Tag: gender
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Hooray for the Olympics
The first Summer Games of the Olympics in the modern era took place April 6-15, 1896 in Athens, Greece. Then May 20-October 28, 1900 the next Summer Games took place in Paris, France and were part of the World’s Fair. For the first time women were allowed to participate. There were 22 women who competed…
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I’m Looking for a Lot of Good Men
Many of my blogs are critical of men. However, it would be incorrect to assume that I am a misandrist, a hater of men. As the old saying goes, some of my best friends are men, and I have had the privilege to meet many admirable men during my lifetime. I want to talk about…
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Power to the People?
“In the history of human beings gender has proved to be the single most important factor in determining the fate of an individual. Gender is more important than ethnicity, skin color, religion, or economic status. Indeed, the influence of these secondary factors is merely magnified by the gender of an individual.” These are words I…
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War: A Lose-Lose for Women and Children
This week I watched the movie 20 Days in Mariupol written and directed by Mstyslav Chernov. He headed up a team of Associated Press journalists taking daily videos in Mariupol, Ukraine during the first twenty days of the Russian siege of that town as part of Putin’s goal to take back the nation of Ukraine.…
A Piece of a Woman's Mind 