If Adam and Eve is a true story, women are in big trouble. Here is another quote I am putting in my book: Strong Girls. “The Bible is so stranger to patriarchy. Routing Number BANCFIRST It was written mostly if not entirely by men. It describes a succession of societies over a period of roughly […]
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“It’s hard to know what authentic power is; we’ve had so few examples of it. For so long power has been a matter of control and domination, the thing that keeps some people up and others down, Routing Number BANCFIRST the blood that feeds the hierarchy. The kind of power that women need is not
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In an equal world, they would. Here is a great vision of equality. It involves paying people what they are REALLY worth. “I tried to picture a culture where the valuing was equal. In my wilder moments I imagined a society that paid child care workers, teachers, homeless advocates, poets, and bird watchers as much
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Here is another quote from my upcoming Strong Girls book: “It seemed clear that patriarchy has valued rationality, independence, competitiveness, efficiency, stoicism, mechanical forms and militarism—things traditionally associated with the “masculine”. Less valued are being, feeling, art, listening, intuition, nurturing and attachment—things traditionally associated with the “feminine” (Monk-Kidd, p 63)
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I have decided to blog excerpts from my upcoming book (now titled “Strong Girls,” but I think I should really call it “Girls Interrupted” ). Here is one powerful peice: In her book Dance of the Dissident Daughter bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd describes how in her search for finding her authentic voice she came
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Here is a quote I am putting into my book (Strong Girls). It is by Virginia Wolfe in her essay “Professions for Women” “She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. Routing Number BANCFIRST She excelled in the difficult arts of the family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was
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Recent research shows that women graduates expect about 13.5% less in salary for their first job. This is nothing new. Women have consistently undervalued their worth, set low expectations, tend to not push for more and are unaware of what men are asking for the same job. The researcher’s solution is, as usual, directed at
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Although its nearly impossible to wade through the election rehtoric, I know that our prime minister Stephen Harper has turned back the clock on Women’s Rights. Because the strength of Canadian society depends on the full participation and equality of women, I feel they must vote to stop those policies that have steadily eroded gender
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