Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Guys And Dolls: A Four Year Old Girl's Protest Against Gender-Stereotyped Toys

Why Do All The Girls Have To Buy Princesses?



Christmas 2011. A four year old little girl Riley has made a staggering observation about toys. Riley is fed up with toy stores trying to market pink stuff to girls and "different color" stuff to boys. Listen to this tiny genius: “Some girls like superheroes, some girls like princesses. Some boys like superheroes, some boys like princesses. So why do all the girls have to buy pink stuff and all the boys have to buy different color stuff?”

Preach it sista. 



Monday, May 20, 2013

Our Century's Greatest Injustice


In the last half century more girls were discriminated to death than all the people killed in all the battle fields in the 20th century.

The issue that rarely makes the front page is gender inequality. The single most essential and linear way to lift up entire communities out of poverty is by educating women, a fact that is over and over again ignored. This TEDtalk held by Sheryl WuDunn, the author of "Half the Sky" raises some painful statistics about women's oppression across the globe and demonstrates the magnificent difference educating women particularly in developing countries makes. Only when women are educated and brought into the formal labor system, will we be using all of our human resources to defeat the intimate social and physical violence that marks female bodies, and to overcome global challenges regarding poverty and politics of oppression.

Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice:




Thursday, May 16, 2013

Girl Power?


How movies teach manhood, TEDtalk: 

Women are not making it to the top of any profession, anywhere in the world.


A brilliant and insightful TED talk about why women't don't sit at the table or raise their hand and what are the consequences of these seemingly small differences.

"Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders" by Sheryl Sandberg

To watch more TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks