Events
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We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. Maria Montessori
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Rumi
A Message to Corporate America
Companies – where are you!? Asking on behalf of America’s women here!
Y’all just gonna let this Texas anti-abortion bill pass and do …nothing?
All you companies who pride yourselves on your “diversity,” all you companies who market to women, and all you companies who happily line up on breast cancer awareness month: where are you now?
You think you can sit this one out?! Y’all just gonna let this one slide because “it doesn’t affect you?” Do you really think this is about ‘religion’ so you should stay away from the issue? Please. Of course it’s not.
This is a fundamental across-the-board attack on women, especially, but not only, poorer, blacker, and browner women. But watch it, companies – we are all standing together on this one.
Oil companies are all over Texas – Halliburton, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and their friends. Okay, I don’t expect you to line up with anyone except your own bottom line. You’re willing to let the planet be destroyed; no one expects more of you.
But Sysco – provider of food to America’s restaurants and schools? Dell? Hewlett-Packard? American Airlines? Kimberly-Clark? D.R. Horton, who probably built your suburban home? USAA – those ‘friendly’ insurers?
And you celebrity endorsers of all these products? We see your faces! Do you want to be associated with the most anti-female legislation in America? Really?
Boardrooms and PR teams: be on notice. I may be small, but I have many sisters. As far as I’m concerned, you can forget any flight on American, or investment in Sysco, or insurance with USAA, or that next HP product for Christmas.
Wake up, corporate America. You control legislators and you know it. Step up to the plate.
Prompted by Companies Stay Quiet on Texas’ New Abortion Law, New York Times, September 3, 2021.
PS Sports teams, you’re next.
Upcoming Events
Systemic Change for Gender Equality: The Basics
I talk a lot about systemic change for gender equality. Nine times out of ten, I watch people’s eyes glaze over at the very mention of the phrase: it’s too abstract, too academic, too wordy, too anti-male, definitely too something. This is unfortunate. So I offer the...
Cuomo: Three Fallacies
Cuomo: Three Conditioned Fallacies That Helped This Abuse Persist The universal privilege accorded white men, especially powerful white American men, is so omnipresent we almost don’t see it. But the Cuomo investigation and subsequent resignation make clear a few...
Albany Times-Union Article
Albany Times-Union: read it HERE and below. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s political fate will almost certainly be resolved in the political arena. But regardless of what happens there, let’s not lose sight of the bigger issue that the allegations of his sexual misbehavior...
Select Resources: Gender Equality Issues
Once you know to start looking, resources abound. This list is merely the tip of the iceberg. It is designed mainly for educators and those who attended my webinars or lectures. Enjoy! General Global Gender Gap Report - 2021 (World Economic Forum) - a font of useful...
Reading Recommendations
SPOILED – the Film Version. Watch it NOW!
I first began developing the concept that would become SPOILED when I lived in India. I became convinced we needed to look at gender-based violence from a male perspective; it was clear we needed to do more to understand how our societies produce attitudes and...
Cuomo and Women – Is this Corruption? My .02
Many are struggling with the abuse of power vis a vis women aspect of the Cuomo scandal (I am not addressing the nursing home issue here). People are trying to weigh and value these alleged abuses, often comparing them to the “good” Cuomo has done. They are trying to...
Root Causes of Gender-Based Violence
From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, November 20, 2020. Picture all the women you ever dated, or all the women you knew from high school, or the women in your family. Take a minute. No rush. Now count off by threes. Chances are, those one-in-three women – those women you...
Article in Montessori Leadership Magazine
Gender Equity in the Classroom: What it Looks Like and What You Can Do Read my suggestions for helping the next generation be more gender-equitable, published in the new edition of Montessori Leadership, available online and on your local newsstand now. Especially...
The Holstee Manifesto…
