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This is Tom talking about gender in retail and management. Tom says that he experienced verbalized gender biases and even recalls a higher-up telling him only to hire married women. This interview sheds light on how stereotypes are not harmless: that with the power of stereotyping, the wage gap widens.
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In this video, Liam talks about gender dynamics in the tech world. According to him, the software development field has been built around male-centric nerd culture that has not been friendly to women. He says that, in his experience, this harmful and problematic gender dynamic involves a lot of implicit bias of women needing help and being less likely to be in leadership. He thinks that programs for women in tech are important, but thinks it needs to start much earlier.
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A Letter To My Parents
Dear Mami y Papi,
I don’t blame you. How can I?
You guys grew up in a small pueblo where small-minded ideas grew and were cultivated.
Ideas that seemed harmless, but were in fact damaging to yourselves. Sort of like pesticide covered roses.
Speaking the language of past generations because it was the only thing that made sense in the machista world you guys lived in.
Phrases like, “ Para, no eres niña” or “ Como te vas a casar si no sabes calentar tortillas.”
As if straying from gender roles were a way of bringing shame to the family. Which, in most cases, it was.
I don’t blame you for limiting me for being a woman.
I understand where you are coming from when you say I shouldn’t be out late alone or even when you say I shouldn’t be alone in a room full of guys.
You’re just trying to do your job as a parent to protect your daughter and prevent whatever danger that can come across.
You have lived in a world where women were seen as fragile flowers who needed protecting.
But.
Words passed down generation will be retorted with more liberal views shaped from the world I currently live in.
Phrases that limit me because of my gender will be answered with questions on how it exactly does this shame the family.
Slowly uncovering the hypocritical, illogical layers these phrases were earthed upon.
I know that you see it more protecting rather than limiting. But you can only protect me from so much.
I don’t need protection. I need support. When things do get bad, I need to know that you will be there. That’s when I will need you the most.
I understand you. All I ask is that you understand me too.
Sinceremente,
tu hija, Nancy.
Basically, this letter is my inner dialogue that I would want to say to my parents, but haven’t yet. Even though this is more for my personal reasons, the dialogue can illicit a response from any person who has had clashed heads with their parents. People will relate to this because I believe there is this inner battle of love/hate relationship most people have with their parents. Maybe not my letter, but the concept of understanding both sides of the problem can help make people better advocates for gender justice. Just because you understand something, does not mean that you have to agree with it.
Creative Artwork
My artwork represents the typical division of labor in MY family, and many families of our same class and in our home area. I realize that this is not the case for everyone, I just wanted to show the issues that I see within my own family and that I have noticed among other families as well.
I hope this drawing will make people more aware of the problem that many working women of today’s society face, including my mother. Unequal division of labor in the home traces its roots to the 1950′s housewife image and is still very present today. I hope this artwork provokes thought and emotion in my audience. I hope people can better understand the frustration and unfairness when able to view something visually. I hope people will simply take this issue into consideration when starting their own families and raising their own children. That is the best way to become the change and move towards ending this form of gendered oppression.
- Maddy Wilson
This piece is addressing the problems with narratives of eating disorders as my project is, but this specifically tackles the images and art we see associated with eating disorders. If one googles “eating disorder art”, they would see black and white pictures of skinny white girls. The underlay image is one I took documenting my own illness in 2009. It was meaningful for me to document myself and have a way to physically see my current state as a photographer. I think a lot of other girls do this as well, and that’s where we get all of these shocking and similar images. However, there is a lack of other narratives, true narratives of people struggling who don’t look like they are or don’t fit the profile. I included quotes and images related to some surrounding images that help construct eating disorders and affect the lives of their sufferers, including abuse, assault, female subjectivity, white supremacy, stereotypes, misogyny, and layered systemic oppressions. I want my audience to engage with this piece and think about all of the things they haven’t thought about in relation to eating disorders and eating disorder sufferers. All of these things play into one’s body consciousness and internalized oppressions, but rarely are these things discussed in the mainstream conversation of eating disorders. I hope it will influence my audience to feel moved to see eating disorders as complex, debilitating problems that they should advocate about, not just a “vanity” issue, and I hope that they will feel the sense that systems can do physical harm to women, and understand why I view eating disorders as a systemic form of violence against women.
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Creative post. 12th post My plan in the beginning wasn’t to put a barcode on her cheek. But the reason I chose to put the barcode as well with the sign on her forehead saying “Not For Sale” was because I realized that I wanted to contradict my drawing. I wanted her to put herself out there stating that she isn’t for sale but at the end people will always buy her. My topic is on sex trafficking and I wanted my drawing to put out a clear, strong statement that while a woman is not for sale and she shouldn’t be for sale, men will always purchase her. And think she’s just an object. Use her and then throw her away and on to the next one. I wanted to make this drawing a powerful one and let people know that there are so many women like this one in this drawing that are on the same situation. getting sold to other people, getting transported to other countries like a piece of meat. Sex trafficking is a serious issue and extremely controversial and contradicting. People know that it happens and it exists but don’t do anything about it. Sex slavery is suppose to be illegal and in every type of way wrong yet no one really cares. That’s why I want this drawing to stand out. Her eyes are droopy and her lips are broken. She’s a disaster but yet she’s just an object to other people. DR
I wrote this poem to express the dynamics of psychiatric wards. I chose to hand write the piece with a crayon because I was inspired by a woman’s story of being in a psych ward with denied access to a pen and paper, so she wrote with a crayon in the margins of books that were granted to her after begging a few nurses for them.They thought she might try to use a pen to harm herself, though it was felt tip. I think that if a person wants to write they should. It’s very therapeutic and necessary for some. I wrote the poem in rhyme as a stylistic choice because in the nineteenth century it was common to have girls in school who would have to memorize songs or limericks because this was believed to be the only way to teach girls. This was satirized in common tales of women’s mental health like in the story of Alice in Wonderland.
I hope the audience thinks about women who have done time in these institutions, when sanity can neither be proved nor disapproved and is a subjective concept used to oppress and capitalize on pharmaceutical drug industries. I hope the audience would feel enlightened if they aren’t and however else they want to feel about it. I the the audience does interact with the piece at the very least and further research the issues within the system on their free time if they are intrigued to do so. My artwork should help my audience become a better advocate for gender justice because women’s basic human rights are being taken away under this institution and everything about their lives are being controlled.
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Originally, I wanted to draw a white person from a donor agency handing books to a group of local girls in a developing country with a thought bubble coming from the white person. In the thought bubble, I was going to indicate that they thought they were white saviors. I wanted to illustrate the white savior industrial complex but I lack the artistic ability to draw people. So instead I focused on hands. I drew two people holding hands because I wanted to signify the importance that to cause social change, we need allies of every background. I intentionally didn’t color in the hands because I wanted the viewer to be able to identify with the picture without having restrictions on race, sex, etc. I made the background pink/orange/yellow because my focus was specifically on women’s right to education. I also associated that with a sunset and that its time for change, “a new day.”
I chose hands because they’re such a useful tool but they are taken for granted. My research was on the access to education in developing countries and I can think of hands in a new perspective because of that. By that I mean that with hands, we are able to grasp pens and write. In almost all of the pictures of education I came across, they were of schoolchildren reading or writing. One of my favorite quotes from Malala Yousafazi is “One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.” Not only are hands a tool for education, but they are the source of livelihoods for people in developing countries because their jobs are labor-intensive. Because of manual labor, hands can also tell stories because of the scars, callouses, and lines that grow as one gets older. I believe that equipping a child with a pen is more beneficial to everyone than giving them a hammer or mop.
Personal Post
Text. Call. Uber. Emergency. Walking. Open curtains. Tears. Blur. Gowns. Screams. Speculum. Blame. Questions. Pills. Pills. Pills. Shots. Detective. Blame. Beat officer. Blame. Nurse. Blame. Nurse. Blame. Physician. Blame. Crying. Crying. Shaking. Exams. Pills. Pills. Detective. Crying. Sobbing. Clothes. Underwear. Nurse. Water Food. Relief.
What I am hoping that people will feel from this post is an interesting perspective on what it is like to be in the shoes of a survivor in the emergency room. Often times it seems very quick and you can only speak in short bursts. This relates to the class because there is victim blaming within the medical profession and it can be extremely difficult to feel comfortable receiving care.
Creative Artwork Post #12- Choreography to Pretty Hurts by Beyoncé Knowles
I choreographed to Beyoncé‘s song Pretty Hurts. I picked this song, because it’s extremely powerful in the lyrics. The lyrics express how our society solely focuses on looks in social media and the detrimental effects trying to achieve perfection has on young girls and women of all ages. I chose to dance, because I wanted to contribute my own passion, which is a positive attribute in my life and makes me feel beautiful. I wanted to combine the emotions of the lyrics and my own personal feelings of insecurities and body shaming through art. Song and dance is a powerful way to get people to listen and watch. I hope other individuals who watch this will take away the message that everyone has had their own fair share of ups and downs, and that they are not alone in this chaotic world. I want people to hear the lyrics and rejoice to empower one another and understand that the outside exterior is not the only way to feel beautiful. Your individuality, your passion, your triumphs, your self-expression, and your lessons from failure define you as a beautiful human being; and remember, life would be extremely boring if everyone was exactly the same.
Chorus Lyrics:
Pretty hurts Shine the light on whatever’s worse Perfection is the disease of a nation Pretty hurts Shine the light on whatever’s worse Tryna fix something But you can’t fix what you can’t see It’s the soul that needs the surgery
The pay gap in the U.S.
I’ll admit, when I started this project I was mostly thinking about myself, my experiences and how it would affect me in the future. I expected the results and the proof of discrimination to be readily available and that wasn’t the case. The murky waters of injustice obscure the vision and the loud voices of the oppressors silence the already quiet ones. I found many articles denying gender discrimination even exists, that the low income women often achieve is the result of choice, their choice, not of others choosing for them.
I disagree with that. From my childhood I remember stereotypes ingrained in my memory: “this is not what girls do” or “stay with me in the kitchen, how else are you going to learn to cook for your husband”, things my mother would say, probably because that’s how she was taught as well.
With that upbringing and many other examples of gender role enforcement, how are we not at a disadvantage compared to men?
I would like you to think about your own examples, perhaps forgotten, when you found out that you had different options than men and be an advocate for social justice by encouraging young girls to follow whatever dream they have and young boys that we are all equal.
Poem
I am lost
I don’t know where I am going
So I rebell
I act up to receive attention
I act up so someone can help me
But, my family does not want to help me
Nor do my peers
My mentors throw me to jail
My teacher's hand me handcuff
But, I cause no mischief
I just need help
Someone help me than handing me handcuff
Someone help me then throw me in jail
I want to be successful but I am lost
please help me then throwing me in jail
please don’t judge me of my color
please treat me with equality
I just want to be equal
without being lost
help me
I don't want to be lost
I wrote this poem regarding my blog. My blog had to do with the boys of color in prison at a young age from school discipline. These young children are lost, and here are the school throwing them to detention for minor actions. Here are the officers putting them handcuff in school and it is horrible. While, the boys that are white in rich schools are doing the same actions but are just getting detentions or suspensions. This really hurts me emotionally because I want to be a teacher, and these teachers are just throwing this kids to the officers. It is horrible, I want to be a teacher that helps a child. I want to have a child be successful. That is my goal, for the future. It makes me angry, that teachers do that. Instead of giving them punishment they need to help them out. This is why I wrote this poem. I was being in shoes of a troubled boy, who no one helped out and thrown in jail.
Menstruation Shaming
Introduction
All across the world, women are shamed for a natural process their bodies go through every month. Menstruation better known as the monthly period has essentially become a taboo topic of discussion. Having a period is something that is seen as shameful and gross, something that must always be hidden and never discussed, especially in front of men. Shaming women for having periods is just one of the many methods patriarchy uses to make women believe they are subordinate to men and that men have what is considered normal body functions while women are still seen as other or a “mystery.” Period Shaming is a tool of gendered oppression and something many women continue to feel and fear as they progress through their lives. I’m interested in this topic because I realized I have been conditioned to be ashamed of anything having to do with my period as well as many other women have. Even buying pads has sometimes been a sort of stealth mission that I never questioned. The topic of Period Shaming has been increasingly relevant in the news. One of the many stories that broke social consciousness was a woman who had got her period on the day she was supposed to run a marathon. Instead of wearing a tampon however, she elected to run without a tampon or pad. This story made many headlines and drew many negative comments as well, from men and women. On this blog I want to further explore just why periods are so unmentionable and how this mindset negatively impacts women everywhere.
By MB
I agree with you 100%, throughout my life I been shamed for having my period. it was embarrassing because my own mother would try to hide it from the men in the house because it would be embarrassing, I like how you state that you should not be shameless about it and I completely agree with that. I also agree with you that men shall not shame women for having periods, this has been going on for such a long time and it should be stopped. Just because a women has her period it does not mean she is not equal or less of a human for having it.
9th post, solutions
A way in which this problem of ‘marianismo’ and ‘machismo’ to be solved is by eliminating the gendered roles in the house, allowing the children to get hobbies, and parent’s treating the children equally. Also, elementary schools providing short basic English classes while the students are in school to their mothers.When the children see that both mother and father do tasks, instead of having them do certain tasks, they will see their gender not having a specific role. This was seen in the last post, how gender roles limit the person. It will also allow them to learn how to take care of themselves in the future without the need of another person of the opposite sex. By allowing children to get hobbies, they will be exposed to things outside of the home. If they choose something artistic, they will have a way to vent and be able to create things. If they choose to do something athletic, they will be able to be fit and also be able to vent their emotions through there. The key would be to allow them to choose what they want to do and not allow the girl to only choose hobbies their gender is supposed to take on. This will allow them to be exposed to new ideas of thinking instead of making them believe the house is the only thing there is. Treating the children equally is a very important and easy way to solve oppression. The children begin to think of each other as equals and this leads to the boy not treating women as maids and the daughter to not think she should obey whatever the brother says. I believe that solving the issue of oppressed immigrant mothers is by preventing their children from being oppressed by not following the ideals that they themselves followed. Having schools providing the basic English classes would greatly benefit the immigrant women because it can potentially help them want to take longer classes to learn the language which in turn can help them get a job and understand their children.
I agree with your solutions, i feel like gender roles need to be eliminated in the house hold and the first step to making a difference should be making a difference in your house hold. There is always gender differences in the household with the daughter vs the son, and if daughter wants to do athletic sports the parents should support her. I feel like your solutions are a step way closer to get rid of the gender roles.
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Suggested Solutions
1. Raising Consciousness – As Logan said, raising consciousness among young generation to protect themselves and other’s who are facing street harassment in their lives. parents should teach their children to give, receive and understand consent. Understanding about consent and respecting other’s life will lead to growth of a generation that is socially responsible. Informed generation will always ask for permission to even touch someone else. The generation that values interpersonal relationship is always an asset for the nation.
2. Making the laws stricter and effective for protecting women- Passing criminal law that suggest measures for faster trials and stricter penalties for cruel offenses related to violence against women. Laws that is accompanied by good governance. The laws should ensure women’s safety and mobility in public spaces by creating new rules that strengthen the government system. Construction of an infrastructure that deals with the crimes supplemented by meaningful reforms in judiciary and modernization of police system across whole India.
3. Women empowerment – Instead of blaming the victim for getting harassed, the society should support her to respond to it. Creating safe environment for women and training women how to deal with the harassers. Responding to each concerns of women about their safety by law enforcement. Creating hotline phone call system to respond to any emergency help for women in public spaces. Giving education to women to how to deal with an emergency situation. Having more women police officers to patrol in nights.
4. Creating Anti-harassment organizations within community- raise awareness among the members of community through media and meetings. Sharing the experiences to avoid or prevent future harassment in public spaces.
I think these are great solutions. I feel like in south Asian countries that the laws should be more stricter and effective because the justice system over there is not as great. Also, I loved your third solution which was the Women empowerment, mainly people blame the victim and said she probably had on slutty clothes so she deserved it but the women all together should make a stance and state their safety as a concern as one. I feel like if women in India and Pakistan took a stance street calling could be stopped.
Additional Resources
- this is a video is created to support women in India and about the male criticism on women’s dressing style. It would be helpful to understand the mentality of men towards women in India.
-The video concerns with the laxmi’s fight to prevent acid attacks on women. It also helps to understand the story of her too.
http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=755006069070005065006064023016102124054081028050051017127068088125004071068091079027054000019062029017012023065092111103102108016013039080081068009084064109088110060066004021112100108027070000018021121083109089005076100022067091084075023097065064114&EXT=pdf
- It is a detailed article that deals with the acid attacks and it also covers Cambodia and Bangladesh too. It will help to analyze the problems that faced by women in different regions of the world.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/indias-daughter/
-it is a link to the documentary called “India’s Daughter.” It got banned in india for creating public outcry. It shows the story of Delhi gang rape.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/international-street-harassment-week_b_1228198.html
- the link leads you to know more suggested solutions to stop or avoid street harassment. It is important to acknowledge other possible solutions too.
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/h_women.asp
This website give information about the role of women in religious books of Hinduism. It give an idea about what roles the women had in ancient India.
- As i was talking about all the bad things happening in India, i felt it is important to express how great it is too. It is a great place to visit.
I really like your blog, and the way you expressed it was really awesome. I am from Pakistan, and even though my whole life I haven’t visited there my cousins and family members would tell me the guys are pigs over there because all they do is stare a women down. My cousin that live in Pakistan said that we would not let his sister go out by herself because the men would just street call. If there is a man by her side, then the men wouldn’t dare to look at her. I think it is the same with India looking at your blog, and street harassment is completely not fair specially to the women that have to deal with it.
Introduction
The issue that I want to approach is the oppression of Mexican immigrant women in the family. I chose this topic because I was raised in a Mexican immigrant family and I have seen first hand how the women are treated. Although both men and women come for a better life, women are forced to stick to the customs that they were brought up with. The men, however, are allowed to be changed by the American culture and better themselves. While growing up, we would go to Mexico every summer and I would see the way that my female family members were raised. When I would come back to the U.S. it seemed right for my mom to do the same exact things they did and be treated the same way. As I grew older, I felt that she should be allowed to steer away from that path because now she has more opportunities. The men in my family disagree and still feel that no matter where the women are, that is the person that they were always meant to be. However, men are able to come and become the men they always dreamed of. Men feel as though they are in complete control of the women and they make it known to their children. They do this by undermining what their wives have said and even make fun of their wives to their children. I do not agree with this and feel that these women come for better lives and they should do more than just stay at home and wait for their husbands just because that is what they would be doing in Mexico. Women crossed the border in order to end the oppression that they were living in, and they only come to find that in America they live under the same oppression in their families.
I think this topic is very crucial in our society because of all the political issues going on throughout the national debates of how immigration and illegal immigrants should be treated. I myself can relate really well to this piece because my mother and father both immigrated to the United States in order to find a better life. Yet, they have found it difficult at times to be treated fairly, especially my mother. I really enjoyed this blog post and can’t wait to read what other research findings you found.
I completely agree with you on this topic, my mother came to Pakistan for better opportunities and better jobs. She wanted to be away from the conservative life in Pakistan but growing up my father was very dominant and controlling. He thought that women should stay at home and clean, and not be educated. My mother would be the one to vouch for me all the time if I wanted to do something that was not socially acceptable in my community. My mother would state how great it would be, like taking up my first job. My father wasn't okay with it but my mother wanted me to steer away because she did not want me to go through what she did. You explained this really well, and hopefully those viewpoints change soon in society.
