tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86002663856212618802024-02-21T08:29:36.464-08:00Jacqui's BlogJacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-52429629429396449592014-09-08T08:27:00.003-07:002014-09-08T08:27:45.286-07:00 ERA RALLY IN WASHINGTON, SEPT 12 AND 13Article by: Editorial Board, Star Tribune<br /><br /><div>
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It seemed to be a blast from the past: A group of former and present legislators and feminist leaders announced at the State Fair this week that a busload of Minnesota feminist activists would travel to Washington, D.C., for a Sept. 12-13 <a href="http://www.wearewoman.us/">We Are Woman #Rally4Equality2014 </a>event on the national mall. The rally’s aim: The revival of the moribund Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and a push for its inclusion in the U.S. Constitution.</div>
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<br />Yes, the ERA — the 1970s lightning rod of division between feminists and gender traditionalists — is back on the national stage, complete with the banners, slogans and arguments of yore. It’s propelled by both a new equality-minded generation and veterans of the 20th-century women’s movement who consider the measure’s failure its most painful setback.</div>
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<br />A sense of history was reinforced by the announcement’s timing Tuesday — Women’s Equality Day, the 94th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. The ERA emerged as a feminist goal just three years after women’s suffrage became law, penned by National Women’s Party founder Alice Paul. Congress approved it and sent it to the states in 1972.<br />Despite falling three states short (see accompanying map) of the 38 required for ratification before the June 30, 1982, deadline set by Congress, the ERA never completely went away. It has been introduced in every Congress since then. Pro-ERA legal scholars say it remains alive, still only three states shy of its goal, awaiting congressional action to either set a new deadline for its ratification or remove the deadline altogether. ERA opponents disagree, according to the nonpartisan <a href="http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/misc/CRS%20ERA%20report%204-8-14.pdf">Congressional Research Service,</a> and say that a fresh start would be required to adopt the amendment. But for the past 32 years, the ERA hasn’t generated much grass-roots passion — until now.</div>
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<a name='more'></a><br />We welcome the surge of ERA enthusiasm in Minnesota. Today the amendment would not be the hugely transformative force it was portrayed to be 40 years ago by both its friends and its enemies. Many early claims were overstated. Society has evolved toward equality since then, without an ERA push. The arguments used to oppose the ERA’s ratification in the 1970s are telling. Conservative crusader Phyllis Schlafly of Illinois spearheaded a campaign that warned that the ERA’s ratification would lead to women serving alongside men in the military, legalization of same-sex marriage, an end to traditional alimony for divorced wives, and unisex public restrooms. All of that came to pass anyway, without the ERA.</div>
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<br />But the ERA would still offer explicit assurance of gender equality under the law, something that is absent from the foundational charters of both the United States and Minnesota. Its presence in those constitutions would make gender equity a bedrock principle of law.</div>
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<br />The ERA likely would not magically close the persistent gap in pay between male and female workers doing comparable jobs, said Jill Gaulding, co-founder and legal director of Gender Justice, a St. Paul-based advocacy organization. But it would strengthen the hands of those seeking to end gender bias in the workplace.Similarly, the ERA’s inclusion in the Constitution might not have changed the majority opinion in this year’s U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that employers can, for religious reasons, exclude contraceptive coverage from their employee health insurance benefits. But it would have made a requirement of equal treatment of men and women under the law a bigger factor in the court’s thinking, Gaulding said.</div>
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<br />The ERA would be an asset to women serving in the U.S. armed forces, particularly those seeking justice for victims of sexual assaults, argued Trista Matascastillo, chair of the Women Veterans’ Initiative. They would be able to claim more effectively that a lenient response is unlawful discrimination, she said.</div>
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<br />Those possible practical consequences of the ERA deserve fresh examination in the light of all that has already changed for women in the 41 years since Minnesota ratified the amendment, on Feb. 12, 1973. But its importance as a statement of national principle ought not be lost in such speculation. As Gaulding of Gender Justice put it, in a democracy, “if people think something is important, the law should reflect that.” It surprises many Americans born after the ERA expired in 1982 that gender equality is not already a constitutional guarantee.</div>
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<br />Overwhelmingly, Minnesotans would agree that American men and women should stand equally before the law. It’s well to ask anew whether they think their state and federal constitutions should say so.</div>
Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-86596400721418485992014-08-25T14:05:00.002-07:002014-08-25T14:05:55.674-07:00REMEMBERING AUGUST 26, 1970My son, Denis, now 61 years old, was visiting me recently. What a memory he has! It’s photographic so he talks about long ago events in detail, even minor ones that may have slipped my mind, like this one leading up to the August 26, 1970 strike in New York City.<br /><br />Janine (his sister) and I were home for the summer. “You were constantly on the phone,” he recalled. “So much seemed to be going on and you had no time for us. So you sent us to Colombia to spend the summer with dad. A few weeks later in Bogota I picked up El Tiempo and the headlines were screaming…<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
Feministas Marchan En Nueva York.</div>
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I put an ad in the Village Voice asking for help and from then on NOW meetings were crowded with new women anxious to help.Two of them were young Pat Lawrence and Marion Gannet.</div>
For starters…<br /><br />Betty Friedan had been kicked upstairs at the national NOW conference in Chicago and Aileen Hernandez was our new president. As friends who were at the conference remember, the press was more interested in Betty than in the new officers. They zeroed in on her and she declared triumphantly that “This August 26th marks the 50th anniversary of the Equality Amendment, at last giving women the right to vote, and NOW will hold a nationwide strike to remember that great day and continue our fight for full equality.”<br /><br />Betty wasn’t popular with many NOW and Women’s Liberation leaders at the time because of comments she’d made about the rising gay movement. As she later explained, she--and many others—had been fearful that the gay movement would hurt the Feminist Movement. At the time all feminist activists were being tagged as gay, a sure-fire method of minimalizing and destroying the Feminist Movement. Also, Betty was hardly diplomatic, and her personality turned many off.<br /><br />So, back in NYC she called a meeting to plan the Strike. I immediately saw how important this was and was determined to make it a great day. Since NOW and radical feminist groups weren’t at first interested in Betty’s doings, I went to the new Women’s Center, a facility that radical feminists had managed to get the city to give our Movement. There I recruited Marjorie DeFazio and Ann Hazelwood Brady, who weren’t affiliated with any group.<br /><br />I also brought in the Socialist Workers party women, who were unpopular with other feminists, as it was thought that they were pushing Socialism more than Feminism. But they were known to be great march organizers. I remember particularly Ruth Ann Miller, who later helped plan that very successful March down Fifth Avenue.<br /><br />I also remember running around town with a young Jill Ward in her little car putting up signs about the March everywhere. I particularly remember stopping at a red light on Park Avenue and in the car next to us the male driver was yelling at his woman partner. Jill jumped out of her car and handed the woman one of our flyers, which said something like Don’t take it any more Women! March on Fifth Avenue onAugust 26, the 50th anniversary of the Suffrage Amendment, to continue the fight for equal rights for our sex. ?<br /><br />Betty brought in women from the YWCA and other established women’s organizations. We met in a loft in the Village. Though it was Betty’s idea and her leadership, she was treated shamefully, even sent out to buy coffee for the group. Years later, at VFA’s event celebrating NOW’s 30thbirthday at Barnard in 1996, one of the women there remembered that Betty had been sent out for coffee and had returned carrying a tray of coffee mugs for the group. I said, “Ok, go tell Betty that.” She did. And Betty screamed<br /><br />“NO way did that happen!”<br /><br />But it did! <br /><br />* Because of Betty’s statements about gays, NYNOW president Ivy Bottini would have nothing to do with the Strike.<br /><br />“So, Ivy, named me head of the Strike committee,” I said.<br /><br />And she did.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhxH3Z6cy_Cp76HbXXOEFCc6DMZdzzVuR42JgjOcL4f87XzjmXQGCZwX2LuBmm36_sdj8jRAuc2GNxY2_TVnUzc0fZEpuusQy-ibNZbgFcCAexTyqgcHnjDAI0CAcfAPRdZ=s0-d-e1-ft" /><br />I was particularly interested in getting the word around so that we’d have a huge March, but how on earth would we get the word around?<br /><br />“We’ll take over the Statue of Liberty!” Pat said.<br /><br />“We can’t do that,” I declared.<br /><br />“The Puerto Ricans took it over last year and they’re in jail, and the guard there has been increased.”<br /><br />“We’ll find a way,” she insisted. “Marion is an artist so we’ll make banners in her studio. What should we put on them?”<br /><br />Betty had coined the phrase, “Women of the World Unite,” and that was perfect for one of the signs.<br /><br /> “On the top banner put Women of the World Unite,” I said, “and on the one below, MARCH ON AUGUST 26TH.” <br /><br />So she and Marion paid several visits to Ms. Liberty. They took measurements of the top balconies and Marion made the two 40-footers.<br /><br />To be sure the press would record what we did I sent out a press release announcing that NOW members would take over the Statue of Liberty at 11 AM.<br /><br />The weather the day of the “Takeover” was glorious. Truly the goddesses were with us. I arrived early in lower Manhattan and joined a crowd of seemingly strange tourists to await the boat to the Island. Pat and Marion, each carrying a banner under her blue jeans, were walking around as though lame. As we had planned, I pretended not to know them, or anyone else. We must not let the guards in on our plans. But then several men carrying huge cameras appeared. I rushed up to them.<br /><br />“What are you doing here?” I asked. “We told you to come at 11.”<br /><br />“Ah, but we have sources,” they said… “We didn’t want to miss this.”<br /><br />“But you’ll ruin our plans,” I answered. “They’ll never let us get on the Island now.”<br /><br />“Don’t worry,” I was told. “We’ll take the guards aside to tell them we’re there to film the island, and while we’re distracting them, you gals run up the stairs.”<br /><br />The plan was that some of the women would stay at the foot of the Statue, and once the banners were up, they’d begin to march and chant. I remember especially Carole De Saram, a young member of NOW and later a NYNOW president, and Mary Vasiliades, who filmed the event, the only one who has a record of it.<br /><br />Just as planned, the cameramen took the guards aside, and up the stairs Pat, Marion, I and others scampered. But as we were attaching our “Women of the World Unite” banner the guards caught on and rushed upstairs. They were pushing the doors, as we on the balcony tried to keep them from reaching us, meanwhile yelling at the women to hurry up with tying on the banner. Soon the guards pushed us out of the way and were on the balcony ready to tear the banners down. But that very moment Mayor Lindsay called, bless his memory.<br /><br />“Leave the women alone,” he ordered.<br /><br />There were two helicopters flying about Ms. Liberty that had given our news to the world.<br /><br />And so now the world knew that feminists had taken over Ms. Liberty and would hold a national strike on August 26, the 50th anniversary of the Suffrage Amendment!<br /><br />The rest of that beautiful day we greeted Bella Abzug, candidate for the U.S. Congress, and a 90-something woman from the last feminist movement who was there to cheer us on. At a press conference on the Island I read a telegram that I’d asked Betty Berry, a very active NYNOW member, to send. <br /><br />“We came, we saw, we conquered, and we won’t leave until the ERA is passed.”<br /><br />For we were fighting for the ERA at the time--as we still are--and there were NOW members in DC at the same time demonstrating for the ERA.<br /><br />Beyond our expectations, news of our takeover of Ms. Liberty went around the world, and the repercussions were dramatic--one reason that two weeks later, on August 26th, the 50th anniversary of the Suffrage Amendment, thousands showed up to march down Fifth Avenue.<br /><br />And, as Kate Millett later announced to the world:<br /><br />“We are a Movement now!"</div>
Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-50410889722187292622014-08-24T14:08:00.000-07:002014-08-25T14:08:24.709-07:00CHARLENE SUNESON – NAVAL OFFICER, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY SPECIALIST, SOCIOLOGIST – ACTIVIST FEMINIST FOREVER<br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhOdyFudxgYJbKa557cTuEO0NNgdAUK4Q03jT751tHMvWR7KBNqrct3H8impZLnJjF5OXz7IIgtgiQUfbtyJ7yR70nr1Q8OQmSeuH8gai4tnlV7xQc52YErzvHt8Zgi7qOyiL-0OsHmu5h8CVjRHIPPxO_Os_s=s0-d-e1-ft" /><div>
With four years of elementary school and carpenter papers, my father Oscar left Sweden for the U.S. in 1923. Using Chicago as a home base, he went wherever there was work, ultimately becoming a contractor specializing in walk-in coolers in food establishments. My mother Violet Chappell, born in Zion, Illinois, was raised in a fundamentalist religion in which only males are congregation leaders. After two years of high school she worked as a bank clerk, but left her job to follow my father. I was born in 1934 in Waukegan, Illinois.<br /><br />As a homemaker my mother became severely depressed. Her withdrawal meant my younger sister Beverly and I had far more physical freedom than most. Sports were permitted and I took up ice-skating. However, all reading material that had the potential to conflict with my mother’s religion (practically everything except numbers and calculating) was forbidden. Thus, my fascination with charts and statistics ensued and my sister came to excel in math. Also acceptable was an elementary school home mechanics program where girls and boys practiced sewing, electrical connections, carpentry, etc., in the same classes.<br /><br />High school students took home or shop classes based on their gender. I enrolled in foods and clothing because my friends did. The school newspaper reported on my swimming, diving, bowling, and horseback riding. My sister’s sports included championship baseball. One summer the two of us were left alone at a cottage my father had built in Wisconsin. Having the freedom to read a book about a religious man, I realized that not only did other religions lack merit as taught, so did the one in which we were raised. However, it took several days before there was the courage to face that what one internalized as righteous (or desirable as an occupation), may not be, especially when it restricted women. I changed to a college preparatory program taking every science course and received the Bausch + Lomb Science Award upon graduation.<br /><br />Next was the University of Chicago. Most meaningful were the readings of historical debates showing that the opposition to equality on the basis of class (among whites) was similar to that between races. The bad news was that there was nothing relating to inequality based on sex.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>Looking for adventure and a career, upon earning my Bachelor’s Degree I joined the U.S. Navy. After becoming a line officer, I was assigned to the Pentagon and the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations for administrative and communications jobs. Wives of successful naval officers, previously naval officers themselves, told me, “Whatever you do, don’t get married.” I took their advice and continued my adventurous career, “hopping” memorable flights aboard military aircraft.<br /><br />Personnel work in Kodiak, Alaska followed. Next was another personnel job in San Diego where my sister also relocated and worked on safety factors of nuclear reactors at General Atomic. I took a course in oceanography at Scripps Institute.<br /><br />No longer content with a shore job to which women Navy line officers were confined, I requested and, incredibly, in 1961 became the first woman line officer to be assigned to sea duty. I expected the negative reaction from Navy men, but was saddened by those Navy women who essentially ratified their traditional niches. On board, I was not permitted on the bridge or in the engine room. During the Cuban Missile Crisis we left the Pacific via the Panama Canal loaded with supplies and waited in New Orleans. I was told that if the ship went to Cuba, I would not.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjCXBjjAT6mMvLRLhrZzGxCuUZWEHqMZinLjuGf97WCNtHi88SfOCqeGunUZbAuwUgeHEF5MK2cQ3_fpXQLoWotBHDj2BsLc7ApWQJd5YKK9cDBCGP378QFNftR7z29mhPas-AQn_uJIE7JutaH-fRDNcFU=s0-d-e1-ft" />Shortly thereafter, although I was “a credit to the WAVES and to the naval service,” the Navy announced it no longer would assign women line officers to sea duty, nor would there even be a sea-going code in my record. Not until the height of the Women’s Movement and a forward looking Chief of Naval Operations did the assignment of non-medical women to Navy ships resume.<br /><br />Needless to say, I now had a heightened interest in women’s status and the sociological and psychological means by which women were kept “in their place.” In my next assignment, recruiting for women officers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, a senior at a Catholic women’s college told me her degree would be in “Hospital Secretary!” Because the Catholic hospital across the street needed secretaries, her college channeled women into these jobs.<br /><br />I recruited more women officer candidates than there had been in the past. Unfortunately, during the last month of my recruiting tour, the first acts of a new area director of naval recruiting were to downgrade the women officer program and direct that I write a memo apprising my replacement of her work circumstances. He was not happy with a portion of my memo and made a negative entry in my fitness report, which meant that after three more years I would be required to leave active duty.<br /><br />During the next two years I was an aide to an admiral at a NATO base in Naples, Italy. However, adventure was no longer sufficiently rewarding. Lois Byrum, an earlier Naples naval officer destined to be a charter member of Twin Cities, Minnesota NOW, sent me notice of the formation of the National Organization for Women. It was time to professionally address the problem of sex discrimination. An Italian sociologist recommended that my final Navy year (from mid-1967) be in New York City, the place most likely to facilitate my transition to change-oriented goals.<br /><br />That last year I worked at another personnel job, studied for a Master’s in Sociology at the New School for Social Research (with a couple courses on women), and joined the newly created New York NOW. I was in awe of those creating NOW’s Bill of Rights at the 1967 NOW Conference in Washington, D.C. and their courage in defying both the religious right by adopting reproductive rights and the Labor left by adopting the Equal Rights Amendment, the former with input from Muriel Fox and the latter facilitated by the presence of suffragist Alice Paul.<br /><br />My first New York City NOW task was assisting Kate Millett in the writing of “Token Learning” (on ways women’s colleges short-changed their students) by providing data on the standings of these schools. My first office was Legislative and Political Affairs Committee Coordinator. Committee members, including Beth Buchter, Cindy Cisler, Jim Clapp, Nancy Erickson, Donna Loercher, Beverly Olman, Lorraine Rechill, Marilyn Schnaufer, Carol Turner, & Ann Wallace, each with their own issue, sent legislative goals to mayoral candidates for their support. When candidates did not reply, we held demonstrations in front of their offices, which produced immediate response. The ERA Coordinator, Ann Wallace, arranged actions in Washington, D.C. to get the ERA out of committee. A trip to San Francisco included a sit-in with Betty Friedan and a couple dozen others to open the Squire Room at the Fairmont Hotel to women. I was elected Chair of the New York City Board. My first political campaign contribution was to Shirley Chisholm when she ran for Congress in 1968.<br /><br />Upon my father’s death in 1970, my sister and I went to a Brotherhood of Carpenters union office in Chicago to place a death notice and obtain a burial benefit. As we entered, a union employee yelled, “We don’t hire women carpenters.” When we did not leave, he repeated his outburst. This was five years after such discrimination had been outlawed. Having already completed my Master’s, I moved with my mother to California, where my sister remained. <br /><br />One of the first of many Los Angeles actions was protesting the omission of women from Labor Department Affirmative Action regulations. In 1971 I became L.A. NOW’s Legislative Action Committee Coordinator and later the Southern California Legislative Coordinator. Jean Stapleton arranged for the Los Angeles Times to publicize our “Barefoot and Pregnant” awards to legislators with the worst voting records on women. In response to a Catholic bishop excommunicating women who had abortions, I appeared on television advising viewers that NOW was giving the bishop its (mythical) recruiting award because his actions resulted in new NOW members.<br /><br />Eliciting a promise from State Senator Mervyn Dymally to introduce “Marriage as Equal Partnership” legislation, I proposed that both spouses, rather than the husband in an intact marriage, be in control of community property. Los Angeles NOW member Lynn Peterson testified in the State Senate on behalf of this change. Other groups in Sacramento became involved, resulting in the enacted compromise that “either” spouse could be in control. Years later the law was amended to require that “either” spouse had to act in a fiduciary manner toward the other.<br /><br />To help California women identifying with different types of activism all contribute to the ratification of the ERA, we developed “Legislative Guidelines” featuring various strategies (letter writing by Gigi Thousandfriend, lobbying by Geri Sherwood and Mary Samis, demonstrations by Lynn Peterson, and unorthodox actions by Rebecca Anne Gould). There were problems from both political parties. I did a zap action leafleting the plates at a Republican Women’s dinner because the group had not yet supported the ERA. On the other hand, it was necessary to threaten to organize a swing district to vote Republican upon a Senate vacancy in order to produce a domino effect to remove a Democratic roadblock. Three days later the Senate voted to ratify the ERA.<br /><br />In addition to local involvement, I was a National NOW Board member from 1971 to 1974 and National Secretary from 1974 to 1975. Early on I created an extensive ERA time chart showing the limited amount of legislative session time remaining in the states that had not yet ratified. However, my most important contribution at the national level was helping NOW move from a position of abstaining from political action to that of using political action, by obtaining an IRS ruling enabling NOW to take political action without losing tax-exempt status, the first or one of the first in the nation upon new criteria.<br /><br />My day job, through all of this, was that of Equal Employment Specialist (Investigator) in the Los Angeles District Office of the EEOC enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed employment discrimination based on race, national origin, religion, and sex. Some at the EEOC were unsupportive of the anti-sex discrimination aspect of the law. After indicating my concern that another investigator who said she “would not want to fly in a plane piloted by a woman” was handling sex discrimination cases, I received proportionately more sex discrimination cases than other investigators. A promotion to Senior Equal Opportunity Specialist was then denied because I had investigated more sex discrimination cases and fewer race/national origin cases than others. An appeal to the Civil Service Commission ultimately resulted in promotion to Senior Specialist and a meaningful back pay award, “possibly the first EEO monetary award from the Civil Service Commission” according to my attorney, Bette Bardeen. In 1975 I received the Everywoman Award from the American Civil Liberties Union for my efforts to have the EEOC give attention to sex discrimination.<br /><br />Promotion to Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist came at the first opportunity. The demands of this higher job precluded active involvement with NOW, although I always remained a member and took action on women’s behalf at my workplace whenever warranted. As the Head of Los Angeles Systemic Programs, I insured that sex discrimination situations were on an equal footing with race and national origin counterparts and insisted on sex by race/national origin analyses. Long wishing I had a PhD, as soon as I was eligible, I retired.<br /><br />During these years, my sister, then the owner of a bicycle shop in Oregon, built a beautiful home, literally with her own hands. Beverly and her husband Carl were still kayaking at age 75. While my mother’s depression lessened somewhat over the years, her continuing practice of destroying anything conflicting with her beliefs meant she lived alone until shortly before her death at age 91 in 2000.<br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjni1j3R3WJOuo2HEoA8h6WLChz2I6hcOT0JpGO2Ps34G_sEWPnTIKtGXCxtojOZ1k_ffEMFWJKDLFAeiJ9RHjySThSgriBO38SkpnbCIJ1Wyo1m-5sJaxo8seb8Q_7GBaPfzfO51XgtENE6VtvG9wjj4noEco=s0-d-e1-ft" />Acceptance into the University of Southern California’s Sociology PhD program, with concentrations in gender, aging, and quantitative methods, enabled me to pursue my equal opportunity interests regarding the continuing exclusion of women from non-traditional physically demanding jobs. Contrary to what common knowledge might predict, controlling for relevant variables my dissertation showed that as physical demands of occupations increased, job satisfaction of women and older workers increased. A favorite story found during my “comparative historical” literature review was about a miner who had a sermon preached against her in church. She replied that her mining did not cause her divorce; instead it enabled her divorce. <br /><br />After receiving my Sociology PhD and a certificate in Gender Studies, I became active again in NOW and used my membership to help military women when a Congressman who had worked to block opportunity for women in the armed forces was nominated to be Secretary of the Army. Even so, baby step by baby step, opportunities have increased for women in the military. Unfortunately, the same may not be said for women in civilian construction trades. Although the Brotherhood of Carpenters website now has a section on “Sisters in the Brotherhood,” women remain less than 2% of the craft. I am unaware of any instances where construction crafts have assumed responsibility for their pasts regarding women and have self-imposed and attained serious affirmative action goals.<br /><br />Currently operating as an independent sociologist, I am gathering material on the ongoing channeling of women’s energies by those deploying “celebration of what men have allowed women to be” strategies. Hopefully, the more women who know their history in this regard, the fewer there will be “doomed to repeat it.”<br /><br /> Comments: Jacqui Ceballos <a href="mailto:jcvfa@aol.com">jcvfa@aol.com</a><br /><br />Contact Charlene Suneson: <a href="mailto:suneson@roadrunner.com">suneson@roadrunner.com</a></div>
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Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-53937826415961774442014-08-08T12:55:00.001-07:002014-08-08T12:56:04.890-07:00SPOTLIGHT ON: MASTER PRINTER SUZANNE BENTON<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a name='more'></a><br />This was Talia’s college admissions essay for Harvard University, where she is now finishing her first year. If you discussed your Orthodox feminism in your college application, or in an essay for high school, college, or graduate school, tell us about it! Send your essay to <a href="mailto:thetorch@jofa.org">thetorch@jofa.org</a>.<br /><br />Like this post? <a href="http://www.myjewishlearning.com/eletters/nowonmjl_signup.html">Join the conversation through MyJewishLearning’s weekly blogs newslett</a>Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-44863970012032962932014-05-11T12:40:00.001-07:002014-05-11T12:40:17.130-07:00URGENT! WE NEED YOUR STORIES! NCWO Story Collection: Women and OvertimeNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S ORGS<br /><br /> From: <a href="mailto:ncworg@ncwo-online.org">ncworg@ncwo-online.org</a> Reply-to: <a href="mailto:dawn@ncwo-online.org">dawn@ncwo-online.org</a><br /> <br />The advocacy community is organizing to collect worker stories that highlight the need for the anticipated DEPT OF LABOR proposal to update the overtime eligibility rules (the topic of one of the two Executive Orders President Obama signed on April 8, 2014), and I have been asked to call the need for women's stories to your attention. A template describing the types of stories and types of information being sought is below. If you could circulate this to appropriate people within your organization and collect stories that fit the bill, that would be great. Please return any suitable collected stories (hopefully following the outline below) to Kelly Ross, Deputy Policy Director at the AFL-CIO, <a href="mailto:kross@aflcio.org">kross@aflcio.org</a>. <br /><br />The story could be in any of three categories: 1) Salaried workers earning more than $23,660 who are not getting overtime but should; 2) Workers who are getting and benefitting from overtime; 3) Employers who pay overtime and succeed.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>In the case of salaried workers earning more than $23,660 per year who are not getting overtime but should be, the narrative should explain why they should be getting overtime (i.e., because they're not management and they're not "professionals" and they are working long hours that go uncompensated or undercompensated).<br /><br />In the case of workers who are getting and benefiting from overtime, the narrative should explain from the point of view of the worker the benefit of getting overtime.<br /><br />In the case of employers who pay overtime and succeed, the narrative should explain the benefit of providing overtime from the employer's point of view. Stories from employers in California and New York that speak to the higher salary thresholds in those states would be especially interesting.<br /><br />Stories from recent or ongoing litigation would also be especially helpful.<br /><br />Please use the following template when submitting your stories:<br /><br />Photo (if available)<br />Name:<br />Contact Info:<br />Title and Organization:<br />Amount of Time Spent with Employer:<br />Age:<br />Gender:<br />City and State: <br /><br />Your Story with Overtime (1 or more paragraphs)<br /><br />If you need more information about how the current overtime regulations work, here is a good, short summary: <a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/updating-overtime-rules-important-step-giving/">http://www.epi.org/publication/updating-overtime-rules-important-step-giving/</a><br /><br />Thank you so much, Heidi<br /><br /> <br /><br />Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D.<br />Secretary-Treasurer, NCWO, Co-Chair, NCWO Task Force on Older Women's Economic Security<br />President, Institute for Women's Policy Research<br />1200 18th Street NW, Suite 301<br />Washington, DC 20036<br />Research Professor, The George Washington University<br />Editor, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy<br />MacArthur Fellow<br />Main: <a href="tel:202.785.5100">202.785.5100</a> | Fax: <a href="tel:202.833.4362">202.833.4362</a><br /><a href="http://www.iwpr.org/">www.iwpr.org</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/iwpresearch">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Womens-Policy-Research/115848097551">Facebook</a><br />CFC #10208Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-2754872998653465942014-04-27T11:44:00.004-07:002014-04-27T11:44:46.530-07:00Hello Everyone Everywhere,<br /><br /><br />We at Katrina's Dream believe that with your help Nevada will be the first state to ratify the ERA in the 21st Century. So please everyone sign Andrea Miller's petition: <div>
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<b>8 Actions for March 8: Celebrate International Women's Day With Us!<br />by CARMEN RIOS on Mar 6, 2014 </b><br />
Women all over the world will celebrate International Women's Day on Saturday, March 8, by taking action for their social, political, and economic equality. The United Nations' official IWD theme for this year is "equality for women is progress for all," and we couldn't agree more! This International Women's Day, celebrate with us by speaking out for women's rights - eight times.</div>
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<b> 1. Tell your Senator: Support CEDAW!</b><br />
CEDAW has been ratified by 187 of the 193 member states of the UN, the United States is one of only seven nations that has not yet approved it, putting us in the company of Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Iran and two small Pacific islands. As a leading advocate for human rights, the US has a compelling interest to improve conditions for women. Yet, the United Sates has compromised its credibility as a world leader in both human rights and women's rights in its failure to ratify CEDAW.<br />
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<b><br />2. Tell President Obama: #LiftTheBan!</b><br />
For many victims of war, resources provided by US humanitarian aid eases their suffering; but for victims of war rape care is limited. Survivors of war rape are denied access to comprehensive medical care that includes the option of abortion, largely because of US policy that is wrongly interpreted to place anti-abortion restrictions on humanitarian aid in conflict zones - in direct violation of international human rights and humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions. Girls and women systematically raped during conflict face increased rates of maternal mortality, permanent reproductive damage, and obstetric fistula, in addition to isolation and trauma. Without access to the option of abortion care, victims are forced to risk their health - either by carrying unwanted pregnancies to term, seeking dangerous methods of abortion or, in many tragic cases, taking their own lives.<br />
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Take action with Feminist Majority and the Global Justice Center to urge President Obama to issue an executive order lifting the ban on abortion restrictions in conflict zones, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.<br />
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<b>3. Tell the Supreme Court: #MyBodyMyBC!</b><br />
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The Affordable Care Act guarantees that all new health insurance plans cover FDA approved contraceptives, including the pill and IUDs, without co-pays or deductibles. But over 40 profit-making companies have filed lawsuits against this ACA requirement saying that they have a right to deny this coverage to their employees because of the companies' so-called religious beliefs.<br />
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 25 regarding whether companies can take away this important birth control benefit from women. Send a clear message to the Supreme Court that companies should not be able to use religion as cover to discriminate against women. <br />
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<b>4. And Show Up to Tell the SCOTUS: Let Women, Not Bosses, Decide!</b><br />
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Folks will be meeting on Tuesday, March 25 outside of the Supreme Court building to make their voices heard in this important debate - and you should be there! Come around 8:30 AMand bring your own signs!<br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>5. Stand Shoulder-to-Shoulder With Afghan Women</b><br />
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Take a pledge with us to support Afghan women and Afghan women's organizations. Let them know that we are proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them in the fight for women's and girls' equality. We will do all we can to ensure that the US continue to support Afghan women's organizations and empowerment. In this crucial transition period, you can count on our strong support.<br />
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<b>6. Tell Afghan Leaders: Sign the Bilateral Security Agreement!</b><br />
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The BSA provides that the U.S. will continue to offer assistance to strengthen security, provide humanitarian aid, and support economic and civic development. But Afghan President Hamid Karzai has indicated that he will not sign the BSA until after the April 2014 elections - a decision that could potentially disrupt the relationship between the U.S. and Afghanistan and place Afghan women at grave risk.<br />
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Urge President Karzai to sign this agreement. Without this agreement, the tremendous gains made by Afghan women since the fall of the Taliban will be in jeopardy.<br />
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<b>7. Tell US Leaders: Integrate Reproductive Healthcare with HIV/AIDS Treatment!</b><br />
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Every minute, a young woman becomes newly infected with HIV, and the vast majority of HIV infections are sexually transmitted. Women need reproductive health programs to be integrated with HIV/AIDS services, and vice-versa, for improved efficiency and effectiveness in preventing AIDS infection and unplanned pregnancy and improving maternal and child health.<br />
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You can make a difference. Take action to urge decision makers to integrate comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare services with HIV/AIDS treatment for women globally.<br />
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<b>8. Help End Military Sexual Assault!</b><br />
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The Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA) S.1752, introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), will take the decision of whether to prosecute sexual assault cases out of the chain of command and give it to independent, objective, trained military prosecutors. Reports of sexual assault in the military increased by a whopping 36% in fiscal year 2012. The vast majority of victims - 89 percent according to the Pentagon itself - do not report sex crimes at all. And one-half of female victims indicate not reporting sexual assault because they do not believe anything will be done by their commanders.<br />
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We must act now. Email your Senators to tell them that we must change the current system of handling sexual assault cases. It is simply not working.<br />
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Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-1845690119559548302014-03-08T05:14:00.000-08:002014-03-08T05:14:11.239-08:00 TEXAS MEMBER, Verne Crabtree's daughter, Carol Donovan, is running (as a democrat) for the Texas House from Dallas, District 107.Please help her if you can. <br /><br />Her address is: 6333 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 147, Lock Box 800 Dallas, TX 75214. <br /><br />Email: <a href="mailto:carolfortexas@gmail.com">carolfortexas@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.carolfortexas.com/">www.carolfortexas.com</a>Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-24550561536428285282014-03-07T05:31:00.000-08:002014-03-08T05:40:28.372-08:00Living history portrayals of inspiring women in their own words, stunningly acted and filmedWhat if all the wise, funny and notable women who have marked our lives from antiquity to modern times were to come alive? See it happen in unforgettable portrayals by historian and actress Elaine Partnow. With authentic costumes and realistic locations, Elaine--author of 17 books and performer at well over 500 venues internationally--breathes life into notable and fabulous women of the ancient and recent past. Placed in historical context, scripted from each woman’s own words, you will see these great women in action. <br /><br />With a modest and achievable budget of $13,375, we will produce twelve webisodes, each a stand-alone for the Internet; we will also combine them into two web series, about 45 minutes each, made available on DVD, ready for the classroom, discussion groups, and civic organizations. A great tie-in for National Women's History Month and other womanly celebrations.<div>
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<br /><img src="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/page/-/wmc/img/blog/map.png/@mx_640" /><br /><br />If you’ve been looking for a way to connect with other feminists and organizations worldwide, there’s a new tool to enable you to do just that:<a href="http://feministnetworkproject.wordpress.com/">The Feminist Network Project</a>. The Network was created by a group of feminist activists who met this past May at the World Social Forum in Tunis. The group of five women—from Canada, France, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia—came from very different backgrounds but shared a common vision: to create a means for feminists from many countries to connect and communicate. They recognized that the more that individuals and small, local groups can connect with each other, the more they build their strength and reach.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>Within several weeks, content in English, French, and Spanish was available on the site, with its centerpiece, the interactive <a href="http://feministnetworkproject.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/the-feministmap/">World Map of Feminists</a>, where individuals can add their names, social media platforms, organization, and location to join the worldwide network. Those who worry about privacy, or fear backlash for being openly feminist, can add their location with a pseudonym and opt out of sharing their social media contact information. So far the Network has more than 3,000 subscribers from dozens of countries, including Brazil, Cameroon, China, Finland, Haiti, Indonesia, New Zealand, Panama, Tanzania, and Uganda.<br /><br />One of the founders, Shelley Buckingham of Canada, says the founders “share a common belief that the fight for gender equality and a just world can only be accomplished through feminist values and ideologies. Like any movement, we find strength in numbers and by standing in solidarity with each other’s struggles.”<br /><br />One of the participants is <a href="http://www.mujerestransformando.org/">Mujeres Transformando</a>, an organization that promotes labor rights for women in El Salvador. “We joined the Feminist Network because our organization is eager to network with key players in the struggle for a more just society,” said Katia Villafranco, a communications manager at the organization. The members of Mujeres Transformando would like to have access to a list of similar organizations worldwide that they can contact to learn and share best practices in their area of expertise. “Primarily, we want to learn about successful campaigns and efforts so we can replicate them, but we also want to share our experiences in the movement.”<br /><br />The Network is still a work in progress. A survey conducted by the founders found that members want to share information on feminist issues, but they also want to increase the presence of progressive feminist voices in the media and build tools to mobilize at local and international levels. The founders hope to expand the online platform and use it to create a database of contacts. They also want the site to offer tools for groups to amplify mainstream media attention to their issues.<br /><br />One of the founders, Soraya Chemaly, a U.S. writer and activist, says that the main objective for the project is to create a forum where feminists can leverage the strength of the network transnationally to promote the work they do. “Right now we have many examples of people doing just that, but we are spending a lot of time recreating the wheel each time. We'd like to create a platform, best practices, tools, and a community that are all optimized to raise the visibility and effectiveness of feminist political action at every level.”<br /><br />Though the Network is growing fast, there are challenges. The site is, at least for now, funded solely by the founders, and all the work is done on a volunteer basis. Some challenges are logistical, such as managing time differences. “We try to find a day and time to speak on Skype, but it’s hard to find a moment where India, France, and the United States are all awake,” says Caroline de Haas, one of founding members from France.<br /><br />There are also linguistic challenges, as translating news and information so that members across the world can read it is a time-consuming task. “We use a lot of Google Translate, but it’s not enough,” says de Haas. For example, phrases like “street harassment,” “women of color,” and “reproductive justice” cannot always be directly translated into other languages and still keep their meaning. But these are also reasons that the Feminist Network Project is so important. Creating a global lexicon to speak about feminist issues is crucial in helping local feminist movements garner international attention and support. To meet the demands of a growing membership of transnational feminists, the founders asked for help from current members. So far more than 100 members have answered the call to translate information for publication.<br /><br />The founders and members of the Feminist Network Project represent a host of different countries with different feminist priorities, and yet the aim remains first and foremost to stand together and support each other and the work that is being done on all feminist issues, even when those issues are not the same.<br /><br />“Building this network will be a long process, and in order for it to be successful, it must be built in a democratic and representative way. As such, we welcome anyone who can volunteer their time and dedication to become actively involved in this building process,” says Buckingham.<br /><br />We’ve seen the impact that feminists working together can make with stories like those of<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/beatriz-baby-dies-dead-el-salvador_n_3384635.html"> Beatriz</a>,<a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/22727/jyoti-singh-pandey-gang-rape-victim-dying-declaration-to-doom-perpetrators"> Jyoti Singh Pandey</a>, <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/the-human-impact/2012/07/25/pregnant-teen-with-cancer-stirs-abortion-debate-in-dominican-republic/">Esperancita</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/10119109/Irish-abortion-law-key-factor-in-death-of-Savita-Halappanavar-official-report-finds.html">Savita Halappanavar </a>,<a href="http://nbclatino.com/2013/09/26/little-miss-hispanic-delaware-stripped-of-her-crown-for-not-being-latina-enough/"> Jakiyah McKoy</a>, and the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html">Steubenville rape case </a>. People around the world came together to demand action and move their stories from the sidelines to the headlines. The Feminist Network Project organizers are inviting all feminists to join this unprecedented effort to further international feminist initiatives and amplify any and all feminist voices.<br /><br /><br />The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author alone and do not represent WMC. WMC is a 501(c)(3) organization and does not endorse candidates.<br /><br />To support women journalists who are changing the conversation, donate to the WMC <a href="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/page/contribute/give-wmc">here.</a><br />To read other recent WMC Features, click <a href="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature">here.</a><br /><br />To receive WMC Features by email, click <a href="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/page/s/join-wmc">here.</a></div>
Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-37197905993987005512013-11-30T09:59:00.004-08:002013-11-30T10:12:58.058-08:00Gloria Steinem Receives the Medal of FreedomI was going to put the story of Gloria receiving the Medal of Freedom on our website, saying it was really a medal for the entire Movement, but she beat me to it! She accepted the Medal of Freedom for the feminist movement! <br />
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"I'd be crazy if I didn't understand that this is a medal for the entire women’s movement," Steinem told a gathering at the <a href="http://inagist.com/search?q=National%20Press%20Club">National Press Club</a> Monday.Read more at <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/11/20/if-we-each-have-a-torch-theres-a-lot-more-light-gloria-steinem-accepts-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom/">rhrealitycheck.org</a>Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-30349733963520864132013-11-10T19:34:00.005-08:002013-11-10T19:35:12.534-08:00COLBY COLLEGE ASKS YOUR HELP IN IDENTIFYING WOMEN WORKING FOR GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS WHO DESERVE TO RECEIVE THEIR 2014 "FELLOW" AWARD.Note: Please contact the Oak Institute for Human Rights at Colby College with any questions.<br />
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I am writing as the director of the Oak Institute for Human Rights at Colby College to ask for your help in our search for a 2014 Oak Fellow.<br />
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The formal announcement is in our brochure, which is attached as a PDF file. You can also access it and additional information about the Oak Institute at our website: <a href="http://www.colby.edu/oak">http://www.colby.edu/oak</a>.<br />
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Every fall, we host a human rights activist doing on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and organize a series of programs around her or his area of expertise. The Fellowship is designed to give that activist a respite from her or his difficult work and spend a semester in residence at the College, exposing our community to the human rights issues on which the Fellow works.<br />
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The fellowship has a different geographical or thematic focus each year. This year, we are looking for an activist working on GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>In conducting our annual search, we rely heavily on nominations from NGOS, academics, journalists, and human rights lawyers, since these are the people most likely to know of the work of on-the-ground activists.<br />
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Since you and your organization have been actively involved in human rights work, I would like to solicit your help in disseminating the announcement to your members and supporters. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone in the field who could help us.<br />
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We appreciate any assistance you might provide. Thank you!<img border="0" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" /><br />
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Walter Hatch<br />
Director, The Oak Institute for Human Rights<br />
Colby College<br />
Waterville, ME USA 04901Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-46855079900696250202013-11-10T19:32:00.000-08:002013-11-10T19:32:00.534-08:00Much-needed Women and Media Conference Energizes, Inspires<i>Today's Sexism and Ways to End It Displayed at VFA Event<br />Published on September 14, 2013 by <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/paula-j-caplan-phd">Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D.</a> <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-isnt-golden/201309/much-needed-women-and-media-conference-energizes-inspires">in Science Isn't Golden</a></i><br /><br />It had been way too long since I had been in a room where it was clear you could say you support equal rights, even say you are a feminist, and not have to explain, justify, or defend what you said. And when much time has passed between such events, it's hard to remember how energizing, inspiring, warming, and hilarious they are. That's why I consider myself lucky to have attended the spectacular conference on women and the media recently put on by Zoe Nicholson and her conference committee for Veteran Feminists of America (<a href="http://www.vfa.us/">http://www.vfa.us/</a> ). The other committee members were Lindsey Horvath, Martha Wheelock, Jane Guthrie, Melinda Tremaglio, Zury Chavez, Chelsea Del Rio, and Alma Alegria.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>The first word of the organization's title refers not to war veterans but to veterans of the feminist movement. The remarkable Jacqui Ceballos, who impelled the founding of VFA to preserve and celebrate the history of the Second Wave of the women's movement, received a richly-deserved award, as did the also remarkable Muriel Fox, another driving spirit of VFA and publicist for the work. Among other things, Jacqui chaired the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and organized and coordinated a national women's strike, helped create the National Women's Political Caucus, and was the first Executive Director of the Women's Forum. Muriel was a co-founder of NOW and was founder, president, and chair of the NOW Legal Defense and <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/education">Education</a>Fund, now called Legal Momentum.<br /><br />The VFA has for two decades been holding events based on various themes -- such as feminist writers, feminist lawyers, relationships between Second Wave and Third Wave feminists -- in various cities. The most recent one was in Los Angeles, and I understand the next will probably be in St. Louis. I hope that readers will consider joining, because the organization does great work both with these events and other ways of preserving and making history. For VFA, Barbara Love conceived and edited the impressive and fascinating book calledFeminsts Who Changed America, documenting the contributions of more than 2,000 feminists. The organization has honored thousands of women across the country, giving beautiful medals to both the well-known and the unsung.<br /><br />Though created with an emphasis on Second Wave feminists, the organization now welcomes and honors feminists of all generations.<br /><br />When the Second Wave began in the late 1960s, who would have thought that in 2013, so much would have been achieved but so much would remain to be done? A propos of the latter, in a recent article about the eight categories of "most dumped-on Americans," Paul Buchheit named women as constituting one such category and wrote:<br /><br />Recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that women earn just 80% of men's pay. In Washington, DC and California, Hispanic women make only 44 cents for every dollar made by white men. The only deviation from the norm is that in 47 of 50 large metropolitan areas, well-educated single childless women under 30 earn more than their male counterparts.<br /><br />But the overall disparities have worsened since the recession, with only about one-fifth of new jobs going to women, and with median wealth for single black and Hispanic women falling to a little over $100. And there's no respite with advancing age. The average American woman's retirement account is 38 percent less than a man's, and women over 65 have twice the poverty rate of men. http://www.nationofchange.org/eight-most-dumped-americans-1378133117<br /><br />Each event includes informative speeches and panel presentations, both reminding us of -- often revealing to us -- the history of the struggle for women's rights. And the most recent one was packed with exciting things, just a few of which I will tell you about but all of which were wonderful.<br /><br />Women's Studies and Sociology specialist Melanie Klein of Santa Monica College gave the keynote address, speaking about her founding of WAM!Los Angeles. National WAM! was founded by Jaclyn Friedman - Women, Action, and the Media, whose wonderful website is at: <a href="http://www.womenactionmedia.org/">http://www.womenactionmedia.org/</a> Klein described the current fundraising campaign for a project called "Brave Girls Want!" --<a href="http://www.bravegirlswant.com/%E2%80%8E">www.bravegirlswant.com/</a> -- which went beyond its recent goal of raising $25,000 to pay for a Times Square billboard on which for seven days a constantly-changing display of messages about what girls really want in order to be happy and healthy will be displayed. The project is based on the notion that "Toxic media and toys are a risk to healthy and empowered girlhood. The Brave Girls Alliance is taking media back and we will start in Times Square." They aim to mount similar campaigns globally. Their website includes this message: "It is time to change our girls' fate. Our brave daughters have the right to a healthy carefree<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/child-development">childhood</a>."<div>
<br />Jennifer Lee, a smart, utterly engaging, creative director, showed her new film, "Feminist Stories From Women's Liberation, 1963-1970." The one-hour film is terrifically entertaining as well as informative, even for people like me who were involved in the movement at that time. Jennifer appears onscreen intermittently through the film, telling us that in 2004 a woman had whispered -- yes, whispered, as though asking an embarrassing or dangerous question -- to her, "Are you a feminist?" Responding to the question, Jennifer realized that she had no "detailed visual history" of the movement, so she traveled around the country, interviewing feminists from that time for her film. Onscreen she also tells us that she has a young daughter and made the film in part for her and others who need to know the history. The film won "Best of the Festival, Documentary" at the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival. I wish everyone, female and male and of all ages, could see this film. In fact, you can, because it can be ordered at<a href="http://www.feministstories.com/">http://www.feministstories.com/</a><br /><br />Events like this one feed our souls. But we do it -- and can do it more -- on a daily basis, even on a smaller scale over a cup of tea with a friend or talking to a child or teenager about the ongoing need for uncovering ongoing manifestations of the <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/bias">sexism</a> that ultimately harms not only girls and women but also boys and men. This uncovering paves the way for the activism to eradicate sexism that is a civic responsibility for us all.<br /><br />©Copyright 2013 by Paula J. Caplan All rights reserved</div>
Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-47270018258410639602013-11-10T19:27:00.000-08:002013-11-10T19:27:26.752-08:00Women gain as gender gap 'narrows'<div>
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The gap between men and women has narrowed slightly in the past year in most countries, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report.<br /><br />Iceland, Finland and Norway top the list of 136 nations, based on political participation, economic equality and rights like education and health.<br /><br />The Middle East and North Africa were the only regions not to improve in the past year, with Yemen at the bottom.<br /><br />The Philippines and Nicaragua both feature in the top 10.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a>The WEF has produced the report annually for the past eight years.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2013">The release of this year's edition </a>comes as the BBC rounds off a month-long focus on women and gender around the world with a major event at Broadcasting House in London.<br /><br />One hundred women from all around the world are gathering for a day of debate and discussion as the 100 Women season comes to an end.<br /><br />Iceland's position at the top of the WEF rankings was the fifth year in a row the country has been named the world's most equal.<br /><br />Report founder and co-author Saadia Zahidi told the BBC that since the WEF began compiling the index in 2006, 80% of countries had made progress.<br /><br />"What's worrying though is that 20% of countries have made no progress or are falling behind," she said.<br /><br /> View from the Philippines (ranked 5th )<br /><br />Marites Vitug Editor and author<br /><br />We're a matriarchal society. Mothers are dominant - generally, they influence their children to a large extent.<br /><br />Women usually hold the purse. Even if they are not the major breadwinners, they do the budget, decide how money is spent. Thus, men don't have a dismissive attitude toward women.<br /><br />It's a very liberal work atmosphere we have here. We're not stifled by men. But there was - and is - one important thing going for women here: we have a fantastic support network, from household help to extended families.<br /><br />I was a beat reporter for a daily newspaper while raising a kid. If we didn't have a full-time, home-based babysitter, I wouldn't have managed.<br /><br />She singled out the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as countries that had invested in education and health, but had not integrated women into the economy.<br /><br />Nadia al-Sakkaf, editor of the English-language Yemen Times, in London for the 100 Women conference, told the BBC that she had stopped counting the years her country had languished at the bottom of the equality list.<br /><br />"It comes down to everyday life. We had three women running for president in 2006. We have lots of women in senior positions," she said.<br /><br />"But our levels of maternal mortality are very high, and 35% of girls aged 6-14 years old are not in school."<br /><br />Human capital<br /><br />Saadia Zahidi of the WEF said that by contrast many sub-Saharan countries had not invested in women, but through necessity they played a major role in the economy.<br /><br />Nordic countries continued to lead the way because they had a long history of investing in people, she said.<br /><br />"They are small economies with small populations; they recognise that talent matters, and that talent has to be men and women.<br /><br />Overall, the report, entitled Global Gender Gap Report 2013, found Iceland to be the most advanced country in the world in terms of gender equality for the fifth year running.<br /><br />Iceland, Finland (second), Norway (third) and Sweden (fourth) had all closed over 80% of the gender gap, where 100% would represent full equality.<br /><br />The highest-ranked Asian nation was the Philippines (fifth), praised for its success in health, education and economic participation.<br /><br />Asia's major economies performed poorly, with China in 69th place and Japan 105th.<br /><br />Nicaragua in 10th place was the highest positioned country in North and South America, and was praised for a "strong performance" in terms of political empowerment.<br /><br />Among major world economies Germany ranked 14th (down one), the UK held its position at 18, with Canada at 20 and the United States 23rd.<br /><br />On matters of health and survival, the report finds that 96% of the gap has now closed.<br /><br />In terms of education, the global gender gap is 93% closed, with 25 countries now judged to deliver equal treatment to boys and girls at school.<br /><br />It is a different picture on the core issue of economic equality, where the gender gap has closed by 60%.<br /><br />In developing and developed countries alike, women's presence in economic leadership positions is limited.<br /><br />And while women have made small gains in political representation - 2% this year - only 21% of that global gender gap has closed<br /><br />Ms Zahidi said the idea of the report was not to remind poor countries that they had fewer opportunities than rich countries, but to give them a tool to improve the situation.<br /><br />"Women make up one half of the human capital available to any economy and any company; if that talent isn't integrated, that is going to be a loss for both women and men," she said.Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-73301511988551359322013-11-10T19:21:00.000-08:002013-11-10T19:21:10.777-08:00PHOTO TAKEN IN 1974, SEVEN YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST WOMAN, SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, WAS APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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JUSTICES ARE MEMBERS OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN BOARD IN 1974. Left to right, Ann Scott, Joan EvansGardner, Muriel Fox, Jacqui Ceballos, Wilma Scott Heide, Karen DeCrow, Nola Claire, Dorothy Haener and Toni Carabillo. All, except Nola Claire, were members of the NOW board. Muriel Fox, Jacqui Ceballos, Karen DeCrow and Nola Claire are the only ones alive today<br />
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We owe this photo to Karen DeCrow, then NOW's newly elected president. At the time the idea of women being named to the Supreme Court was remote.Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-65382717815549254452013-10-21T12:44:00.001-07:002013-10-21T12:44:47.137-07:00Ladies Last: 8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For<div>
October 15 is <a href="http://findingada.com/">Ada Lovelace Day </a>, named for the world's first computer programmer and dedicated to promoting women in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math. A Victorian-era mathematical genius, Lovelace was the first to describe how computing machines could solve math problems, write new forms of music, and much more, if you gave them instructions in a language they could understand. Of course, over the ensuing 100-plus years, dudes have been lining up to push her out of the picture (more on that below).</div>
<br />Lovelace is hardly the only woman to be erased from the history of her own work. Here's a quick look at eight women whose breakthroughs were marginalized by their peers.<br /><br />(This isn't a complete list, by tragically epic degrees. Please use the comments section to rail about everyone we missed.)<br /><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/franklin_0.jpg" /><br />Rosalind Franklin Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />Rosalind Franklin, discovery of the DNA double helix: Watson and Crick's famed article in Nature on the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure, which would win them a Nobel Prize, buries a mention of Rosalind Franklin's role in the footnotes. But Franklin, a British biophysicist who had honed a technique to closely observe molecules using X-ray diffraction, was the first to capture a photographic image of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, known as Photo 51. An estranged male colleague of Franklin's at King's College showed her photograph to competitors Watson and Crick, without her permission. Photo 51 became crucial in shaping their thesis, but it would take Watson 40 years to admit this publicly. Franklin, known as the "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rosalind-Franklin-The-Dark-Lady/dp/0060985089">dark lady of DNA </a>," shifted her focus to the study of RNA, and made important strides before her death from cancer in 1958, four years before Watson and Crick received the Nobel. <br /><br />Ada Lovelace, computer programming: The daughter of Lord Byron, Lovelace was steered toward math by her mother, who feared her daughter would follow in her father’s "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/13/reviews/970413.13castlet.html">mad, bad, and dangerous </a>" literary footsteps. Luckily, she loved the subject, and remained devoted throughout her brief life—she died in 1852 at age 36, soon after an ambitious, proto-Moneyball attempt to beat the odds at horse racing by developing mathematical models to help place her bets. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/lovelace.jpg" /><br />Ada Lovelace Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />When she was barely 20, she started collaborating with the inventor Charles Babbage at the University of London on his "Analytical Engine," an early model of a computer. In 1843, she added extensive notes of her own to a paper on Babbage's machine, detailing how the Engine could be fed step-by-step instructions to do complicated math, and trained to work not only with numbers but also words and symbols "to compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent."<br /><br />The notes are considered the first descriptions of what we now call algorithms and computer programming, and for decades, historians have argued over whether Lovelace came up with them herself, or Babbage was somehow the real author. "Ada was as mad as a hatter, and contributed little more to the 'Notes' than trouble," <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions">writes one historian</a>, and a "manic depressive with the most amazing delusions about her own talents." But Babbage's own memoir suggests she deserved credit for the "the algebraic working out of the different problems," and more recently she's been honored with, among other things, a British medal of honor, a <a href="http://www.google.com/doodles/ada-lovelaces-197th-birthday">Google Doodle </a>, a <a href="http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/articles/names-our-first-six-tunnel-boring-machines-announced">tunnel boring machine </a>in London, and her own annual celebration. In 2011, the <a href="http://adainitiative.org/2013/08/deleting-ada-lovelace-from-the-history-of-computing/">Ada Initiative </a>was founded to help promote women in computer science and open-source technology.<br /><br />Margaret Knight, paper bag machine: The paper bag machine, which is exactly what it sounds like, doesn't get as much love as the nuclear fission or the computer, and it probably shouldn't—it's a convenient but hardly breathtaking way to carry sandwiches. But Knight's invention, in 1868, is notable for the fight she went through to get credit. Her patent designs were quickly stolen by a man, who sought to have the patent issued in his name by arguing that a woman was incapable of such a breakthrough. It took three years, but Knight eventually won the case in court.<br /><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/paper-bag.jpg" /><br />Margaret Knight's paper bag machine Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />Elizabeth Magie, Monopoly: Charles Darrow, an unemployed heating salesman, traditionally gets credit for America's favorite homage to extortionist landlords. But <a href="http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/early-monopoly/">as PBS discovered in 2004 </a>, the board game actually had its start nearly three decades earlier when Magie, an acolyte of the economist Henry George, secured to the patent to The Landlord's Game. For her efforts in creating the country's most popular board game she received just $500 from Parker Brothers.<br /><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/monopoly.png" /><br />From Magie's original designs Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />Judy Malloy, hypertext fiction: A self-taught computer programmer, conceptual artist, and single mom working at a tech company in the early days of Silicon Valley, Malloy self-published a short story called <a href="http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/uncleroger/party_menu.html">Uncle Roger </a>in 1986.It's a wry take on California tech culture through the eyes of an eccentric computer chip salesman, and at the time, the experience of readingUncle Roger was totally new. It lived online (<a href="http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/uncleroger/party_menu.html">and still does </a>), and the reader clicked through fragments of the story in whatever order they chose, twisting and reshaping the narrative along the way. Malloy created an elaborate new database system to tell her story, with <a href="http://kathiiberens.com/2013/07/19/dh-2013/">32 UNIX shells </a>and a sophisticated search engine for its time. But in 1992, a New York Times book critic crowned the young novelist Michael Joyce's <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Afternoon.html">afternoon, a story </a>as the "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html">granddaddy of full-length hypertext fictions </a>," though Uncle Roger came first and Malloy's piece was acclaimed by the emerging digital art community as the earliest notable example of the form.<br /><img src="http://www.motherjones.com/files/meitner.jpg" /><br />Lise Meitner Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />Lise Meitner, nuclear fission: A student of Max Plank and the first German woman to hold a professorship at a German university, Meitner was forced to flee the country because of her Jewish ancestry. But she continued corresponding with her research partner, Otto Hahn, from Scandinavia, and in 1938 they first<a href="http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html">articulated </a>the idea of nuclear fission, which five years later would give rise to the atomic bomb. But Hahn left her name off his landmark paper, and when the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized the breakthrough in 1944, they gave the prize in chemistry to Hahn. Meitner eventually earned a more exclusive honor, though; in 1994 she was honored with an element—meitnerium, or Mt on the Periodic Table.<br /><br />Candace Pert, opioid receptor: When Pert, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins, protested that her professor, Dr. Solomon Snyder, had received an award for her discovery of the receptor allows opiates to lock into the brain, Snyder's response was curt: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/science/candace-pert-67-explorer-of-the-brain-dies.html?_r=0">That's how the game is played. </a>" Pert protested in a formal letter to the award committee ("As a graduate student who played a key role in initiating the research and following it up") and then, having thoroughly revolutionized neuroscience, got back to work. She was working toward a more effective treatment of Alzheimer's when she died in September.<br /><br /><b>Martha Coston, signal flares:</b> Coston was officially listed as "administratix" on the 1961 patent that revolutionized communication between US Navy vessels.Official credit for the invention went to her husband, Benjamin Franklin Coston—never mind that he had been dead for the 10 years she had worked with pyrotechnic engineers to turn his idea into a reality. (She received a patent in her own name, 12 years later, for a modified system.) Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600266385621261880.post-26977207594321006032013-10-21T12:17:00.001-07:002013-10-21T12:17:51.651-07:00PAULA CAPLAN'S LATEST ESSAYPaula Caplan's latest essay is about the book by feminist psychologist Phyllis Chesler, An American Bride in Kabul, which is based partly on the diaries she kept when, in 1961, at age 20, she -- from an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn -- fell in love with and married a man from a prominent family from Afghanistan and moved with him to Kabul. It's about what she learned there about the oppression of women, how she made a remarkable escape, what she subsequently learned about the context and history of what had happened to her, and how all of this helped impel her ardent feminist activism. <br /><br /><a name='more'></a>In the essay I also talk about how some people would have unreasonably claimed she somehow ought to have known that her husband would become instantly transformed, once back in Afghanistan, from the worldly, loving, artistic man she fell into love with into an unrecognizable figure who actively participated in controlling and restricting her. I write about my disagreement with that claim and connect it to a book I wrote long ago, The Myth of Women's Masochism.<br /><br />The essay is also about a new book, Blind to Betrayal, by feminist psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell, which is in an important sense a descendant of The Myth of Women's Masochism and in which they describe with great clarity and humanity the many understandable reasons -- not one of which is masochism -- that people, especially women, may for long periods of time fail to recognize the way individuals or institutions are betraying them.<br /><br />Please read the essay here -- <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-isnt-golden/201310/personal-nightmare-helped-shape-pioneer-feminist">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-isnt-golden/201310/personal-nightmare-helped-shape-pioneer-feminist</a>..<br /> <br />and check out these books! ... and let others know about them.<br /><br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Paula <a href="mailto:paulacaplan@gmail.com">paulacaplan@gmail.com</a>Jacqui Ceballoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00001696749738609681noreply@blogger.com0