You don’t have to read any more newspaper articles on advancing women. You do not need more opinions from women who are deep in the trenches. Instead go directly to the academics who know precisely why women are held back. Speak to professor Joan C. Williams or Law Professor Deborah Rhodes. Or read my books that summarize and simplify all the critical literature on how to advance women. Here is the Manifesto from my book: Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Positive Change in a World Run by Men. Start here and please stop re-inventing the wheel on gender equality.
Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Equality
21 Strategies
- Acknowledge our thousand-year-old hierarchy
- Uncover our hidden cultural rules
- Challenge male privilege
- Balance masculine and feminine
- Question the “Femininity Message”
- End the media’s stereotyping
- Don’t expect women to be beauty models
- Eradicate pornography and the sexualization of women and girls
- Challenge the tyranny of niceness
- Value the intelligence of emotions
- Remember women’s history
- Explore our fear of strong women
- See the link between power and violence
- Ensure women participate in daily news
- Understand what true equality means
- Embrace divine feminine power
- Engage men and boys
- Use language that includes women
- Create an Occupy Women Movement
- Help women be small “p” and big “P” political
- Imagine women as true partners
Copyright ©Maureen F. Fitzgerald, Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Positive Change in a World Run by Men. 21 Powerful Strategies. For electronic copies please contact the author at www.MaureenFitzgerald.com