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Through a women and gender studies class, I've had this opportunity to create a blog formulated around feminism, women's rights, leadership in the movement, and discrimination in gender and race. This opportunity proved to be very rewarding as I believe it is very important to be informed of the history and current struggles faced by women today. Having this understanding allows people to have a greater appreciation for feminism, as well as know what it really stands for. Too many times have I heard people say that the women's movement is "dead" or an argument towards males, so being informed and equipped with the real truth is the only way to face these false statements and really have the opportunity to make change. I was inspired to choose a theme about the parallels in the past and present because of a newspaper I received one day. The head story read ,"Local Women Making 68 Cents Off Of Every Dollar Males Make." I was surprised because in my class, we had recently studied women's pay in the past and legislation that was supposed to guarantee equality. I was very curious to research the issues women still have today compared to the same in the past and feel that this blog adequately represents some of these parallels, as well as the historical background of the women's movement and leadership within.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Fourth Wave of Feminism Leadership: "Hollaback!"

      Online nonprofit organizations are relatively new ways of raising money, supporting a cause, and promoting activism. These organizations began to come about during the growing "fourth wave of feminism" as described in past posts. Although the fourth wave reaches across the world, inspires women to take action and stand up for themselves, and fits perfectly in our increasingly technological society, these organizations are struggling to establish themselves as strong foundations. (BCRW)
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     One of these online organizations is called "Hollaback!". Hollaback! is a nonprofit movement to end street harassment created to educate about street harassment, encourage public discussion, and to develop plans for equal access to public areas. They define street harassment as sexual harassment in public places to make victims feel scared and the harasser powerful. It can be sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, sizeist and/or classist. According to co-founder and executive director Emily May, "We’ve had to hustle really hard for every dollar, in part because most foundations just don’t have a portfolio that we can fit into," describing how their organization is not getting enough funding compared to non-online organizations (ihollaback.org). They only have enough funding to pay two full time individuals and 350 square feet of office. The organization is funded to be in one country, but supported by activists in 79 cities and 26 countries. Of the cities, the organization holds research in twenty of them. The activists have met with 250 policy makers to make change, and educated over 2,500 youth. (BCRW) 

 Sources: 
"About." Hollaback You Have the Power to End Street Harassment RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2014.

"Barnard Center for Research on Women." Barnard Center for Research on Women. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Nov. 2014.
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