Weekly Update 3

Welcome to a week of uncovering stuff.  Really starting to dive in and beginning to find the meat of what my paper is going to talk about and focus on.  I have been basing my research aroudn the concept of:

"In what ways has technology changed the way globally woman are becoming leaders and changing to boundries of society and equality?"

Due to the nature of the topic, a lot of what I am reading is in the news.  Reports on women who life in nations where women are not given any rights, but because they learned how to use a computer and other technical skills they are able to create revenue generating ecommerce sites.  By generating a revenue not only are they able to escape from a world that is full of beatings, repression and/or punishment via death for disobaying, but they are uprising and changing the stories for societies as whole.

I began my research by digging in and finding articles about instances of what I spoke of above.  Looking at the woman who are now industry leaders in technology and the efforts they make to bring woman in to a world that was previously dominated by men. How can we globally educate and empower women to lead an industry with their innovation and show the world that no one will hold them down?

Issues: Okay so the biggest issues that the generally you find only news articles regarding this that have a clear voice.  Either the writter is happy to see the progression or they are clearly not amused that women are trying to uprise and take over the world.  Apparently to some writters when women marched and burned their bras that is where it should have ended...and now get back to the kitchen and cook us dinner.  The other issue that I am having is once you do find a good path to go down that will profile the story, struggle and/or other specific information that will show the history of their fight and uprising - it is usually in Vogue or People Magazine and relevant, ground breaking and industry leading information (or political reporcusions from their actions) are missing and all they are talking about is their shoes and what event they went to last.

Progress: I made good progress, I have an outline so I know where I am starting and when I am wanting to go.  I justneed to focus my efforts on the next coupld of weeks on getting the meat of the paper included.

Future Plan: Find more solid resources.  I may also focus sometime on digging a little deeper and trying to not so much focus on the people who have made the change but try and find someone out there who has already talked about this uprising and see if I can open a new path in my head.