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Shows an example of how we classify boys and girls' by their sex

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A video that sheds light on the social construction of gender

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A video that sheds light on the social construction of gender

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Is Gender a Social Construct? | Transgenders and Transtrenders

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In this video I examine the question "Is gender a social construct?" and explore how the issue relates to transgenders and transtrenders. While gender and sex aren't the same thing, despite what social justice warriors may say, they're still related.

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Picture of how Gender could be portrayed

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cover to a book by author Emily W. Kane

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a meme that shows some contradiction to the feminist movement

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a picture found online about the white straight male privelege

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a picture found online about the white straight male privelege

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a funny youtube video cover about how all males don't have male privileges

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article about how when you are accustomed to being privileged, equality feels like opression

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At the tail end of 2016, the CEOs of 27 large companies made an unprecedented announcement : they pledged to have 50% of their top leadership roles filled by women by the year 2030. To achieve the goal, they identified key actions for senior managers including:
"...address unconscious bias; base advancement on performance rather than time in the office; promote women into operating roles with responsibility for profit and loss; set targets and communicate them; and actively sponsor promising female leaders."
Executives in the EU and Australia have similar coalitions in place.

Time to break out the champagne, right? Not so fast. Surprisingly-or perhaps unsurprisingly , depending on how cynical you are-not everyone agrees that we need more gender equality initiatives. In fact, there are many men and some women who think actions like calls to promote women into operating roles, setting targets and sponsoring promising women are frankly unnecessary and unfair.

Experience tells us is that the companies participating in this 2030 (and other similar) initiatives will likely face backlash from women and men who believe that the playing field is already level, that their companies are meritocracies and that everything is just fine, thank you (and if for some strange reason it isn't, the problems of women's advancement lie with women). These people inevitably raise "concerns" about or objections to these initiatives that sound something like this:

"Why not just appoint the best person for the job?"

It should always be about getting "the best person for the job."

"Aren't you worried about people being promoted just because of who they are, not what they can do? Isn't it that discrimination? Isn't it unfair? "

"This means that women whose hard work earns them professional success find their achievements downplayed due to the shadow of enforced quotas."

And perhaps the most disheartening refrain:

"We don't want to threaten/alienate/upset/exclude the men."

At the bottom of all of these comments lies a discomfort based on the belief that the workplace is a zero-sum game. In other words, if women are advancing, men aren't. Or if some women are advancing, other women aren't. But the truth is that when women aren't in the equation, everyone suffers. Decades of studies have proven that on average, companies with higher percentages of women at the top perform better financially than companies without. This isn't discrimination; it's simple math.

Unexamined privilege

One of the realities behind these objections is a lack of understanding of how privilege can warp what "equality" really feels like.

At some point, strangers on the internet began sharing the following quote:
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
No one has been able to pinpoint the author , but the idea is an important one: that privilege often seems like equality to the privileged, and that real equality can make everyone suddenly feel very uncomfortable and off-balance.

One of the questions that the LeanIn/McKinsey 2016 Women in the Workplace report asked was this: Why don't employees prioritize gender diversity? How did such a simple goal (equality!) come to be such a complicated reality?
Blue represents Men/Orange represents Women
The report found that three of the top five reasons for not prioritizing diversity fell broadly under the idea that focusing on gender diversity somehow creates inequality: that it places lower priority on performance, that it means favoritism, or that it highlights differences instead of commonalities.

If you are working to close the leadership gender gap, it's essential not just that you understand that people react negatively to diversity initiatives, but that you be able to explain why they have such knee-jerk reactions. Naysayers need to hear clearly and calmly (and straight from the horse's mouth) that when you're accustomed to privilege, equality can feel unfair. But that doesn't mean it is.
Wondering about the handsome fellow giving advice "straight from the horse's mouth?" It's one of the mounts along for the ride during my last Wilderness Pack Trips horsecamping trip in Yellowstone.
Lead ON!

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When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.

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At the tail end of 2016, the CEOs of 27 large companies made an unprecedented announcement : they pledged to have 50% of their top leadership roles filled by women by the year 2030.

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What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? What do we mean by LGBTQIA? How are these concepts related to the workplace? How have our understandings of these terms changed over time, and how have these changes impacted work and culture? To help you answer these important questions, this course will introduce you to the exciting field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, and to LGBTQIA identities. We will use a range of interdisciplinary concepts, tools, and methods to understand and analyze how identity shapes our experiences in culture and in the workplace. Because we all live with gender expectations, this course is crucial for any profession, and for understanding the world around us. Also, you will learn key concepts that will help you to interpret and understand the world we share.

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Intersectionality - The History of Gender and Gender in Theory | Coursera

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Video created by University of Pittsburgh for the course "Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace". This week, we cover a range of topics on gender including the evolution of ideas about gender, the history of gender in the ...

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Washington post article and video about female opression in saudi arabia

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For the second time in three years, dozens of Saudi women are getting behind the wheel to protest their country's practice of forbidding driver's licenses for women. The de facto ban on female drivers is Saudi Arabia's best-known restriction against women, a symbol of the larger system of gender-based law that makes it one of the worst countries for women, according to the World Economic Forum's annual report on gender rights.

Saudi Arabia's restrictions on women go far, far beyond just driving, though. It's part of a larger system of customs and laws that make women heavily reliant on men for their basic, day-to-day survival. This video, produced by Amnesty U.K. in 2011, a few months after Saudi women's rights activists staged their last protest drive, helps explain just how it works to be a woman in Saudi Arabia. (Fair warning, the video has an offbeat sense of humor, which I wrote about here.)

If you couldn't make it through the video, here's the rundown: each Saudi woman has a "male guardian," typically their father or brother or husband, who has the same sort of legal power over her that a parent has over a child. She needs his formal permission to travel, work, go to school or get medical treatment. She's also dependent on him for everything: money, housing, and, because the driving ban means she needs a driver to go anywhere, even the ability to go to the store or visit a friend.

It's one thing for women to depend on men to go anywhere, putting their movement under male veto power. But it's quite another when they also must have a man's approval to travel abroad, get a job or do just about anything that involves being outside of the home. It consigns women to second-class-citizenship, which is unfortunately common in a number of countries, but goes a step further in Saudi Arabia. Saudi women have many of their most basic rights reduced to probationary privileges, granted only if the man who is assigned as their "guardian" feels like granting them. And because women are typically forbidden to interact with men who are not family members, they've got little to no recourse beyond that guardian. The almost complete lack of political rights doesn't help, either.

The restrictions go beyond the law: women are often taught from an early age to approach the world outside their male guardian's home with fear and shame. A 1980s "educational flyer" still posted at a school in Buraydah warned against the "dangers that threaten the Muslim woman," such as listening to music, going to a mixed-gender mall or answering the telephone. It drove home that "danger" with an image of a women, in a full black burqa, being stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife.

Saudi women's rights activists get this, of course, and even though they're focusing their energy on overturning the driving ban, it's clear they see it as part of a larger effort against part of a much bigger system of oppression. The movement for driving rights that began in mid-2011 has not changed that law, but Saudi women have won some modest rights as a result, including representation in the country's officially powerless but high-visibility Shoura Council, which they're in turn using to amplify their campaign against the driving ban. Saudi women are facing a much bigger challenge than just a driving ban, as this video shows, but it also helps to show just how remarkable it is that they've accomplished as much as they in as little time.

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Saudi Arabia's oppression of women goes way beyond its ban on driving

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For the second time in three years, dozens of Saudi women are getting behind the wheel to protest their country's practice of forbidding driver's licenses for women. The de facto ban on female drivers is Saudi Arabia's best-known restriction against women, a symbol of the larger system of gender-based law that makes it one of the worst countries for women, according to the World Economic Forum's annual report on gender rights.

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a visual that shows women superior over man with an emphasis on her physical sexuality

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a visual that shows women superior over man with an emphasis on her physical sexuality

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shows the newness of this term

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It's been around since the late 1980's but intersectionality is a word that's new to many of us. It's used to refer to the complex and cumulative way that the effects of different forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, and yes, intersect-especially in the experiences of marginalized people or groups.

Lately the word seems to be popping up everywhere:

[Audre] Lorde is the authority on intersectionality - the crucial ways in which identities (race, gender, sexuality) converge. - Maria Yagoda, People.com, 7 Jan. 2016

... [Gene Luen Yang's] anthology [American Born Chinese] - three intertwined tales about Chinese identity and intersectionality ... - J. E. Reich, Tech Times, Jan. 2016

... a celebration of intersectionality, which mandates that the full breadth of our humanity be acknowledged and embraced. - Opal Tometi and Gerald Lenoir, Time, 10 Dec. 2015

The term was coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in a 1989 essay that asserts that antidiscrimination law, feminist theory, and antiracist politics all fail to address the experiences of black women because of how they each focus on only a single factor. Crenshaw writes that "[b]ecause the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated."

Though originally applied only to the ways that sexism and racism combine and overlap, intersectionality has come to include other forms of discrimination as well, such as those based on class, sexuality, and ability.

Along with the noun intersectionality has come the related adjective intersectional:

... privilege is intersectional-a low income white woman will have a different set of privileges and disadvantages than I as a middle class brown woman do ... - Mehak Anwar, Bustle, 6 Jan. 2016

Intersectionality isn't a term without controversy. People object to the technical nature of the term and the concepts it addresses (it doesn't hide its academic origins very well), and it's been described by some as divisive. Those objections notwithstanding, it looks like it may very well be a word that's here to stay.

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It's been around since the late 1980's but intersectionality is a word that's new to many of us. It's used to refer to the complex and cumulative way that the effects of different forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, and yes, intersect-especially in the experiences of marginalized people or groups.

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Video teaching tolerance of intersectionality

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Video teaching tolerance of intersectionality

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meme about how we are all in this together!

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picture showing the activism is a world wide thing

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another picture that compares the oppression of women to slavery and the activism of women wearing these shirts

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feminist movement drawing on the closed fist of the black panthers to show unity.

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LONDON - Meghan Markle does not appear to be reining in her feminist views since her traditional-yet-modern nuptials to Prince Harry.

On her new page on the British monarchy's official website - in pulled out quotes - the woman now known as the Duchess of Sussex says, "I am proud to be a woman and a feminist," referencing a line from a 2015 speech she gave at a United Nations event.

Her biography on the site emphasizes her early activism, including how, at age 11, she took on Procter & Gamble for a commercial claiming that "women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans." After Meghan's intervention, the company changed the ad to "people all over America."

"These early experiences helped to shape her lifelong commitment to causes such as social justice and women's empowerment," the website says.

The website also notes her volunteer work at soup kitchens in Los Angeles, her home town, and Toronto, where she filmed "Suits," as well as her work as a women's advocate for the United Nations and a global ambassador for World Vision Canada.

Many campaigners here are looking to see whether Meghan dials back her activism upon joining the royal family. On the one hand, she now has a new, global platform. On the other, she will be expected to stay clear of party politics. She once called President Trump a "misogynist" and posted an anti-Brexit picture on her (now-deleted) Instagram feed. These kinds of political interventions are now a no-no, but many are curious to see whether she will continue to speak out on feminism and racial issues.

As seen at the wedding ceremony, which included a passionate sermon by the Most Rev. Michael Curry (who seemed to blindside some royals with enthusiastic talk of love and emotion), a gospel choir, a black cellist and a black Church of England priest, Meghan is not downplaying her biracial heritage.

And at the wedding reception, held at Frogmore House, Meghan reportedly bucked tradition by giving her own speech. She is said to have thanked Harry and the royals for their kindness and generosity. According to the Daily Mail, Harry responded with a speech of his own, saying "we make such a great team" and "I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you." (In what is probably another royal first, they reportedly handed out slippers to guests who wanted to swap out their high heels.)

Other royals have actively supported women's issues. Prince Charles's wife, Camilla, for instance, is president of the Women of the World Festival and has advocated against domestic violence and female genital mutilation.

But this is the first time a senior royal has loudly declared herself a feminist on the monarchy's official Web page.

Some feminists said they hope this is just the beginning.

"I hope as a member of Royal family she still believes in feminism, and will work for women's equal rights," tweeted author and feminist Taslima Nasreen.

Carole Easton, chief executive of the Young Women's Trust, said that it was "fantastic" that Meghan is "so committed to championing women's rights. Now really is the time for action on this issue."

Read more:
At the royal wedding, some things very old and some things new The surprise star of the royal wedding: U.S. Bishop Michael Curry

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LONDON - Meghan Markle does not appear to be reining in her feminist views since her traditional-yet-modern nuptials to Prince Harry. On her new page on the British monarchy's official website - in pulled out quotes - the woman now known as the Duchess of Sussex says, "I am proud to be a woman and a feminist," referencing a line from a 2015 speech she gave at a United Nations event.

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website to get involved in the feminist movement

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website to get involved in the feminist movement