Month: October 2017

Topic

I want to also focus on the outcome the here and now of women fighting for their place in the workplace and what that means for my generation

Possible Attention Strategies:

Quote “It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.” (The Atlantic)

Video: show jellybean video of how many minutes in life

Question: How many of you believe that you can have it all the family, the career everything? Well guess what you only have 24 hours in a day so how are you going to spend it?

Personal story: about why I want to become a lawyer and why I have these dreams what they mean to me what I want to achieve…

Main Idea: Women in the legal profession hold tremendous power to enact and make change happen I believe that the change starts with them.

Influential Lawyers in the Past

Marcia Greenberger

“I had this feeling that many of the guys in my class assumed that there was something weird about the women who went to law school, and we had to demonstrate that we were regular human beings,”

Judith Lichtman

“When I began working in the summer of 1974, I increased the number of paid lawyers working on women’s legal rights in D.C. by one-third”

Marna Tucker

:female law students had to work harder and put up with a lot.”

“We were made of a little sturdier stuff than the average male law student,” she added. “We knew we were jumping into something that was not going to be easy for us.”

Main Idea 2: What Women Need to change to have it all

“I was increasingly aware that the feminist beliefs on which I had built my entire career were shifting under my feet.”

Women have been relying on this notion in the 21st century that they can have it all when really in society they can’t

The way society is now we can’t have it all

“I’d been part, albeit unwittingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life” (The Atlantic)

Main Idea 3: Now we have a place in the workforce and the glass ceilings might not all be shattered but they are all breaking that is the what my generation has to do we have to break the glass ceiling

HOW?

-Each other

-learn from our history

-we fight to have it all

I believe that the journey ahead of us is long and hard, I believe that is will be hard but I believe that it will happen I believe that someday we will live in a world where women can have it all and maybe I’m just an optimist but I believe that anything is possible with hard work and dedication

 

 

 

Thesis: There has been a shift in the past decade women believe that they are deserving, and have the right to the same positions in the workforce as men because of this push to get women involved in the STEM, to get women involved in the workforce and into those leadership positions these are all the steps to shatter the glass ceiling.

This information sets up women’s role in stem fields now

I feel like the shift started to really come to the light as important with the NASA hidden figures, I think that this is what signified to a lot of people that there not only has been a shift but that it is here to stay like this that women now have and will continue to have an important role in the workforce particularly in the STEM fields.

Shifts I want to Talk About:

-Began with Take Your Daughter to Workday

-Women entering the workforce in the past decade

-Women in Stem

-Hidden Figures

 

Paragraph Topic:

Why Science is Important to the Future

“these young scientists and engineers teach us something beyond the specific topics that they’re exploring. They teach us how to question assumptions; to wonder why something is the way it is, and how we can make it better. And they remind us that there’s always something more to learn, and to try, and to discover, and to imagine — and that it’s never too early, or too late to create or discover something new.

That’s why we love science. It’s more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world, and to share this accumulated knowledge. It’s a mindset that says we that can use reason and logic and honest inquiry to reach new conclusions and solve big problems. And that’s what we are celebrating here today with these amazing young people.”

 

Getting Girls Involved in Stem

Evidence:

“As a country, we stand to gain a lot by exposing young girls to STEM fields and encouraging those who are interested to follow their hearts and minds. Simply focusing attention on one age group cannot cure all societal issues that influence career choices among females. Correcting the negative perceptions that girls develop at a young age can, however, lead them to embrace math and science when they reach high school, rather than avoid the subjects. Administrators and educators must strive to create environments in high school and college math and science programs that are inviting to females if we want to prevent the likelihood of their choosing a different direction. As long as young boys and girls are exposed to science and technology and are equally encouraged to study those disciplines, those with talent and a genuine interest in those fields will be able to develop that interest. Science and technology are and will continue to be important factors in what we are able to accomplish in our lifetimes.”

 

Pioneers, past and present: From top left (clockwise), Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Mary Leakey, Mae Jemison, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin

This story was updated on January 21, 2015, to include a video of the author addressing the Rosalind Franklin Society, a women’s leadership group, about the experience of reporting and writing this story.

James Gross, a psychology professor at Stanford University, has a 13-year-old daughter who loves math and science. It hasn’t occurred to her yet that that’s unusual, he says. “But I know in the next couple of years, it will.”

“I know as time goes on, she’ll feel increasingly lonely as a girl who’s interested in math and science”—and be at risk of narrowing her choices in life before finding out how far she could have gone.

Women now make up half the national workforce, earn more college and graduate degrees than men, and by some estimates represent the largest single economic force in the world. Yet the gender gap in science persists, to a greater degree than in other professions, particularly in high-end, math-intensive fields such as computer science and engineering.

According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, women in fields commonly referred to as STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) made up 7 percent of that workforce in 1970, a figure that had jumped to 23 percent by 1990. But the rise essentially stopped there. Two decades later, in 2011, women made up 26 percent of the science workforce.

It’s not that women aren’t wanted. “I don’t know any institution today that is not trying to hire more women scientists and engineers,” says one science historian. But many cultural forces continue to stand in the way—ranging from girls being steered toward other professions from an early age and gender bias and sexual harassment in the workplace to the potentially career-stalling effects on women of having children.

 

“Where did the idea for Take Our Daughters to Work Day come from?

WILSON: [It came from]Carol Gilligan’s research looking at how adolescent girls started to lose their sense of who they were — thinking, talking and saying what they felt. You weren’t supposed to question boys. You weren’t supposed to know anything, so to speak.

[The Ms. Foundation] hired a great consultant, Nell Merlino, who told us a story that she had heard about a girl who was at a school that made arrangements for her to have an internship at a wonderful place in downtown New York. The girl went to the building, and she couldn’t go in. She was really intimidated, and she went home. They sent her a second time, and she got there, got a little further [inside the building], but she just couldn’t [go upstairs]. Finally, the person who had been working with her at the school just came with her and took her up to see the woman, and she got a great internship and lived happily ever after. Gilligan knew that it was important for women’s voices to support girls in keeping their sense of self in adolescence.”

The two images that really stood out to me are 1) the photo on page 223, of the U.S. soldiers carrying the body of their fallen comrade. This photo sticks out to me because of the emotion it carries and the weight literal and emotional that the photo depicts. The photo shows the weight that the soldiers are carrying and will carry and that emotion is what really sticks out to me. The  second image that really stood out to me was the one on page 226 of all the kids and refugees reaching for food and water. Once again the emotion behind all their faces, the agony, hunger, thirst is written all over their faces. We can feel their pain and that is powerful, that is what the photo does for me it allows me to feel the emotion of the people in the photo. Photography is a powerful tool used by journalists.

I can incorporate blogs and videos into my blog to make the horse life come alive for people to really show them what it is like to live breath and just be a part of the horse world. I was thinking of doing my next blog about a day in life of an equestrian at a horse show, I was going to go through my day from start to finish to show the horse show side of things and the competition and what it is like. I also think this will help break down the ideology that equestrian is for the elite, I think showing people what it is like working and also riding in a show on the same day will be not only a good blog but interesting for readers to read. I think that by including photos and videos from horse shows it makes it more personal and really allows people to feel the emotions I feel while I am there which will in turn give them a better understanding of the equestrian world.

Kiki Daffan

Topic: Fashion as a form of protest

Magazine Article with interviews

Fashion as Protest

Following the election of Donald Trump women took to social media and created an event that would later be the 2017 Women’s March. Women took to facebook and all other forms of social media in order calling people to march and protest to show solidarity for women, minorities, immigrants, and everyone that was marginalized and hurt by the rhetoric of Trump’s campaign. They called for people to take action, same as the phrase nasty women did after the third and final debate. People were being called to action, called to fight for their rights by their fellow citizens. People gathered and participated in what would become the largest peaceful demonstration in history, we made history on January 17, 2017. But how did we make history? We made history because we had a cause that people rallied behind they rallied behind it because fighting for what’s right is worth it. The same ideology that is behind the phrase nasty women was behind the women’s march and another way in which people showed their support and protest was through fashion. Fashion as protest was not a new way in which people expressed their opinions. During the women’s suffrage movement women wore uniforms to show that they were in unity and could join the workforce, during slutwalks people wore what was deemed to be slutty to prove the point that women are not asking to be raped, and then the women’s march used the pussy hats to show solidarity and convey a message to the new administration. Movements throughout history have used fashion as protest to show administrations what they want for the future of America and what they believe. Now we will hear from one of the women’s march coordinators Tamika Mallory and her thoughts on this idea of women using fashion as protest

Interviewer: Hello Tamika how are you today?

Tamika: I’m doing well, I’m excited to discuss the worldwide protest that occurred on behalf of women’s rights, immigration reform, healthcare reform, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, racial equality and equality in general. While the marches that occurred on January 21st were a part of the larger protests of the current U.S. president Donald Trump, the Women’s March that took place this year made history as the largest protest in history, and I can’t wait to share my insight and thoughts on the use of fashion as protest and how that worked to get the message about they type of America we (the citizens) want to live in.

Interviewer: So what was the main form of fashion that protestors used during the women’s march?

Tamika: The pussy hats were definitely the most widely used was the pussy hat which were being bought and made by women and protesters everywhere it was really a sight to see all those pussy hats marching down the street in solidarity unified under one cause.

Interviewer: Yes it certainly was the images taken of the women’s march were certainly powerful! So what was the purpose of the pussy hats and using fashion as protest?

Tamika: Well I think that our original intent of the pussy hat has grown at first it was only meant to be a symbol of solidarity but it has since evolved to become a symbol for an ideology. An ideology that women are equal to men, that the future is female, that women can break the glass ceiling, the hat come to represent so much more than a play on the insult that Donald Trump said to women everywhere (grab em by the pussy). The hat has come to be a symbol of hope and the values that people were marching for. The pussy hat began to symbolize each and everyone of the ideologies and commonplaces that the protesters gathered to raise their voices about.

Interviewer: The Pussy hat certainly has grown into something more than simply a symbol of solidarity it has even become a project and group known as the pussy hat project. What are your thoughts on that.

Tamika: Quite simply the organization is taking the hat and creating meaning behind it quite simply the purpose of the pussy hat is about women refusing to be erased from political discussion they are using the hats as a way to keep the conversation going about women’s rights they are using the hat to make sure people don’t forget and move on before real change occurs or can occur.

Interviewer: So is there a mission of the pussy hat? Can fashion have a mission? Can fashion have an impact? I think a lot of our readers are wondering this, how can fashion have such a large impact on protest.

Tamika: Well to answer these questions the pussy hat is the perfect example because the pussy hat truly shows how fashion can have an impact on the protest, the ideologies of the people and help unify people. The pussy hat was created as a symbol for women marchers to wear to the women’s march so that they could be unified by a single symbol a single image, because that is the legacy and power of protests the images and ideas that stick with and follow people around in their daily lives reminding them of the ideologies that are being fought for and the commonplaces that are being established. The pussy hat was created under the american commonplace that everyone can participate, it’s original intention was so that people who could not come out to the march could still be a part of the movement and still perform their civic duty and be a part of democracy.

Interviewer: What message did the Pussy hat send to the new administration?

Tamika: I feel that the pussy hat helped send the message that we as American’s will not bow down and give up our rights that we will fight, that we have the right to fight and that you can’t take that away from us just as the new administration cannot take our rights away because we do live in a democracy. I feel like the pussy hat helped remind people of that and was also a way in which they could stick one to the administration.

Analyze the pussy hat as means for performing our civic duty reference Hillary Clinton’s speech because it was all in response to a call to action I feel like I could maybe do a second interview here going into more depth about how the pussy hat is working within the social and historical context to remind people and help them do their civic duty and participate in democracy.

Conclusion: Overall how fashion as protest has been used historically and in modern times as an agent to enact change, bring people together, and help a movement be more effective. I want to use the pussy hat as my main artifact because I feel like that one is the fashion that has the most meaning to the women’s march and that is the context that I was planning on focusing on I feel like this will wrap up the magazine article nicely.

 

Finding balance in life is always hard and we are constantly reminded of the fact that we need to have harmony in order to have a well rounded and meaningful life.  Lynsey Addario discusses how she has to balance her work and family life. Lysney Addario says that “the more I saw the world, the deeper my commitment to my family grew. Travel and distance meant it was difficult to see them regularly. ” In this statement, Addario admits that it is difficult for her to, often balance her work life and her life with her family in relationships which is how she always seems to end up single and often having to choose between work and her family. Addario talks about how she balances these two major parts of her life because they are both so important to her so she wants them to be a part of her life.

In my life with regard to my passion blog, I often find myself trying to balance my school life and that part of my life with all my friends there and my barn friends, and my life there. I often found it hard to balance theses two parts of my life because they are both two important parts that I cherish and don’t ever want to compromise. But I’ve had to learn how, to balance these aspects of my life, because I didn’t want to lose either of those parts of my life because they made up so much of who I am. I feel like this would a good thing to talk about in my passion blog because it shows the compromises I had to reach to have both parts of my life continue to be a part of my life. I feel like this is a good thing to talk about in my passion blog because compromises are something that everyone relates to because it something everyone goes through.