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Christina Sommers@CHSommers
8 mars
My remarks to @politico: American women are among the safest, freest, healthiest, most opportunity-rich women on Earth. Yet a debilitating new trauma-centered feminism tells them they are fragile & wounded. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2019
What Are the Biggest Problems Women Face Today?
Sarah Abdallah@sahouraxo
Plus Sarah Abdallah a retweeté CNN
That awkward moment when the war criminal who implied there was a special place in hell for women who don’t support Hillary Clinton wants to lecture us about women’s empowerment.
"I empower women to have confidence in themselves and work hard," says the first female US Secretary of State @madeleine. #IWD2019 http://cnn.it/2Tue6xB
Julien L. Rochedy@JRochedy
8 mars
Le médecin qui prescrit les antidépresseurs au héros du dernier roman de Michel Houellebecq, finit par lui dire :
« Vous mourrez de chagrin et vous ne cesserez de grossir ».
Métaphoriquement, nous pourrions dire la même chose à l’Occident.
Cheyenne Carron@cheyennecarron
8 mars
Avant de mourir, je serai heureuse de voir rétablis en France le baise-main et les duels à l'épée. Je quitterai ce monde apaisée.
Julien L. Rochedy@JRochedy
8 mars
#JourneeDeLafemme et tout ce que songe à faire @franceculture et le service public français, ce sont des émissions pour expliquer que la galanterie est une mauvaise chose. Comme s'il n'y avait pas d'autres priorités.
Il y a vraiment quelque chose de profondément malade en France
Julien L. Rochedy
8 mars
Plus Julien L. Rochedy a retweeté France Culture
Allez-y. Déconstruisez la galanterie et tout ce que des centaines d'années de civilisation ont faites pour améliorer l'homme et les rapports hommes/femmes. Vous êtes certains que cette déconstruction mènera à encore mieux. Vous avez tort. Vous récolterez la barbarie.
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France Culture
On entend souvent parler de "galanterie à la française"... mais c'est quoi au juste ? Une pure construction sociale, selon les historiennes Laure Murat et Michelle Perrot, qui sont bien décidées à briser le mythe du "gentleman". #JourneeDeLaFemme
hacene Chouchaoui
@haceneChouchaou
En réponse à @franceculture @letellier_ftv
La déconstruction et le révisionnisme historique sont en marche. L'amour courtois a bien vu le jour en France dès le moyen âge et s'est répandu grâce aux_ troubadours et autres trouvères...
Laurence A.Gougeon@lazgougeon
En réponse à @haceneChouchaou @franceculture
What Are the Biggest Problems Women Face Today?
Eleven female lawmakers, journalists and
scholars weigh in.
By POLITICO MAGAZINE
March 08, 2019
THE FRIDAY COVER
It’s been a historic year for women. There are
more serving in Congress than ever before, and a record number are currently
running for president in 2020. But even with these significant gains,
women—both in the U.S. and around the world—can still find gender equality
elusive.
For International Women’s Day this year, we
asked some of the most interesting women we know—including several of those
aforementioned lawmakers and presidential candidates—to tell us: What do you
think is the biggest challenge facing women in the U.S. today? And what do you
think is the biggest challenge facing women internationally today? Here’s what
they had to say.
***
The lack of women in positions of power
Amy Klobuchar is a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota. She is running for president in 2020.
Amy Klobuchar is a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota. She is running for president in 2020.
One of the struggles that underlies all of our
policy battles is the continued lack of women in positions of power. From
corporate boardrooms, to the courts and political leadership around the world,
the lack of women in senior positions continues to stymie progress on issues
from pay to humanitarian aid to discrimination in all its forms. The sooner we
understand that the lack of women in leadership roles holds back not only
women, but all people, the sooner we will be able to advance society as a
whole.
***
Patriarchy
Keisha N. Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (2018) and co-editor of several books, including To Turn The Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (2019).
Keisha N. Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh and currently serves as president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (2018) and co-editor of several books, including To Turn The Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (2019).
The biggest challenge facing women in the
United States today is patriarchy. This is especially evident in the realm of
politics. Regardless of a woman’s experience, education or abilities, the
patriarchal nature of U.S. society fosters the perception that women are less
qualified and less competent than men. What patriarchy has done is convince
people that a strong and intelligent woman represents a problem; a disruption
to the social order rather than an integral part of it. Biased media coverage
of women politicians—stories that focus on women’s fashion and looks at the
expense of their ideas on policy—underscores this point. It is therefore no
coincidence that the U.S. is completely out of step with the rest of the world
when it comes to electing a woman as president. While women have maintained the
highest office of leadership in Liberia, India, the United Kingdom, Dominica
and many other
nations across the globe, the same cannot be said for the United States.
From a global perspective, one of the biggest
challenges facing women is educational inequality. Despite the many gains of modern
feminist movements in the Americas, Africa, Asia and beyond, many still believe
that women are less worthy of the same educational opportunities afforded to
men. While there is no denying that poverty, geography and other factors
contribute to huge disparities in education, patriarchy justifies this denial
of opportunity. It feeds the message that men should wield the power and women
should occupy a subordinate position in all areas of society. This outdated,
yet persistent, point of view fuels educational inequality and a host of other
disparities along the lines of gender on national and international
levels.
***
Not enough women at the table
Kamala Harris is a Democratic U.S. senator from California. She is running for president in 2020.
Kamala Harris is a Democratic U.S. senator from California. She is running for president in 2020.
I don’t think it’s possible to name just one
challenge—from the economy to climate change to criminal justice reform to
national security, all issues are women’s issues—but I believe a key to
tackling the challenges we face is ensuring women are at the table, making
decisions. Something I’ve seen over and over again in my own career is that
women in power bring a different perspective, an essential perspective. We made
great strides in 2018, with an unprecedented number of women running for
office, and over 100 women sworn in to the 116th Congress. But we still have a
long way to go; the U.S. ranks 75th out of 193 countries in terms of women’s
representation in government. And, this is truly a global issue. If you’re
trying to tackle the world’s problems, you should hear from half the world’s
population. So, we need to keep speaking up on behalf of every woman’s right to
be heard and realize her power. My mother used to tell my sister and me, “You
may be the first, but make sure you aren’t the last.” I’ve never forgotten
that.
***
Sexism, racism and economic inequality
Rebecca Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut.
Rebecca Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut.
The extremely potent combination of sexism,
racism and economic inequality—this may seem like too broad an answer but it
pretty much covers it on both a domestic and global front. All of the
individual challenges we may be tempted to rank are symptomatic of these
massive systemic power imbalances, working in tandem.
***
Trauma-centered feminism
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of several books including Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys. She co-hosts The Femsplainers. Follow her @Chsommers.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of several books including Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys. She co-hosts The Femsplainers. Follow her @Chsommers.
The threat of harm is a human constant, but by
any reasonable measure, American women are among the safest, freest,
healthiest, most opportunity-rich women on Earth. In many ways, we are not just
doing as well as men, we are surpassing them. But everywhere, especially on
college campuses, young women are being taught that they are vulnerable,
fragile and in imminent danger. A new trauma-centered feminism has taken hold.
Its primary focus is not equality with men—but rather protection from them.
This past June, the Reuters Foundation released a surveyannouncing that the U.S. was one of the top 10
most dangerous countries in the world for women—more dangerous than even Iran
or North Korea. The study was ludicrously flawed and turned out to be a survey of
“perceptions” of unnamed “experts.” But in the current environment of fear and
panic, multiple news organizations reported the absurd findings. This new ethic
of fear and fragility is poisonous and debilitating—but it’s gaining ground.
American women should resist the urge to pretend the world is rigged against us
when it is not.
The picture is different in the developing
world. In countries like Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia and Egypt women are
contending with practices such as honor killings, genital mutilation, acid
burnings, child marriage and gender apartheid. However, there is good news. The
number of educated women in these countries has reached critical mass and they
are making their presence felt. Wajeha Al-Huwaider has been called the “Rosa
Parks of Saudi Arabia.” In 2008, she created an international sensation
by posting a video of herself driving a
car. Until a few months ago, women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
Because of women like her, the laws are beginning to change. Dr. Hawa Abdi, a
71-year-old Somalian doctor and lawyer, is said to be “equal parts Mother
Teresa and Rambo.” She founded a hospital and refugee
camp in rural
Somalia that offers a safe space to nearly 100,000 of the world’s most
imperiled men, women and children. Under her leadership, the settlement is
evolving into a model civil society. The challenges facing women in the
developing world are daunting. But for the first time in history, a formidable
army of brave and resolute women is on the march.
***
Access to equal opportunity
Ertharin Cousin is distinguished fellow of Global Food and Agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the former executive director of the United Nations World Food Program.
Ertharin Cousin is distinguished fellow of Global Food and Agriculture at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the former executive director of the United Nations World Food Program.
As the former executive director of the World
Food Program I was often humbled by women in conflict or crisis situations who,
when asked about their needs, wanted nothing for themselves but asked that we
educate their daughters. Education, these mothers believed, would provide their
daughters with opportunities they, because of their gender, were denied.
Unfortunately, even with adequate education, women here in the United States as
well as women across much of the world still lack equal access to opportunity.
Despite decades of notable progress, at home
and abroad, a reality in which opportunities are not defined by gender has yet
to be universally achieved. Even more disconcerting, in too many places around
the globe, women exercising or even seeking their basic rights is interpreted
as a direct and destabilizing challenge to existing power structures. Some
regimes are now trying to roll back the hard-won rights of women and girls. For
this reason, today I join the voices of women leaders from around the world
demanding governments, the private sector and civil society reinvigorate and
reinvest in the policies as well as in the legal and social frameworks that
will achieve worldwide gender equality and inclusion.
Here in the U.S. we recently elected a record
number of new congressional representatives. In other parts of the world,
political forces threaten to erode the progress that we have made at both the
national level and through landmark global agendas. Whether these forces
succeed will depend on whether women leaders and advocates of today and
tomorrow, and all who stand with them, recognize the urgency and peril of
inaction. Mothers and fathers whether in South Sudan or the South Side of
Chicago, are doing their part to demand quality education for their daughters.
It is up to women leaders and advocates, including the newly minted
congressional leaders, many of whom benefit from past collective effort and
stand upon the shoulders of so many, to push and hold wide open the doors of
opportunity. Ensuring every woman and girl a possibility to lead life to her
fullest potential.
***
The lack of respect for caregiving
Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America.
Women in the United States who are
caregivers—for children, parents, spouses, siblings or extended family
members—have two full-time jobs, while trying to compete with men who have one.
And over half of us are the primary breadwinners in our households. The
standard response is to persuade men to “help” more. But we need a sea-change,
one that can happen only with a normative revolution around the value of care.
We must come to see care work—the work of investing in others through physical
care, teaching, coaching, mentoring, connecting, advising and navigating—as
work that is every bit as hard, important and rewarding as the more
individualist work that focuses us on investing in ourselves. We must value
care monetarily, by paying far more for it through government and private
investment, and socially, by raising the prestige of caregiving at home and
care careers (which are among the fastest growing job categories and relatively
automation proof). In other words, we must come to see traditional “women’s
work” as truly equal to traditional “men’s work.”
Women in the world, particularly in developing
and middle-income countries, face the far more elemental problem of still being
considered property. Saudi Arabia’s system, for one, is open about this
relationship, requiring women to get the permission of their male “guardian” to
enroll in school, travel or take a job. But in many countries, women are still
forced to be legally and socially subservient to men, with no means of gaining
financial or social independence, much less equal agency. A global women’s
movement must thus focus on creating legal and social conditions in which women
and men have equal access to nutrition, health care, education, jobs and the
ability to control their bodies and choose a mate. We will be making progress
when parents around the world greet the birth of a girl with equal pleasure and
expectation as the birth of a boy.
***
Navigating career and motherhood
Margaret Hoover is the host of “Firing Line.”
Margaret Hoover is the host of “Firing Line.”
As a working mother of two young children, I
believe that the big challenge facing working women is navigating career
opportunities while maximizing motherhood. The good news is that economic and
political freedom for American women of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds
is the highest it’s ever been. Working moms do have the luxury of “leaning in”
to either their careers or motherhood, but rarely both at once. Enabling a
mother to re-enter the workforce where she left off should be commonplace. But
solving the “on-ramp problem” for talented women who choose to pause their
careers to prioritize family life still eludes us.
The biggest challenge facing women
internationally is the fundamental inequality of political and economic
opportunity that the majority of women in the world face, but that Americans
take for granted. A 21st century feminism should work to extend the human
rights, political freedoms, economic opportunities enjoyed by women in the West
to our sisters globally.
***
Increasing rates of maternal mortality
Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the forthcoming, A Black Women’s History of the United States (Beacon, 2020).
Daina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the forthcoming, A Black Women’s History of the United States (Beacon, 2020).
One of the greatest challenges women in the
U.S. and women throughout the world face today are increasing rates of maternal
mortality. According to the World Health Organization, 830 women die every day
from “preventable
causes related to pregnancy.” These statistics are even more staggering in developing countries
and among women of color in the United States. Black women in particular are
the most affected, dying at a ratio of 25.1 deaths per 100,000. According to
the Journal of Perinatal Education, the rates for black women did not improve
between 1980 and 1990, and these rates are not much better today. Some believe
such disparities occur because of a racially divided society in which black
women experience higher levels of stress and marginalization causing many of
their health concerns to go unrecognized. This leads to untimely and
preventable deaths.
***
A campaign to normalize misogyny
Neera Tanden is president of the Center for American Progress.
Neera Tanden is president of the Center for American Progress.
The greatest challenge confronting women in
America is a campaign to normalize misogyny and take women’s rights backward.
It starts with a president who has a long track
record of
making disgusting and demeaning statements about women. Perhaps even worse, his
administration has translated these attitudes into concrete action. For
example, despite the rise of the MeToo movement, the Department of Education
has actually introduced measures to provide greater protections for college
students accused of committing sexual harassment and assaultby undermining
Title IX. President
Donald Trump has also hurt working women and their families by suspending a
federal rule designed
to close the gender pay gap, introduced significant
restrictions on
reproductive freedom, and threatened the future of Roe v. Wade by
nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
On the global front, perhaps the most important
issue for the international community is empowering the
voices of women.
Right now, women and young girls everywhere face an immense range of
challenges—from the inability to access food, education and employment to the
threat of gender-based violence. Their perspectives and experiences must help
shape our collective future. If we want to forge the best solutions for
expanding peace and security moving forward, then we need to give smart,
dynamic and strong women a seat at the decision-making table—both here at home
and around the world.
***
READ MORE
By BILL SCHER
By RICH LOWRY
The economy is not working for women
Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She is running for president in 2020.
Elizabeth Warren is a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She is running for president in 2020.
Women are the primary or joint breadwinners for
a majority of American households. But right now, this economy and our
government is not working for them and their families. Today, a woman earns 80
cents for every dollar a man earns, and the pay gap is even worse for black and
Latina women. Wages are barely budging in this country but the cost of child
care has gone up so much that it’s now more expensive than in-state college
tuition in most states—making it harder for women and men to work if they want
to. Reproductive rights have been under relentless attack even though we know
that access to safe abortion services is critical to the health and economic
futures of millions of women.
These core economic issues are a huge burden on
women and their families. More young women go to college than men, but unequal
pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. More women are
minimum-wage workers than men, but the minimum wage no longer keeps a mom and
her baby out of poverty. I don’t even want to think about how many women—and
men —have been sidelined from a bright future because they couldn’t find a
decent child care option for their kid. We’ve got to make this economy work for
women and families all across this country.
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