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I'll be glad to share chapters from my book draft about global young women's issues and activism. What looks interesting?Part 1 Themes
Chapter 1 The Future is Female 43 pages
Meet Young Women Leaders; What Motivates a Youth Activist?; the Future is Female?; Uppity Girls’ Rising Aspirations and Activism; Feminism, the United Nations and Governments Stimulate Equality; Young Men’s Viewpoints
Chapter 2 Global Desire for Equality 41
Equality is Desired Globally, More Females Desire Gender Equality, Girls Want Economic and Social Equality, Claims that Women Leaders are More Peaceful, Feminist Organizing, Inequality Persists in All Countries
Chapter 3 Global Status of Young Women 43
Rural Vs. Urban Sex Roles, Feminization of Poverty, Education, Health, Violence
Chapter 4 Consumerism Targets “Girl Power” 40
Materialistic Consumers of Products and Entertainment?; Teen Identity Through Consumption; Social Unrest from Rising Expectations; How Youth Are Manipulated by Multinational Corporations; Negative Consequences of Consumerism; Youth Views about Getting Rich; Traditional and Modern Beliefs: Moving Towards the Middle
Chapter 5 Global Media Both Helps and Inhibits Girls 42
Global Media is Pervasive, Global Media Provides New Information, Media Exposure Makes Youth Opinionated and Brave, Global Media Sells Consumerism, Media Addiction Creates Dumb Zombies
Part 2 Regions
Chapter 6 Feminist Waves in the West 49
Second Wave Feminists of the 60s, Women’s Studies, Inequality Persists, Generation Gap, Third Wave Response, Rejection of Feminism?, Fourth Wave
Chapter 7 Brave Women in Muslim Countries 61
The Middle East, Women and Islam, Iran, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia
Chapter 8 Egyptian Revolutionaries 36
Traditional Male Dominance; Education; A Pioneering Feminist: Dr. Nawal El Saadawi’s Egyptian Union for Women; Young Women in the Revolution; After the Revolution; Sexual Harassment Persists
Chapter 9 Women in Developing and Emerging Countries 56
Women and Development, Latin American Youth Issues, African Issues and Activists
Chapter 10 Feminism in India, an Emerging Superpower 52
Youth Issues, The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor, Hybrid Youth Culture and Attitudes, Youth Activism in Politics, Traditional Sexism, Feminism
Chapter 11 Socialist Countries--China and Russia 58
Part 1: China: The Setting, Traditional Beliefs, Rural vs. Urban Youth, Youth Issues in an Era of Change from Maoism to Capitalism, Current Chinese Issues
Part 2: Russia: History, Attitudes Towards Feminism, Consumerism and Glamour, Putin’s Nationalism vs. Rebels
gkimball at csuchico dot edu
Gayle wrote: "I'll be glad to share chapters from my book draft about global young women's issues and activism. What looks interesting?Part 1 Themes
Chapter 1 The Future is Female 43 pages
Meet Young Women Lea..."
Chapter 2 sounds so helpful!! Thanks so much!!!
email me and i'll send chpt 2 to you if you like.gkimball at csuchico dot edu
I would like Emma super-interviewer to interview school parents as well as students on numerous issues, since I believe interviewing and being interviewed is important part of mutual education, which idea may be tremendously unique but which I had studied from my late mother, the best educational counselor ever.For example, in Davos, Emma encouraged many business leaders regarding gender equality in employment. In the same way, I would like to see Emma interview anonymous Strugglong Friends/Friends' friends in such countries as in the US & numerous European nations, with which Emma has long been familiar, especially on those issues related to Gender Gap in employment (Note:The US, numerous European countries an Japan have shared lots of common economic problems.). Emma super-interviewer proven as such in Davos goes like:Do you have job currently? How long? How about your spouse/partner? Which country are you living in? Which area? How much income from your/your spouse or partner's job?
How about your housing cost? Is such job stable? Are you satisfied with said job? Do you have debts or loans? Is your family member going to school? How much does it cost you?Do you find Gender Gap in employment in your company, area or so? Would you like to ge Gender Equality achieved based on your daily life, or in relation to your goals? What is your goal? Have you ever postponed your goals due to Gender Gap in employment? Do you have a feeling that your household situation moving toward lower income household from for example middle income one? What kind of job are you doing? Has that industry to which your/your partner's job belongs been prosperous lately?Do you find it nearly impossible to keep your life at the same economic life level as used-be, unless both you and partner get jobs respectively? Do you find it difficult change your part-time job for example into full-time one? Is is difficult to get a raise/rise?Do you find Gender Inequality therein?
Is Gender Equality in employment vitally important to you?
How much do you spend on food yourself or in your household?
Could you spend money on purchasing books/magazines/newspapers every day? Do you have friends with whom you are discussing Gender Inequality in employment?
That's super-interviewer Emma!! I'm sure that Emma is going to educate and inspire us a lot, too!!
I'm also in high school and I find round table discussions are the best way of informing people on feminism. Let people speak and then think critically about what they've said and respond respectfully. I find personally that I learn and grow a lot from talking and listening to people who don't necessarily see eye to eye with me but if your goal is to educate then having a discussion where you ask a lot of 'why do you think that' and 'where did you get that mindset' to be pretty useful. Good luck!!!
I'm also in high school and I find round table discussions are the best way of informing people on feminism. Let people speak and then think critically about what they've said and respond respectfully. I find personally that I learn and grow a lot from talking and listening to people who don't necessarily see eye to eye with me but if your goal is to educate then having a discussion where you ask a lot of 'why do you think that' and 'where did you get that mindset' to be pretty useful. Good luck!!!
By great coincidence, Emma is going to have university tour in the near future. Eager to ask those students thereof watch Emma and Emma's UN wonderful friends' Video with 10 business leaders in Davos!! Eager to ask said university students to produce numerous questions related to said Video in advance, addressed to such people as said 10 business leaders , which all of questions,I hope, shall be then gathered & later asked by Emma herself directly to said business leaders respectively via Emma's re-interviewing them thereafter!!I think it makes a lot of sense, since university students will be more and more interested in gender equality in employment,discussed in Davos!! The studests' questions can be very general, since many students may not have had enough working experiences yet. Thus, very many questions of any sorts shall be of great help to further discussions on gender equality in general!!
This is partially cultural things, though. Eager to know feminism at school/university vs feminism in society. Also, More & more feminism would also produce more opportunities to know more interesting & wonderful people at school/university as well? ??These are additional questions I would like to ask to university students, although it sounds a little remote. By the way, I deeply respect President Obama in the US. I really always would like to know why President Obama could find such wonderful First Lady, wife & mother of distinguished two daughters. That kind of human touch questions alongside with feminist questions I also would like Emma to ask to someone like distinguished President Obama. Unbelievable to have such greatest FirstLady, wife & mother, right?Eager to know what President Obama did speak with future First Lady between the first day when they met at Chicago law firm as summer associate(President) and tutoring 3rd year associate(First Lady), when President Obama was a law student, and the date of first kiss on the street in Chicago while buying & eating ice cream (This famous story has been on the Net)that same summer?Stupid questions? No! Feminism should be part of real life. And meeting between President & First Lady is part of our human history. Honest! I believe in that!Did both's dedications to the equal rights make the two feel closer deep in their heart and mind at that time?These can be asked via superinterviewer Emma's personal touch questions. Because I believe true feminism make people together! Why not future spouses & partners at school/university, the work place and the society?
Check out Phoebe Hamilton-Jones' chapter on starting a feminist society in her girls' school in London in the anthology "I Call Myself a Feminist."
I believe school is everywhere!!Emma said recently that for her self growth, Emma selected self-study instead of going to school for one year, which Emma's comment I've found is super-, super-awesome!!
I believe HeForShe will constitute an innovative concept for the human history!! Therefore, I'm eager to see Emma to ask arts creators at the Public Theater: Have you had a feeling that you understand the concept of HeForShe well? What remains to be solved in understanding HeForShe further? Would you have any hesitation to join HeForShe? Why? Would you have feminist friends? Have you spoken with your spouse/partner on feminism? With friends?Have you been well informed of feminism?Have you had any misunderstanding of feminism? Would studying feminism possibly change your way of thinking? Your creative life? Would HeForShe inspire you? Would you like to discuss feminism with other people than arts creators? How audience would inspire your understanding of feminism? Would your real understanding of HeForShe inspire said audience? Do you think your understanding of HeForShe would inspire arts people other than the Public Theater? .....That's Emma, we respect deeply!! Since arts people in general are so greatly sarcastic that their frank & honest comments on understanding of current HeForShe and feminism would contribute a lot as feed-back information for the greater, super-awesome future growth of HeForShe & feminsm. Eager to ask Emma to ask them about their honest feedback from people like said arts people, with whom Emma is going to speak during and after arts week!! Eager to ask Emma to ask them about their very frank views!!
Arts week is approaching very soon!! Regardless of whether one belongs to "school" or not, everyone is in the same classroom for pragmatically getting Gender Equality achieved in this real world, I believe!! I think that's a kind of concept many New Yorkers would share. Especially New York Theater artists are down-to-earth in this regard. Some of them might sometimes think that they are too busy for everything other than arts!! Then, Emma would go like: What would you like to do, if any, out of your busy schedule besides pursuing arts? How many hours do you have for such other possible activities per day? How many hours do you or your colleagues have to work for supporting your arts pursuit per day? Do you have the time to think of feminism/HeForShe/Gender Equality? How much time for that per day? Would you be too busy for that? In other words, are you too busy for feminism or too busy to find the time to think of feminism? But you have the time to discuss how to attract greater number of audience with your colleagues, don't you? Have you ever discussed the possibility of gender equality as leverage for attracting greater number of audience......from NYC?From Tristate area? From all over the United States? HeForShe is innovative idea for getting Gender Equality achieved and at the same time for making our economic society prosperous... , which had been already shown by Emma's interviewing with 10 business leaders in Davos, no matter what industry you belong to!! Do a great New Yorker like you ever miss an invaluable opportunity to be innovative and to make both NYC life and your arts industry more attractive & prosperous? Are you still too busy to discuss HeForShe? Too busy to think of HeForShe as leveage for making your Theater more and more attractive from the rest of the United States? Okay!! Let's share the time!! That's Emma, whose one and only, original, encouraging interviewing method had been already firmly established in Davos!!I am sure that during Emma's interviewing/talking with NYC arts people throughout Arts week and thereafter, Emma will also collect/gather these arts people's tons of questions about HeForShe from their respective, unique perspectives, many of which shall be solved eventually!! Need not to be solved instantly, because all the issues must be respectively unique and also because arts week has time limitation!!Focusing on collecting/gathering questions will constitute great bases for getting Gender Equality achieved truly, I believe!!That way Emma will surely make entire NYC as one awesome school during Arts week!!
Speaking of school, I was deeply impressed when I learned from an article that Emma had selected super-awesome Brown University among other Ivy League Colleges because a Brown University student can take a very wide range of courses, including studying at other colleges. It’s super-Awesome!! That makes perfect sense, since Emma is always Renaissance type feminist!! Thus, Emma’s latest selection of self-study instead of going to school for a year is also super-awesome!! From this perspective, Emma’s future meeting/interviewing President Obama will be surely a great leverage for HeForShe. I am eager to see Emma ask President Obama about his impressions on HeForShe. At the same time, probably President Obama would find it mutually interesting to discuss his below-stated Jan 29 announcement with Emma!! In such interviewing, super-interviewer Emma goes like:President Obama, exactly one week after I interviewed 10 business leaders regarding gender equality & HeForShe in Davos, on January 29, you announced that you will take an awesome, new action for equal pay (See the below-stated article). Would you kindly explain its content to us? …
Let me focus on gender pay gap issues here. I know President Obama has been making tremendous efforts & achievements in this field without any doubt!
By the way, why has it been so difficult to correct such big pay gap between women and men? Have corporations been reluctant to change themselves? …… I guess your new rule would be completed around by September this year and said information gathered by the US government a year later?.... Mr President, I have a question, if I may. Are the US Government’s litigations against said terribly gender pay gap corporations prerequisite to disclosure of the names of such corporations to the public?
Is such arrangement as just disclosing their names in advance to the US Government’s litigations against said corporations too difficult to get realised immediately? Is there a legal reason, a political reason or combination of both?
Also I noticed that President Obama, on the same January 29, requested that the Congress cooperate with your thoughtful measure as allowing women to sue said corporations for punitive damages for pay gap. But allegedly some opposing opinions are saying such new measure “would lead to frivolous lawsuits.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/...
Correct me if I’m wrong, President Obama, I have a feeling that I’ve been kind of familiar with this sort of arguments. I had read various articles, including*
https://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/...
of which Pages 1466 & 1468 are basically saying that in the beginning of 90s at the time of then President George H W Bush, then Vice President Dan Quayle initiated and was in charge of that arguments, namely, “consumer torts litigations are not good for international competitiveness of numerous corporations.”
But this time in 2016, we have been observing tremendous gender pay gap within the said corporations, in the contractual relations between the employees and the said corporations.
Now, these points have nothing to do with “torts” or “consumer torts litigations”!! Am I correct,Mr President, in this regard? Would such early 90s arguments as “litigations would cost said corporations and thus would lessen their international competitiveness ” be applicable to said gender gap in 2016, Mr President?
Gender Equal Pay is certainly big plus not only for US economic prosperity but also these corporations as well, right?
Mr President, What would you now really like to say to the US Congress and the US People respectively on this gender pay gap issues? Thank you very much!! That’s super-interviewer Emma!!
I don't know if this is helpful, but I read an interesting article on a Feminist group in high school. I hope it inspires an idea in you!:http://girltalkhq.com/this-is-what-ha...
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So, I've taken it upon myself to educate my school about gender equality. I have enlisted the help of my schools Social Justice team and they are going to help me educate my school. But first, I have the task of educating the Social Justice team all by myself. I was wondering if anyone would be able to send me any information to help me, links, books suggestions, movie suggestions, anything will be helpful.
Thanks in advance- Jess <3