Thanksgiving spurs donations to hunger drives. But experts say charity isn’t the solution. What’s needed is an increase of the power of women, the malnourished majority in both the United States and around the world.
On Thanksgiving, cooking the feast remains women’s work for those who get paid top dollar and for those who do it without pay. Could it be because the holiday is really about maintaining relationships? Also, thousands in Mexico protest unsolved murders.
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, an agreement was reached to promote clean water and sanitation facilities throughout developing nations, a pact that could have a profound impact on women’s lives.
Experts at a conference on “Women and Girls in the High Tech Economy” called for a drive to train more women and girls, saying that though business now is sluggish, the economy will rebound and business will be inseparable from technology.
In 300 A.D., a Christian priest named Valentine became a saint through beheading. Now a popular book urges all wives to do the same–become a “Surrendered Wife” who loses her head, cares not about family finances and learns the value of submission.
Women are working working working at paid jobs in this economic boom. And hurray for our economic independence. But, by the way, who is doing the shopping, cooking and cleaning for this holiday? Here are some ingredients to lighten the load.
Photos of successful male athletes overwhelmingly show them in serious, action poses, while powerhouse women are often trivialized, romanticized, and sexualized. Experts say their depictions have become increasingly degrading.
Once it was women athletes and their coaches suing under Title IX to ensure that women had equal access to college educational and sports facilities. Now men and their coaches are lobbying Congress, saying that women’s advances have unjustly deprived men.
Panelists agreed that the female electorate does not vote as one. Women do care more about education and health care than male voters, they explain, but they differ dramatically about policy preferences and priorities.
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