement that has no unifying theme except for seeming both anti-man and against any woman who disagrees on the topic of what feminism means.” ~ Salma Heyak “I am not a feminist,” Hayek told People magazine before accepting an award from Equality…
I’ve been reading Treaty and Equal Rights Convention papers and UN Women papers for the last two days and it crossed my mind that I haven’t noted a single line of description which says, “We have the Human Right not to be offended.” With that being such a primary Feminist stage, perhaps I missed it? Is…
I’ve been working all day, researching, pushing posts and twitters out, bugging people for their opinion — following up on our last Guest Speaker’s question, “What is Equality?” We should know the answer to this, don’t you think? I mean, how are you going to know if there is progress if you don’t know what…
Gender Equality just got a little more complicated, or perhaps just got a wakeup call. Emma, in her speech suggested that gender needs to be looked at with a little more fluidity. Seems FaceBook took her to heart and just added 50 gender choices to their profiles pages. That’s a fairly broad spectrum. PBS has…
Meet my new friend pikasauni. She lives in Finland, a country who is number two on the list of countries for its level of gender equality. It is also one of the best educating countries in the world and currently one of the wealthiest… and I’m thinking those three things have some commonalities. Anyway, I don’t…
This isn’t our regular subject area but I felt that some of you would find the matter interesting. It appears that teens are far more aware of privacy issues with their mobile devices then what common knowledge suggests. Many parents, on discovering some of the open purges of information on their teen tend to freak…
Brussels Griffon x 2 I met on the g+ network. She is participating in the Write A Novel challenge which happens every November (Write a Novel Month). I read a couple of her posts and noticed that she was also taken by Emma’ s HeForShe speech. So, I asked her if she would post her…
Ms Young, a contributing editor for Reason Magazine wrote an article which Time put on their website, entitled “Sorry, Emma Watson, but HeForShe Is Rotten for Men” If you are not prone to falling down after be assaulted by demagoguery or fall victim to vomiting when experiencing violent twists of logic, then give it a…
Introduction by Glenn Hefley This is our first submission on the Current State of things. I’m exceedingly grateful that Parriah offered this piece to us. You’re probably wondering why if you’ve skimmed the title and got a brief lay of the post. The reasoning isn’t difficult. Anytime you are going to spread the word (Marketing) you…
A woman, who is strong enough to request this, should be granted the respect of doing so. I know very little about the Secret Keepers. From her post I gathered a internal vision, but I plan on researching as soon as this post is sent. I do hope and even pray that this outcry will…
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” ― Mark Twain
“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.” ― Anaïs Nin “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” ― Anaïs Nin “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on…
“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.” — Anaïs Nin
“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle…. Celebration is a confrontation,…
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth…
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