https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu Research Project en-us 2018-12-11 16:43:48 UTC 2018-12-18 23:47:31 UTC hello@padlet.com ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313492808 This article calls out white people in a respectful and subtle way while informing and educating them. The themes and topics presented in the article are relevant from before the civil rights movement to our society today. White privilege is not necessarily a chosen advantage, but one that has been built into our society. The more white privilege is denied and ignored, the more disadvantages appear for other races. It has continued to go unnoticed because for it to change, people will need to be aware of its presence and make a conscious effort to change it. We have not been doing so, but a shift has begun and more representation is being presented to races other than white. ]]> 2018-12-11 16:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313492808 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313922439 This Ted Talk emphasizes the importance of not making assumptions before learning a whole story. Even today, with our wide range of access to media around the world, we are prone to believe the single story we read about, before learning the whole truth. This is what stereotypes are; the assumption that we know we know the whole truth before learning it. Most stereotypes have truth to them, but tell a single story out of many. We must be open and willing to learn both, or many sides to a story before believing we have experienced it all. If we want the ability to truly be able to say we know something, we must know all of it, not just one piece. ]]> 2018-12-12 16:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313922439 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313942440 This article opened my eyes to really what white privilege is and how unnoticed it goes. For white people (myself included) it is our norm. I know white privilege exists, but while reading this article, I found myself unaware that many of these situations were privileges not available to everyone who's race isn't white. This allowed to to see both sides of the story of oppression. If we're so used to having these advantages we don't even realize they exist, how can we fight to make them true for everyone?]]> 2018-12-12 17:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313942440 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313950846 In this poem, Sojourner Truth talks about the inequalities against women. She questions all the stereotypical ideas about what a women can and can't do. Women doing the things that men do doesn't make them any less women. This relates to Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God not being allowed to join in on conversations, learn to hunt, fish or play games until she got a husband who saw her as an equal and allowed her to. Women were seen as objects and believed to be unable to do things for themselves. This poem calls into question whether a women doing things she's not supposed to be doing makes her less women. ]]> 2018-12-12 17:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/313950846 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/314085606 I could feel the power and urgency behind the words Sha’Condria Sibley's share with the audience. She speaks from such a vulnerable place, you can't help but feel moved by her words. She is fed up by the fear and the pressures put on her by being a black women in society. She is tired of forcing herself to be quiet and restrained while things are happening to and around her that she wants to react to. In her poem, she exposes these things. She allows herself to feel and she doesn't make excuses for being a black women and having the right to feel and react since white people can do this without an explanation. ]]> 2018-12-12 23:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/314085606 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/314733261 This Ted Talk shares insight into how and why gender equality is good for everyone. The speaker is male, which works to his advantage he points out, due to societies presumptions on gender. He claims, if it was a women speaking, people would say "well of course you're saying this, you're a women." Him giving this lecture as a male, allows him the privilege of an un-biased argument against gender inequality. He talks about research done about when males take greater roles in the family and the house. When they do, their children perform better in school and have less mental health issues, their wives are happier and have less mental health issues and the males are happier and have less mental health issues. He goes on to say, there are advantages to gender equality for everyone. If only everyone knew how beneficial equal gender roles are, and how they could change the norms in our society today.]]> 2018-12-14 16:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/314733261 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315245414 This article speaks about when children's books use the words male, men, he and his generically for both genders, an image of a male appears in children's heads. By normalizing male as the default gender, it's putting false assumptions and values in children's heads that the male gender is superior. Parents, authors and our society need to change the norm that the gender of characters, animals and toys are automatically male. To be able to change our pattern on gender inequality, we need to focus on where it stems from; the things we're teaching and exposing children to. ]]> 2018-12-17 16:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315245414 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315256718 In this article, it talks about how many of the traits and roles we carry out are caused by societal expectations rather than the nature of our genders. This is interesting data that was obtained by talking to people and asking them where they believed their roles originated from. Most of them said their roles and attitudes originated from society. I think it is interesting that they know, the roles they conform to are from society and not from nature, yet still obtain those roles. If we are becoming aware that our roles are not necessarily given, but chosen, we can start to make a change in the roles of our genders. ]]> 2018-12-17 17:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315256718 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315653355 The Gender Inequality Index measures gender inequalities in countries around the world. It takes into account the most important aspects of human development; reproductive health, empowerment and economic status. This index is utterly important to show the gender gap between women and men in 160 different countries. Without this data, the gap in equality would go unnoticed and unchanged. It highlights areas around the world with huge gender inequalities that can use the exposure to be able to instate new policies and change to shrink the gap. ]]> 2018-12-18 18:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315653355 ellory_hoerth https://padlet.com/ellory_hoerth/2rrh3pvufddu/wish/315732986 There are many factors that lead to gender inequality. This article talks about a few of them and gives an explanation behind them. They are things such as; poor mentality, lower education level, traditions and cultures, religion and empowerment. All of these variables have reasons behind why they contribute to providing advantages to men and disadvantages to women. Many women feel they can't be successful because people have told them for years they can't. They may not be able to get an adequate education because their society doesn't feel it is necessary they get one. Regardless of all the set-backs that women around the world have to endure, they still have the ability to rise above gender restrictions and break through gender roles to take steps towards equality.

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