Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Post #2 - I'm A Know It All!

Hello there again, Gladys err Meg here again!

The question that is being posed this week is what do I already know about my topic without spending anytime researching it.  Well since I am writing about the new age feminism movement and how technology is being used to progress social equality...and there are many things I already know about that topic as it is close to home for myself.

#1: Because technology is something that can be use in privacy without the need for a lot of people to know exactly what you are doing and/or where you are doing it - women in countries who previously were extremely NOT progressive about woman in the work force have recently been highly successful of starting online businesses and turning themselves in to Founder & CEO of their own companies allowing them not only the means but also unlimited resources to change their lives and situations.

#2: There is a long standing history of women taking a stand in many different manners that have lead us today.  Women have fought the battles of being allowed to vote, making a fair wage, burring their bras, and etc.  However, those events were always really highly publicized by the media.  The things that are not well known, the starting blocks if you will, tell us that it was a woman that requested the first divorce from an abusive husband, it was a woman who fought her way in to medical school in the 1800's when she was never going to be anything other than a nurse, and it was a woman who reformed the way Hollywood handled labor laws in order to protect the children who didn't have a voice that anyone would listen too of their own.

#3: With the current shift over the past decade or so of woman in the workplace and more so in the upper management level of the workplace, the shift in educational settings is changing as well.  Before in programs based on IT, Welding, Mechanical Engineering and etc, that were always taken by mostly men, women are finding their place there as well.  We are seeing them excel, we are seeing them preform at a higher level then the men in the same program and throughout their career we are seeing them surpass the male workers to take over the management positions and drive change all around them.  

This is where I am starting - but I am out of time this week - Till next time!
Meg

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