Monday, March 25, 2013

Organizations Fight for Women's Rights.



    
     During the time while  women discriminations has place to be many people and organizations have come to help women to fight with their rights. There is the most popular organizations that has been leading for women's rights.

     National Organization For Women (NOW). This organization the biggest feminist organization in the USA which include more than 500,000 members in 50 states. NOW was founded in 1966. Primary goal of this organization is to eliminate women discrimination in the work place, schools and all sectors of society. They are fight for stopping violence against women, lesbian rights etc. This organization has a lot of events which helps women to communicate with each other and share their problems.
     Global Fund For Women. This organization helps  small groups of Women by investing money in their changes. They based outside of the USA by providing grants  from $500 to $30,000 for operating and program expenses. This amount of money could help small groups of women to promote social rights for women. Also this organization fight for acces for education for women, health and sexual rights, civic and political participation and etc.

      It has been a tough fight through the many years in the fight for women's rights, but with help of organizations listed above women could feel themselves more secure than many years ago. This organizations help them to communicate with each other, to share their problems and they fight for their equal in society all together.
  
     
   
   

Monday, March 18, 2013

Discrimination Women On Workplace.


     

      For many of women discrimination on workplace still playing important role; it affect on wages that they are received, and on promotion that they get. Basically it depends on career you have choose and company that you work. If it is company where top managers only men- you have less percent to get higher promotion,because no one self-respecting man accept competition on one level with women. Most of men have a stereotype that women have no place in economy, politics,  and in workplace where used mental labor. They think that women should on work in educational system, PR, communicational activity and etc. As a result we rarely can see women who work on top position in government, economy.

      Honestly discrimination women on workplace in USA has more place to be than in my native country(Russia). I become to feel this difference when I first time tried to get job in the USA. I faced with severities to get administrative position, because every time requires says-"men position only". In my native country we have a lot of strong women in economy, government who have top management position and sometimes they show yourself more powerful than any men.

Despite the fact that we live in 21 century women still  discriminated  in many areas of activities. And women need to be more educated  to prove their competitiveness with men.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Women In Sport.

   When we are watching TV we can observe that women athletes are rare in our media environment. The question is Why?There are few points.
-We have stereotypes about females that they are object of sexual desire,they are caregiver and nurturer.
-If happened that it is a female athlete she must play tennis and nothing more.
-Popular female sports trend to show off the athletes body and to follow to cultural stereotypes about women.
-Also popular female sports do not permit contact; female sports typically do not direct women engaging in this activity.
-And popular female sports are subjective, not objective in their judging.

   One more interesting fact is that sports program are designed to exclude female audience. and again question is Why?
-Homogenity of audience. No point in gathering in audience of people who are not the target audience of your product. Wasted money,wasted efford.
  Other words, sports programming exists to attract a predominantly sexual male audience. As long as that is it's purpose,the representation of women in sports will remain the same.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Images Of Women In Cinema.

         
           The image of woman in cinema deeply interwined with general studies about film and women studies. Since the beggining of movie industry women actively participate in movies. During the period of 20s-40s of 19th century women were portrayed as capable of intelectual activities, but now it is all about women bodies. Nowadays we have a lot off different movies. But doesn't matter what kind of movie it will be, its almost impossible to see powerfull, beautifulland smart women without any deviation.
           As I said in my previous blog women always are sexual object for men. For example, we can go through typical screenplays in Hollywoood. In most cases the protagonist of the movie is a man, a superhero, who saves the world, but women usially play a passive role. For example, a blond cutie girlfriend of a hero who loves him very much and look forward to making a family with him. Typical character for most movies is a girl with a big breasts and beauty face who has low GPA and most of the time think about getting a boyfriend. But if there is a woman who is successfull, beautifull and smart she always has disadvantages: she has mental problems, not family oriented or just a bitch. As an exception we have few examples of movies where girls could be smart, strong, beautifull and without any deviations, but anyway the story is structured to show us this woman under the strong man who takes care of her, helps and guides her.
         
          The media of the days more focused on women's beauty. Nobody cares how smart she is, which carrer goals does she have; the most important thing is that she should look good. From early childhood media programms people that women are second sort of human being, the most valuable is a man. In most cases women is a sexual object till thirty-five, but after that age she portrayed as an old bitch. So, media don't value smart women as a powerfull and independent element of society. For media women is a sexual object who should be under a man or another case she will be indicated like an abnormal woman.