Women of the Year 2009 Presented by She Takes on the World

Women of the Year 2009 Presented by She Takes on the World

women are indeed taking over the world... but sadly we are still underpaid.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15174489

kerry madness

Yet again the deep rooted sexist culture of Ireland raised its ugly head last week when 50 men including the parish priest filed up in Listowel Court Room to shake the hand of a man who was about to be sentenced for indecent assault. He was subsequently sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

What kind of society allows such vile mysogony? What kind of twisted mentality allows a man to clap another man on the back for raping a woman? Are the supporters of this convicted rapist married themselves? Are they fathers to young women? What must their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters think of their behaviour?

While I am proud to be Irish I am certainly not proud to be part of a nation that so openly encourages and sympathises with such behaviour. In Listowel last week, the victim became the victimised.

When will such open abuse of women and their rights be confronted in Ireland? With only 13% of us in positions of power I am pesimistic about such values being confronted and culled anytime soon. The only way to stamp out such deep rooted abuse is for women to actively collaborate, to stand up, to be counted, To say NO this wont do. It won't do at all. We need more women representing our rights within the corridors of power so that this kind of behaviour will become a thing of the past.

standby...

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Passion Killers

this article made me laugh out loud....probably because I can relate to it SO well. What is it about big comfy knickers that make you look great on the outside..... only to reveal the horror that lurks beneath when unleashed! It's a double whammy to the unsuspecting victim.
How can something so amazing, (you could go as far as to say a womans best friend) look so God dam awful? My challenge to whoever feels so inclined to rise to it is this....Can bullet proof functionality ever look sexy? The ultimate design challenge.
I think we should brief it out to an artist, a fashion designer and an engineer! what do you think?
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/10/13/spanx_makeout/index.html

A good idea for Always Ultra

I came across this campaign which highlights the totally unnecessary sacrafices that women in poorer countries of the world have to face each month. If brands like Proctor and Gamble were really in tune with their female market for their Always Ultra brand surely they would be actively taking ownership around a cause related program that is about providing sanitary pads to women in the third world or better still funding women to produce them themselves for their communities. But then again, the market planners for Always Ultra are probably men.......
check this really good cause ans spread the word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKmt7PwYPCY

So that it may never happen again.

"...This era must be revisited and the truth fully revealed for mature Irish women to reclaim their true sense of feminine passion and romance and younger women to see that the freedoms they enjoy had to be earned by courageous women, who set out to break the virgin/whore stranglehold of the Irish Catholic church over a women's sexuality and sensuality." — Jay Flavin

These are the words that will greet you when you visit the website Justice For The Magdalenes.

If you do one thing today, click on this website and reflect for a few minutes on the plight that these women endured and thank your lucky stars that you are a woman in 2009.

Then, then please think about WHAT YOU CAN DO to correct the wrongs
that they suffered.

http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/