I found an article (click the word article to read it!) this week that talks about what started out as a school project for a group of girls at Duke, is now known as a world wide project called "who needs feminism?" This is how it works, anyone who wants to participate writes a personal response to the question "who needs feminism?" on a piece of paper. The message is photographed and posted onto either the groups Facebook page or tumbler. The goal of this is to spread awareness about what feminism really is. I think this a great idea! In today's world we are all caught up in our social networking sites, so what better way to get across a great message than through these sites we use everyday! By doing this I think it will really spread awareness about equality towards both men and women! It shows that people all over the world really do want equality! It is cool to see even men post pictures, to know that it's not just the women who want the equality!

Can men and women really ever be equal?

I found an awesome video this week on youtube! (scroll down and copy and paste the link that is under the picture to watch it, sorry I was facing some technical difficulties) It is actually pretty funny and has something great behind it. The title of the video is "why men and women can never be equal", so after reading that title I had to watch the video because I knew I didn't agree with it. During the video a man and a woman are on the subway and the woman is imitating everything the man does. Then the man takes his shirt off, and the woman couldn't do that in public. Not unless she is feeling a little deviant that day. This made me think, can women actually ever be equal? I believe that men and women can be equal to a certain point but, as hard as it is for me to say, their are things out there, like taking your shirt off on public transit, that may stop us from being FULLY equal. This doesn't mean that men are better and more capable than women, but that their are certain things that men can do women can't AND that women can do that men can't. But another part of me says the woman should be able to take her shirt off too!If you think about it, is it really possible for us ever to be equal, or is it just impossible because men and women are just so different in so many ways? OR do you believe that the woman should be able to take off her shirt on the subway?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1FKOuLQWA

Can us women have it all?

This week I found a New York Times article all about women working and being mothers as well. Can we have it all? the article points out that the society has seem to not make much progress supporting working mothers. But some companies do offer ore flexible hours if you do have children. It will probably be a long slow process towards this ideal work for women being fully accepted in society for being a working women. It might be that women, even men, in high demanding jobs, may just not be able to juggle bot the stresses of being a parent and the stresses of having an important position. Although this may be true, many mothers in the United States do obtain some of the most powerful positions. But there seem to be many younger men who say they want more time with their families. Maybe they will perhaps join forces for change or help re-imagine some of the toughest jobs. This article made me a little upset when it said that society has not yet made the change to support working mothers. I have to disagree with this though, we might not be 100% there, but I believe there are plenty of people that support them. Maybe it is just in our area, we live in a very liberal area of the United States that seem to be fine with mothers working and having a high position job. I can see how maybe in the south this not being socially acceptable. I think it would be very stressful for a women to have a high demanding job and have to parent a few kids, but I think us women can defiantly do it!