Category Archives: Gender and Equality

The ultimate distraction.

What keeps women from gaining 50 % possession of positions like CEO, professor, writer, politician, general, engineer, and physicist? What keeps women from debunking stereotypes that limit women’s behavior to sex, domestic upkeep, and motherhood?
We get tired from fighting “fat”  and “ugly” all the time. We get distracted by our love-handles and our outdated purses. We get [...]

Beyond Oreos

 
I was just in Hawaii for vacation last week. It was a beautiful time for me to rest and enjoy the unbelievable sunshine and landscape of Lanai Island. I got time to recharge and to re-set myself in hopes of resting and coming back to work with fresh insight and a more centered sense of [...]

Biological Benefactors: How male privilege has been reinforced by the faulty belief that men are physically stronger than women

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I am not sure how old I was when I was first told that “boys are stronger than girls”, or when that notion transformed itself into the endemic belief that “men are stronger than women”. I certainly don’t remember a time when I was [...]

Not all who own ovaries are feminist.

“I was the first American Citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.” -Shirley Chisholm
The patriarchal anxiety of [...]