Gender equality

Breaking down barriers to gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship would create new sources of economic growth  

 HeforShe, gender equality campaign

Interesting article on Clinton´s defeat.

file:///C:/Users/DptoIngles/Desktop/donal-trump.pdf

Trump and Clinton debate

The Shrinking Woman

 Across from me at the kitchen table, my mother smiles over red wine that she drinks out of a measuring glass.
She says she doesn't deprive herself,
but I've learned to find nuance in every movement of her fork.
In every crinkle in her brow as she offers me the uneaten pieces on her plate.
I've realized she only eats dinner when I suggest it.
I wonder what she does when I'm not there to do so.

Maybe this is why my house feels bigger each time I return; it's proportional.
As she shrinks the space around her seems increasingly vast.
She wanes while my father waxes. His stomach has grown round with wine, late nights, oysters, poetry. A new girlfriend who was overweight as a teenager, but my dad reports that now she's "crazy about fruit."

It was the same with his parents;
as my grandmother became frail and angular her husband swelled to red round cheeks, round stomach,
and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking,
making space for the entrance of men into their lives,
not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave.

I have been taught accommodation.
My brother never thinks before he speaks.
I have been taught to filter.
"How can anyone have a relationship to food?" he asks, laughing, as I eat the black bean soup I chose for its lack of carbs.
I want to say: we come from difference, Jonas,
you have been taught to grow out,
I have been taught to grow in.
You learned from our father how to emit, how to produce, to roll each thought off your tongue with confidence, you used to lose your voice every other week from shouting so much.
I learned to absorb.
I took lessons from our mother in creating space around myself.
I learned to read the knots in her forehead while the guys went out for oysters,
and I never meant to replicate her, but
spend enough time sitting across from someone and you pick up their habits-

that's why women in my family have been shrinking for decades.
We all learned it from each other, the way each generation taught the next how to knit,
weaving silence in between the threads
which I can still feel as I walk through this ever-growing house,
skin itching,
picking up all the habits my mother has unwittingly dropped like bits of crumpled paper from her pocket on her countless trips from bedroom to kitchen to bedroom again.
Nights I hear her creep down to eat plain yogurt in the dark, a fugitive stealing calories to which she does not feel entitled.
Deciding how many bites is too many.
How much space she deserves to occupy.

Watching the struggle I either mimic or hate her,
And I don't want to do either anymore,
but the burden of this house has followed me across the country.
I asked five questions in genetics class today and all of them started with the word "sorry."
I don't know the requirements for the sociology major because I spent the entire meeting deciding whether or not I could have another piece of pizza,
a circular obsession I never wanted, but

inheritance is accidental,
still staring at me with wine-stained lips from across the kitchen table.

 Transcription from http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Lily-myers-shrinking-women-lyrics

11th October- International Day of the Girl

 
 
BBC News - The girl who was shot for going to school 
CNN News - Accolades, Applause and a Grim Milestone
The Express Tribune One girl,one teacher and one pen can change the world
Full interview - Malala on the Daily ShowWith Jon Stewart

Woman Spirit

Tales of passion by Isabel Allende

Men and Women- Are we equals?

According to the United Nations Population Fund, gender equality requires equal enjoyment by women and men of socially-valued goods, opportunities, resources and rewards.Gender equality is intrinsically linked to sustainable development and is vital to the realization of human rights for all.
Equality between men and women exists when both sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence; have equal opportunities for financial independence through work or through setting up businesses; enjoy equal access to education and the opportunity to develop personal ambitions, interests and talents; share responsibility for the home and children and are completely free from coercion, intimidation and gender-based violence both at work and at home.

http://www.unfpa.org/gender/resources_faq.htm



On the 8th of March the International Women`s Day celebrated its 100th anniversary. Over a hundred years lots of things have changed, but do we actually live in a society in which women and men enjoy the same opportunities, rights and obligations in all spheres of life?.

GENDER STEREOTYPES

We have come along way from this

to this:

but stereotypes still exist in our society, don't they?

MALE AND FEMALE ROLES

This is what we are used to:

And we even laugh about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoC8FTLKSI 


BUT... is it just a question of gender stereotypes?

PARENTS AND CHILDREN

MUMS' SONG: What a mum does in 24 hours summarised in 3 minutes!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nem0bkErGVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9SARUZEBT0&feature=related
Here is the link in case the video does not work.

DADS` SONG: What a dad does in 24 hours summarised in 3 seconds!

MEN AND WOMEN

Here is a video that illustrates how men's brains and women's brains work. Don't miss it, it is a laugh!

MEN AND WOMEN´S BRAINS



MEN AND WOMEN`S MEMORY RAM AND MULTI-TASKING