All Entries in the "Equality" Category
One Long Hard Look in the Mirror
I read two excellent posts today that I wanted to highlight because the same considerations have crossed my mind. The thought process usually begins with “What the hell are they thinking?” and ends with me shaking my head and trying to ponder how so many archaic sexist attitudes are still considered the norm in our [...]
Scrubbing The Sticky Floor
Failure is a means to spur us on to create something better. Something more successful. When I realized my marriage failed to provide me with what I needed to be a happy, whole person, I spent a lot of time thinking (much of it in bed) trying to determine what I could have / should [...]
Dear Woman – A Manifesto for Conscious Men
The following video was sent to me by email. I watched it with interest, appreciating the intended message, but it left me feeling mildly uncomfortable. There have been many extreme reactions to this video. The issue that many people have – and the one that left me feeling uncomfortable – is making all men responsible [...]
Busyness as a Badge of Honor aka Who Made You Sheriff?
There are some fantastic lines in this article by Christine Arylo who says her primary objective is to get women and girls to fall madly in love with themselves. In the article she says, “Forget Generation X or Y, how about calling us Generation E, for Exhausted!” So true. I was born on the tail [...]
Women’s Right to Vote
Today was my first time voting as a US citizen. I left Canada in 1999 and haven’t voted since, which started me thinking about the women who worked hard to give me that right in the first place. I found the following video on the history of women’s right to vote in the U.S.A. I [...]
Flying Under Bridges
My neighbor borrowed the audio book Flying Under Bridges (affiliate link) from the library and found herself laughing out loud in her car while she listened. Knowing I was a huge Shirley Valentine fan, she loaned me the discs when she finished with them. She was right, I loved it! Flying Under Bridges is a [...]
Is This The End of Men?
“What if the modern, postindustrial economy is simply more congenial to women than to men? For a long time, evolutionary psychologists have claimed that we are all imprinted with adaptive imperatives from a distant past: men are faster and stronger and hardwired to fight for scarce resources, and that shows up now as a drive [...]
The World Needs Different Kinds of Minds
There are many forms of inequality. One is to assume that one type of learning style or ability is better or more beneficial than another. I disagree. There is a purpose for every person on our planet, we need to determine what that purpose is rather than requiring they become something they’re not. This process [...]
All the Wrinkled Ladies: Equal Media Time
Growing up I’d hoped that society would catch onto the unrealistic stereotypes that media promotes through advertising. While managing retail boutiques in the 80′s I knew then that our size 12 to 16′s sold out a lot faster than our size 6 to 10′s. Most women didn’t look like the emaciated models that were on [...]
International Women’s Day Celebrates Past Present and Future
International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Women have many achievements to be proud of. The equality we enjoy is the result of the work of women (and men) before us. And yet, even in North America, many of us experience the residual discrimination leftover from [...]