Feminism for the Win

"I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves." Rebecca Ly // Ms. Jennings // World History II // Period 6

[lady-reckless]

[feminism-fever]

Works Cited:

- O'Brien, Sara Ashley. "78 Cents on the Dollar: The Facts about the Gender Wage Gap." CNNMoney. Cable News Network, 14 Apr. 2015. Web. 16 Dec. 2015. - "Fact: Amazing Achievements by Women." Likes.com. MyLikes Inc., n.d. Web. 16 Dec. 2015. - Baig, Mehroz. "Women in the Workforce: What Changes Have We Made?" The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 19 Dec. 2013. Web. 16 Dec. 2015.

[micdotcom]

You’d think more than a year after this interaction, people would learn to stop asking female cosmonauts sexist questions. And yet, here we are. Russia is sending an all-female group into a space simulation — and not only were they just asked how they’d get by without makeup, but what they’d do without men. They shut it down just as quickly.

[womeninspace]

Anita Sengupta, Aerospace Engineer

Anita Sengupta is an aerospace engineer working at NASA. She has led several design team and is now working an ultra cold quantum gas facility.

Read her story here, or look her up on twitter.

[jaladiya]

notable south asian americans → Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla is the 1st Indian American astronaut and 1st Indian woman in space.

Born in Karnal, India, on July 1, 1961, Chawla was the youngest of four children. 

Chawla obtained a degree in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College before immigrating to the United States and becoming a naturalized citizen in the 1980s. She earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado in 1988, having previously obtained her masters degree from the University of Texas. She began working at NASA’s Ames Research Center the same year, working on power-lift computational fluid dynamics.

In 1994, Chawla was selected as an astronaut candidate. After a year of training, she became a crew representative for the Astronaut Office EVA/Robotics and Computer Branches, where she worked with Robotic Situational Awareness Displays and tested software for the space shuttles.

Chawla’s first opportunity to fly in space came in November 1997, aboard the space shuttle Columbia on flight STS-87.

In 2000, Chawla was selected for her second voyage into space, serving again as a mission specialist on STS-107 in the Columbia space shuttle. The mission was delayed several times, and finally launched in 2003. Over the course of the 16-day flight, the crew completed more than 80 experiments.

Chawla and the 6 other crew members died on February 1, 2003 while Columbia was attempting to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere.

Over the course of her two missions, Chawla logged 30 days, 14 hours, and 54 minutes in space. After her first launch, she said, “When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.”

(via Nola Taylor Redd)

[think-progress]

The Gender Wage Gap Screws Women All The Way To Retirement

When men and women’s incomes and retirement savings are stacked up against their projected health care costs and life expectancies, women are much farther behind men. At the same time, women will end up needing to make their money stretch further.

A new report from Financial Finesse found that both genders won’t have enough to replace at least 70 percent of their income in retirement. But 45-year-old men today who will retire at age 65 will fall $212,256 short, while women will be behind by $268,404.

[sci-universe]

I recently shared some awesome pics of Earth and now I want to dedicate a post about the person who took them: Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut of the European Space Agency. Samantha (born in 1977) always dreamed of reaching the skies and is a devoted science-fiction fan from her childhood years. She put her dreams into practice by studying aerospace engineering in several universities around the world:

In 2001, she graduated from the Technische Universität Munich, Germany, with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and specialisations in aerospace propulsion and lightweight structures.

As part of her studies, she spent four months in France, working on an experimental project in aerodynamics.

She wrote her master’s thesis on solid rocket propellants during a 10-month research stay at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technologies in Moscow, Russia.

As soon as the Italian air force opened application to women, Samantha was one of the first to apply. As part of her training at the Italian Air Force Academy, she completed an additional bachelor’s degree in aeronautical sciences in 2005, and pilot training.

Her career in the force saw her log over 500 hours with many military aircraft and she is now a captain of the Italian air force. 

In 2009 she was one of the six chosen from 8000 European applicants to join the ESA astronaut corps.

Samantha is now working and living on the International Space Station as part of her 5-month-long Futura mission. you can follow her on twitter and facebook

[feminism-fever]

@ government

The world would be such a better place if men were not treated as superior beings, and that women were given the same opportunities and were treated the same. This means that women should have equal rights in education, business and government. Society would benefit from equality of men and women. 

[feminism-fever]

Who ever said that girls don’t/can’t read??? 

*side eyes Rousseau*

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  

Pictures Taken by: Eric Nguyen

[feminism-fever]

78 CENTS OF A DOLLAR

While the most common jobs for females are; secretaries, nurses and elementary school teachers, the most common jobs for men are; drivers, sales workers, and managers. The 78 cents statistic doesn't take into account job choice, education, experience, tenure or hours worked. However, even with specific occupations, the wage gap is present. For example, more than 70% of elementary and middle school teachers are female, while male teachers earn a median of $1,096 a week, whereas women earn $956 -- about 87 cents to the man's dollar! The gap is even worse in some other professions. In retail sales, women earn 70 cents to the dollar, and among full-time lawyers, women earn 83 cents. A few cents may not seem like a big difference. However, they quickly add up. According to The Ladders, “in a technical director role, women earn less than six figures ($97,817) while a man with the same title will earn nearly $40,000 more a year. In an accountant role, there's a $32,578 salary gap.” Unfortunately, for some women, it’s even worse! Black women make 64 cents and Latinas make 56 cents for every dollar earned by a white man. Additionally, some mothers tend to make less than women who do not have any children. The wage gap is extremely ridiculous and completely unfair!

Picture Credit: CNN

[ultrafacts]

Now at the age of 13, she had already: Attended Space Camp 7 times, Space Academy 3 times and Robotics Academy 1 time. Became the first person to complete all the NASA Space Camps in the world, including Space Camp Turkey and Space Camp Canada. Witness 3 Space Shuttle launches. Attend Sally Ride Camp at MIT, and three Sally Ride Day camps. Speak several foreign languages: Spanish, French, Chinese and some Turkish. She also delivers motivational speeches to other children.

She is determined to be the first person to land on Mars & NASA is already training her.

(Fact Sources: 1 2) Follow Ultrafacts for more facts

[anarcho-smarmyism]

GET IT GIRL BE THE FIRST PERSON ON MARS OWN THAT SHIT I BELIEVE IN YOU DO IT DO IT DO IT

[feminism-fever]

@ Rousseau, remember when you said that girls are not interested in learning how to read or write, and that females are not capable of scientific thought? Well, you are wrong. Look at this girl here. She is already accomplishing such amazing things while you just sit there and criticize women. You say that “the search for abstract and speculative truths for principles and axioms in science, for all that tends to wide generalizations, is beyond a woman’s grasp.” If that’s the case, then please explain how there are female astronauts, female astrophysicists, and how females hold other jobs in scientific fields.

[feminism-fever]

The Fault in your Theory @ Rousseau

Rousseau: Little girls have always disliked learning to read and write. Thus, women are not capable of (scientific) thought and can not achive great things!!

Wollstonecraft: JK Rowling became a billionaire novelist after her Harry Potter books became a worldwide sensation.

Rousseau: Ok, but men will always be more superior than women.

Wollstonecraft: Poet and playwright Carol Ann Duffy was selected as the first female Poet Laurette, England's most prestigious poetry title -- after 400 years of male domination.

Rousseau: ...

Wollstonecraft: Director Kathryn Bigelow's film garnered six Oscars. Bigelow toke home the Best Director award, beating out former husband, James Cameron.

Rousseau: ...

Rousseau: THAT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING! MEN ARE SUPERIOR BEINGS.

Wollstonecraft: ...

Wollstonecraft: *drops mic*

Rebecca: Your #MasculinitySoFragile that you have to comfort yourself by saying that men are better...

Rousseau: WHAT DID YOU SAY?? DID YOU JUST SAY THAT MY MASCULINITY IS FAKE? DO I NOT LOOK MANLY TO YOU? DO YOU THINK I AM WEAK?

Rebecca: Your negative response to #MasculinitySoFragile is a perfect example of how masculinity is so fragile.

Wollstonecraft: *drops mic again*

[micdotcom]

Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men 

Out of the 22 people running for president in 2016, only two of them are women. Elle U.K. is confronting this imbalance directly through the magazine’s #MoreWomen campaign, launched on Oct. 1 to celebrate women’s global power. Their eye-opening launch video shows how easy it is to make full rooms seemingly sparse.

[sciencetylia]

#GirlsWithToys hashtag - part 18

View my other posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7,Part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16 and part 17.

The Part 1 link has a link explaining what this hashtag is about, but in short: the hashtag was born out of casual sexism by a male scientist.

[womeninspace]

Sally Ride with an early Space Shuttle helmet.

Source: SDASM Archives

[socimages]

Children, chores, and the gender pay gap at home.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

Girls do more chores than boys and are less likely to get an allowance in exchange for their work. When they do, they are paid less.

Research projects on children’s time use find that boys do 43 to 46 minutes of housework for every hour that girls do. When asked to list the chores they do, girls list 42 percent more chores than boys. Girls are as likely as boys to participate in outside chores and more likely to clean their own rooms, help prepare meals, and care for sibling and pets; the only thing boys report doing more often than girls is basic housecleaning.

Another study by the children’s magazine Highlights confirmed the finding: 73 percent of their girl readers reported being assigned routine chores, compared to 65 percent of their boy readers. Girls spend more time on chores than they do playing; the opposite is true for boys.

Not only are girls more likely to be asked to help out around the house, they are less likely to get paid. The Michigan study found that boys are 15 percent more likely than girls to get an allowance for the chores they do. And when they do get paid, they get a lower wage than their brothers. Male babysitters get paid $0.50 more an hour than females. Girls do 35 percent more work than boys, but bring home only $0.73 cents on boys’ dollar.

The gender pay gap starts early.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.