Balance the world!

Activism is about balancing the world between those who have

power and those who don’t.

We are reaching a momentum.

Yet, the imbalance of power is still very present…

Toys still exaggerate gender division.

Toys exaggerate gender division.

Toys most associated with boys are related to fighting or aggression(wrestlers, soldiers, guns, etc.), and toys most associated withgirls are related to appearance (Barbie dolls and accessories,ballerina costumes, makeup, jewelry, etc.).

Toys for boys are more diverse than those for girls.

What about TOYs?

Boys' toys are more likely to be associated with the external world and can be manuallymanipulated. Girls’ toys are less diverse and mostly linked to domestic or “maternal” activities. Girls' toys (shops, kitchens, dolls) invite role playing and the development of verbalabilities. Boys' construction toys encourage manipulation and exploration to develop spatialand analytical skills.Interior vs exterior, danger vs security, competition vs cooperation.

How to tell if a toy is for boys or girls.

Do youoperate the toy

with yourgenitalia?

This toyis not forchildren.

It is foreither girlsor boys.

YES NO

Young children don't distinguish thegender of toys.

Boys aged 2-3 are as likely as girls to use dolls.Researcher Isabelle Cherney found that half ofboys aged 5-13 picked “girl” and “boy”toys equally... unless they were being watched. Boys were especially concerned about whattheir fathers would think of them if they sawthem.Over time, boys’ interests in toys and mediabecome more rigidly masculinized, whereasgirls’ interests stayed relatively open-endedand flexible.

Source: Rapport sur l'égalité entre les filles et les garçonsdans les modes d'accueil de la petite enfance

Private space is still mostly ruled by women.

• In France, women spend 1.5 hours more on household chores than men every day.

• In Australia, the average minutes per day of unpaid work are 311 for women and 172for men.

• 85% of working Indian women feel they have two jobs, one at work and another athome.

• This is called “the second shift,” which leads to severe burn-outs.

• Girls understand from a young age that the order and cleanliness of the house is their responsibility.

Emma calls it the mental load.

And public space is designed to answer men’s needs.

They found that 79% of women living in cities inIndia, 86% in Thailand, and 89% in Brazil havebeen subjected to harassment or violence in public, as had 75% of women in London, UK.

In France, 100% of women have experienced harassment in the transportation system. In Paris, 8 out of 10 women believe they would receive no help in a case of aggression in the metro.

In 2016, ActionAid conducted a survey aboutstreet harassment in a number of countries.

Every woman wants to feel safe while going to work, school, or running an errand.Sexual violence and harassment are another reason women and girls experience citiesdifferently than men.

A right to safety.

Femininity is valued by how little space women can occupy, while manhood requires spreading.

This space occupying strategy affects leisure space as well.

Young men get the power to make public space theirown and to model it according to their values.

The space issue: The individual with more power tends to occupy more space.

In a waiting room, men tend to occupy more space than women.On airplanes, men tend to occupy the armrests.Women tend to have smaller offices and smaller cars.Men tend to invade the personal space of women more than the other way around.Men tend to touch women more often than the other way around, establishing the domination relationship.When men feel their personal space is invaded, they react aggressively; womenwithdraw and flee.

Source: Joe Dator

• In France, 75% of the equipment in urban public recreational space is designed for boys.

• Only 2% of French streets are named after women, most of them being wives and daughters of famous men.

In our language, male is generic: mankind, manpower, man-made, etc. The masculine, by the presence of even one male, is the default.

"Every student in the classroom did his best on the exam." We even address groups of female friends with “You guys.”

And the parody Twitter account @manwhohasitall shows how ridiculous the opposite would be:

Masculine is universal.

In our gendered language, “Mr.” can refer to any man, whether he is single or married, but “Miss” and “Mrs.” define women by their marital status.Women are identified as appendages both of a man and of an institution: Corporate wives, Senate wives, faculty wives.Writers sometimes refer to women using only their first names in contexts where they would typically refer to men by their full names, last names, or titles. From air hostesses to firemen, it's time to drop gendered job titles.In many countries around the world, women adopt their husband's name when they get married, erasing their former identity.

Images: © The Man Who Has it All

HUMANITY IS MALE AND MAN DEFINES WOMAN NOT IN HIMSELF BUT AS RELATIVE TO HIM; SHE IS NOT REGARDED AS AN AUTONOMOUS HUMAN BEING.

— Judith Baxter

Our language is androcentric.

We live in an ocean of sexist messages.

Ads reinforce sexist stereotypes.

We grow up watching sexist movies.

Source: American Political Science Review

The larger the group, the more likely men are to speak.

Scholars at Brigham Young and Princeton Universities examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem.

In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their proportionalrepresentation – amounting to less than 75% of the time that men spoke.

Male students tend to be more talkative than female students, which affects their visibility, their grades, and their future professional opportunities.

STUDIES SHOW:MEN DOMINATE

75% OFCONVERSATIONS

IN DECISIONMAKING GROUPS.

Having a seat at the table is not the same as having a voice. The website arementalkingtoomuch.com offers ways to check who is dominating the conversation.

WHY?Three explanations have been popular since the 1970s, according to Debbie Cameron.

“First, women are socialized to be unassertive: they’re reluctant to speak in public, and when they do enter public forums they don’t have the confidence to compete with men.

Second, women aren’t interested in competing with men: they prefer a co-operative and supportive style of discourse to the adversarial mode that’s typical of male-dominated public forums.

How to bro-propriate?

You probably have come across the cartoon saying: “That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Riggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.”

Many women are also familiar with experiences of "mansplaining." Mansplaining is when a man explains something to a woman in a patronizing way, especially something that he actually knows less about than she does. This expression comes from the essay by Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me.

Women often feel voluntarily or involuntarily silenced and invaded by men’soccupation of the vocal space.

Image: Kaye Blagvad

Silencing women’s voices takes many shapes:

shushing young girlsgrabbing the micspeaking louderyelling at womenbelittling or patronizing the women who speaklaughing at women's commentsinterruptinglabeling more vocal women as aggressive or bossynot believing women when they speak outdenying the reality of women's testimonials or experiencesinsulting women or threatening them on social media.

Far too many conferences feature talks exclusively hosted by men.

At the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, only 20% of the participants were women.

And the Brookings Institution noted that women were entirely absent from the 2017 UScongressional US-Iran deal hearings, even though women were key players in structuring the deal.

Image: Kathleen Edison

Public speaking is male dominated.

So we end up with all-male panels…

Image: All-male panel Tumblr

Event organizers negotiate more harshly with female speakers, asking them to lower their fees or even to speak for free. Since women speak at fewer events, female speakers have less visibility and attract smaller audiences, which justifies lower speaker's fees from event organizers. It's a negative feedback loop.

Women speakers still earn less than male speakers.

Where are the women?

Many high-profile conferences, events, and taskforces lack gender balance, despite there being no shortage of qualified women.

Source: The Panel Pledge

15% OF THEPANELISTS IN

AUSTRALIA AREWOMEN

Our conferences mostly present male experts.

The future is in code and women are not writing it.

Source: The Guardian

Worldwide, women are a minority within tech leadership

18%in North America

13%in South America

11%in Asia

The tech industry has a reputation for being a boys’ club, and recent diversity reports from several companies illustrate how men dominate their global workforces.

In Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Yahoo, male employees represent 70% of the workforce.

Just have a look at the line at the male restrooms (for once) at developers’ conferences!

55%of Twitter and Facebook usersin the US are women but only

5%of US tech startups are

owned by women.

Less than

7%of tech positions

in Europe arefilled by women.

Women comprise half the workforce but less than 25% of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) jobs.

Silicon Valley is still a man’s world.

Even the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 825 men and 49 women so far.

Fewer than 5% of global companies have a female CEO.

Even though women earn more degrees than men, they are still underrepresented in leadership roles.

Women are still underrepresented at the top of corporations globally.

And at the end of the day…

1 in 4 Americans think it is more likely that humans will colonize Mars than women will comprise half of Fortune 500 CEOs!

...more men named John run large US companies than all women!

John JamesRobertAll WomenDavid

Average percentage of women in executive team:

Fewer than 5% of global companies have a female CEO.WORLD

Women represent only 5% of Fortune 500 companies.US

16%US

12%UK

6%BRAZIL

On average, women represent only 19% of board companies in the European Union (EU) even if it has progressed in the last years.

#MoreWomen

Women are poorer.

Female entrepreneurs struggle to get funded.

Nature wants all of us enrolled in reproducing the species.

Women can become disinterested in sex as a result of childhood abuse, rape, social conditioning, unaddressed relationship issues, unskilled lovemaking or demands of juggling children and work, but these all represent deviations from her inherent nature.Women are socialized to channel their erotic yearnings into romantic fantasy rather than genital imagery, but when freed of sex-negative conditioning and social judgments, women desire erotic connection.When women are initiated into the pleasures of sex with a lover who is sensitive, considerate, skilled, and receptive to guidance, their sexual potential is awakened, and their interest in sex equals or exceeds the interest of most men.

BUT THESE MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES STILL CONDITION OUR SEXUAL LIVES

This belief in irrepressible male desire has dramatic consequences on the lives of millions of young boys and girls.

It legitimizes unfaithfulness, prostitution, porn, and even assault as a lesser evil.

Illegal Arms Trade$10 Billion

Cocaine$70 Billion

Sex Trafficking$58 Billion

This demand spursthe $58 billion sex trafficking

industry.

Sex trafficking is the fastestgrowing criminal industry in the

world.

Female Prostitutes Male80%

Source: findingjustice.org/prostitution-statistics

Studies reveal 1 in 10 men in the world have purchased a prostitute.

At this moment, there are 40 million prostitutes at work.

Three quarters of them are between the ages of 13 and 25 and 80% of them are female.

Some feminist movements are openly anti-porn and consider it cultural violence more than sexual fantasy.

In her essay, Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornographic Feminism, Julia Long explains how anti-porn feminism is back.

Proving that porn desensitizes and actually limits our sexual freedom, Dines argues itsomnipresence is a public health concern we can no longer ignore in PornLand: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.

Especially since most porn only portrays sex and pleasurethrough the male gaze.

The main goal of porn is to feature a male’s ejaculation, their partners pleasure is secondary.This leads to less satisfactory sexual experiences for women.Source: Telegraph

TALKING ABOUT THE ORGASM GAP

90%of men achieve orgasms

during sex, while only65%

of women do.

The gap between men’s and women’s frequency of orgasm is impacted by social forces that privilege male pleasure.

Paula England, a sociology professor at Stanford University said, “The orgasm gap is an inequity that’s as serious as the pay gap, and it’s producing a rampant culture of sexual asymmetry.”

In same-sex encounters, the orgasm gap disappears!

And we’re not even equal in bed!

Global gender gap will take 100 years to close, says 2017 edition of Global Gender Gap report by WEF.

And the most alarming is that disparities between men and women have widened for the first time in more than a decade!

So we still have work to do to balance the world!

This book is about solutions.

Today, more than ever, we need everyone to be a “balancemaker.”

We identified 15 key topics. For each topic, we state the problem, share existing solutions, and propose some concrete actions you can take.

01 — Education02 — Media and art03 — Advertising04 — Language05 — Public speaking06 — Cities07 — Sports08 — Politics09 — Leadership10 — Investors11 — Pay gap12 — Science and technology13 — Sex14 — Violence15 — Manhood

Tactics for a revolution.

Imagine you live in a world where most of the resources, power, media, and myths are owned by one part of the population.

And you’re not a part of it. What would you do?

Which tactic would you use to shift the power balance?

Here are some tactics that we will illustrate in this book.

Visualize

We say an image is worth a thousand words. Visualizing data or a shocking statistic in an infographic can be extremely powerful. You can also portray what the world would be like, the utopia you aspire to, as with the prophetic front page of a newspaper. Show, don’t tell.

We identified 15 key topics.

Each chapter is divided in 3 parts.

THE PROBLEM:

THE MADMEN WORLD

Image: Moderna de pueblo

THE PROBLEM:

THE MADMEN WORLD

Image: Moderna de pueblo

SOMESOLUTIONS

SOMESOLUTIONS

WHAT CANYOU DO?

WHAT CANYOU DO?

Power is never given. It is taken.

198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION

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The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and PersuasionFormal Statements

1. Public speeches2. Letters of opposition or support3. Declarations by organizations and institutions4. Signed public statements5. Declarations of indictment and intention6. Group or mass petitions

Communications with a Wider Audience7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications9. Leafl ets, pamphlets, and books10. Newspapers and journals11. Records, radio, and television12. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations13. Deputations14. Mock awards15. Group lobbying16. Picketing17. Mock elections

Symbolic Public Acts18. Displays of fl ags and symbolic colors19. Wearing of symbols20. Prayer and worship21. Delivering symbolic objects22. Protest disrobings23. Destruction of own property24. Symbolic lights25. Displays of portraits26. Paint as protest27. New signs and names28. Symbolic sounds29. Symbolic reclamations30. Rude gestures

Pressures on Individuals31. “Haunting” offi cials32. Taunting offi cials33. Fraternization34. Vigils

Drama and Music35. Humorous skits and pranks36. Performances of plays and music37. Singing

Processions38. Marches39. Parades40. Religious processions41. Pilgrimages42. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead43. Political mourning44. Mock funerals45. Demonstrative funerals46. Homage at burial places

Public Assemblies47. Assemblies of protest or support48. Protest meetings49. Camoufl aged meetings of protest50. Teach-ins

Withdrawal and Renunciation51. Walk-outs52. Silence53. Renouncing honors54. Turning one’s back

The Methods of Social NoncooperationOstracism of Persons

55. Social boycott56. Selective social boycott57. Lysistratic nonaction58. Excommunication59. Interdict

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions

60. Suspension of social and sports activities61. Boycott of social aff airs62. Student strike63. Social disobedience64. Withdrawal from social institutions

Withdrawal from the Social System65. Stay-at-home66. Total personal noncooperation67. “Flight” of workers68. Sanctuary69. Collective disappearance70. Protest emigration (hijrat)

The Methods of Economic Noncooperation: Economic BoycottsActions by Consumers

71. Consumers’ boycott72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods73. Policy of austerity74. Rent withholding75. Refusal to rent76. National consumers’ boycott77. International consumers’ boycott

Action by Workers and Producers78. Workmen’s boycott79. Producers’ boycott

Action by Middlemen80. Suppliers’ and handlers’ boycott

Action by Owners and Management81. Traders’ boycott82. Refusal to let or sell property83. Lockout84. Refusal of industrial assistance85. Merchants’ “general strike”

Action by Holders of Financial Resources86. Withdrawal of bank deposits87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments88. Refusal to pay debts or interest89. Severance of funds and credit90. Revenue refusal91. Refusal of a government’s money

Action by Governments92. Domestic embargo93. Blacklisting of traders94. International sellers’ embargo95. International buyers’ embargo96. International trade embargo

The Methods of Economic Noncooperation: The StrikeSymbolic Strikes

97. Protest strike98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

Agricultural Strikes99. Peasant strike100. Farm Workers’ strike

Strikes by Special Groups101. Refusal of impressed labor102. Prisoners’ strike103. Craft strike104. Professional strike

Ordinary Industrial Strikes105. Establishment strike106. Industry strike107. Sympathetic strike

Restricted Strikes108. Detailed Strike109. Bumper strike110. Slowdown strike111. Working-to-rule strike112. Reporting “sick” (sick-in)113. Strike by resignation114. Limited strike115. Selective strike

Multi-Industry Strikes116. Generalized strike117. General strike

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures118. Hartal119. Economic shutdown

The Methods of Political NoncooperationRejection of Authority

120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance121. Refusal of public support122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens’ Noncooperation with Government123. Boycott of legislative bodies124. Boycott of elections125. Boycott of government employment and positions126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions128. Boycott of government-supported organizations129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents130. Removal of own signs and placemarks131. Refusal to accept appointed offi cials132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens’ Alternatives to Obedience133. Reluctant and slow compliance134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision135. Popular nonobedience136. Disguised disobedience137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse138. Sit-down139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation140. Hiding, escape, and false identities141. Civil disobedience of “illegitimate” laws

Action by Government Personnel142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides143. Blocking of lines of command and information144. Stalling and obstruction145. General administrative noncooperation146. Judicial noncooperation147. Deliberate ineffi ciency and selective noncooperation byenforcement agents148. Mutiny

Domestic Governmental Action149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

International Governmental Action151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition154. Severance of diplomatic relations155. Withdrawal from international organizations156. Refusal of membership in international bodies157. Expulsion from international organizations

Far too often people struggling for democratic rights and justice are not aware of the full range of methods of nonviolent action. Wise strategy, attention to the dynamics of nonviolent struggle, and careful selection of methods can increase a group’s chances of success.

Gene Sharp’s researched and catalogued these 198 methods and provided a rich selection of historical examples in his seminal work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 Vols.) Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973.

The Methods of Nonviolent InterventionPsychological Intervention

158. Self-exposure to the elements159. The fast

a. Fast of moral pressureb. Hunger strikec. Satyagrahic fast

160. Reverse trial161. Nonviolent harassment

Physical Intervention162. Sit-in163. Stand-in164. Ride-in165. Wade-in166. Mill-in167. Pray-in168. Nonviolent raids169. Nonviolent air raids170. Nonviolent invasion171. Nonviolent interjection172. Nonviolent obstruction173. Nonviolent occupation

Social Intervention174. Establishing new social patterns175. Overloading of facilities176. Stall-in177. Speak-in178. Guerrilla theater179. Alternative social institutions180. Alternative communication system

Economic Intervention181. Reverse Strike182. Stay-in Strike183. Nonviolent land seizure184. Defi ance of Blockades185. Politically Motivated Counterfeiting186. Preclusive Purchasing187. Seizure of assets188. Dumping189. Selective patronage190. Alternative markets191. Alternative transportation systems192. Alternative economic institutions

Political Intervention193. Overloading of administrative systems194. Disclosing identities of secret agents195. Seeking imprisonment196. Civil disobedience of “neutral” laws197. Work-on without collaboration198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government

This book is about solutions.

Today, more than ever, we need everyone to be a “balancemaker.”

We identified 15 key topics. For each topic, we state the problem, share existing solutions, and propose some concrete actions you can take.

01 — Education02 — Media and art03 — Advertising04 — Language05 — Public speaking06 — Cities07 — Sports08 — Politics09 — Leadership10 — Investors11 — Pay gap12 — Science and technology13 — Sex14 — Violence15 — Manhood

Tactics for a revolution.

Imagine you live in a world where most of the resources, power, media, and myths are owned by one part of the population.

And you’re not a part of it. What would you do?

Which tactic would you use to shift the power balance?

Here are some tactics that we will illustrate in this book.

Visualize

We say an image is worth a thousand words. Visualizing data or a shocking statistic in an infographic can be extremely powerful. You can also portray what the world would be like, the utopia you aspire to, as with the prophetic front page of a newspaper. Show, don’t tell.

Gather relevant data so that no one can deny the reality of the problem.

Data Mining

Leverage technology to crowdsource information in real time, geolocalize data, or createuseful wearables.

Tech 4 Good

Campaigning platforms like Change.org and social media like Twitter and Facebook allow anycitizen to make noise and unite people around a cause. What was once an isolated individualcomplaint online can now rally thousands.

The Power of the Crowd

Humor can defuse the situation, making dry topics accessible to connect with people. Humoropens hearts and minds.

Humor

Leverage the power of play to raise awareness on complex issues.

Gaming

A simple yet powerful tactic is to give a name to a previously unnoticed phenomenon.(Mansplaining, Manspreading, Manterrupting, etc.)

Naming

Choose a new angle to portray a problem, provide a female gaze to a traditional story,show what a different world would be like. New media channels allow each of us tobecome a storyteller.

Counter-storytelling

Train women in a new skill in order to infiltrate male-dominated sectors.

New Skill

Portray new role models and new stories of women and men striving for peace and balance.

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In a forum theater, actors perform a scene with a negative outcome. Audience membersbecome "spectActors" in order to solve the situation. This tactic was developed by the Theatreof the Oppressed in Latin America in the 1970s.

Stage

Mainstream icons, famous actors and actresses, and heads of state openly supporting genderequity is a strong method to invite these topics into mainstream media and to leverage theirvisibility for a social impact.

Speak Up

Disseminating case studies, toolkits, and manuals with concrete tips and advice is a great wayto guide people.

Toolkit

Progressively infiltrate the power structures in order to switch the power balance from within.This requires stamina and resilience.

Infiltrate

Affirmative action measures that impose a target for representation within the organization canaccelerate the diversity of leadership circles and help shatter the "glass ceiling," but they alsocreate tensions and frustrations within the organization.

Quotas

Attribute a mark or a rank to an organization according to its compliance with diversityobjectives.

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Refrain from buying products or using services from companies who do not respect yourvalues.

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Create thematic groups to grow confidence and strength before reclaiming the world nextdoor.

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Ban certain practices from an organization, city, or country.

Outlaw

Guerrilla activism costs little, but, if well publicized, these actions create a viral effect.

Street Action

It is good to be an ally but sometimes you have to be a rebel. If you believe some rules arenot fair, why follow them?

Disobey the Rules

Revolution represents a fundamental change in political power in a short period of time.Revolution is a fast-paced tactic that creates massive wounds and extremely uncertainoutcomes.

Revolution

When women unite, they prove that they are powerful. Remember, women paralyzed Icelandin 1975, and Lysistrata's sex strike stopped the Peloponnesian Wars.

Unite

Focus your protest or campaign on a small but very symbolic illustration of the powersystem.

Symbolic Claim

Occupy a public and symbolic place to raise awareness of an issue, for example OccupyWall Street, the Indignados in Madrid, or Nuit Debout in Paris.

Occupy

Focus on growth. Learn. Question. Speak. Act.

Awareness

Gender imbalance can be perceived as a market opportunity to create products addressingan unsatisfied need.

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IMany changemakers use peaceful walks, civil resistance, and disobedience tactics to provetheir point and challenge the existing power structures.

Nonviolence

Invite others to put themselves in your shoes to be more aware of your reality.

Empathy

A true systemic change will only arise from a combination of these tactics triggered by a symbolic event. It will require planning, strategy, and cooperation. If you are passionate about changing the system, read Gene Sharp's groundbreaking work, From Dictatorship to Democracy, or consult the Albert Einstein Institution, which lists 198 methods of nonviolent action!

Reverse the roles to shed light on the incongruity of cultural rules.

Reverse

Instead of fighting the existing structure, create alternative models that become sonumerous that they dilute the old system in a sea of new ones.

Dilute

Now it's your turn!

Pick the topic you are most passionate about, choose one of the tactics you feel morecomfortable with, and imagine what you could start!

The world is full of opportunities!

Learn about them in the coming pages!

NON-VIOLENCE IS A POWERFUL ANDJUST WEAPON. INDEED, IT IS A WEAPON UNIQUE WHICH CUTS WITHOUT WOUNDING AND ENNOBLES THE MAN WHO WIELDS IT.

— Martin Luther King Jr


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Image: Mattel

Famous brands are starting to adapt their products or communication.

This Audi Spain ad for Christmas challengesstereotypes with the hashtag #cambiemoseljuego(Let’s change the game).

Lego introduced female scientists and stay-at-home dads.

Even Mattel recently launched a Game DeveloperBarbie and paired up with the organization She Should Run to create a president doll.

Mattel has seen a 23% rise in sales after the company changed Barbie from an exclusivelyblond bombshell-style doll to one that representsa variety of races and body types.

Parents are setting up new clothing brands.

Brands are starting to proposegender-neutral toys.

Goldie Blox wants to inspire young girls to become engineers.

In France, the Maydee application allows individuals to track the time spent onhousehold chores and share it equally.

A new illustrated children’s book from iconic City LightsPublishers, Rad American Women A-Z, offers kids thechance to educate themselves on women’s history andthe alphabet at the same time.

Written by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam KleinStahl, the book was inspired by Schatz’s two-year-olddaughter.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, which tells stories oficonic women all around the world, has become the mostcrowdfunded book on Kickstarter ever.

On A Mighty Girl's website, you can findthe world's largest collection of books,toys, and movies for smart, confident,and courageous girls.

And female superheroes are starting to become mainstream.

Source: Cynthia Sousa (aka Themat)

New children's literature is emerging.

Wonder Woman became the 11th superhero movie in history to pass $800 million at the global box office.

This success is important because superheroes promote the idea that anyone can do good deeds, that hidden talents lie in us all, and that one person can make a difference. And they validate our sense of justice.

So new superheroes emerge, like Burka Avenger in Pakistan, fighting for the

right of girls to go to school.

Or Qahera in Egypt, who is raisingawareness of street harassment.

New Heroes

New media has been a game-changer for feminism.

Les Internettes is a collective of women producing videos.The Washington Post launched The Lily, a new publication for millennial women with a mission to inform, empower and expose diverse voices and perspectives. Vice and Unilever teamed up to launch Broadly, a female-focused channel. BitchMedia's mission is to provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to media and popular culture. We are the XX is a media collective featuring women’s stories.Many feminist podcasts are rocking the scene, like Sex Nerd Sandra, Women of the Hour with Lena Dunham, the Guilty Feminist, Black Girls Talking or, in France, La Poudre.

DON'T HATETHE MEDIA,BECOMETHE MEDIA.

– Jello Biafra

And we need more female storytellers!

We need to show the world through a woman’s lens.

Global Girl Media teaches young girls to be citizen journalists.

We need to celebrate the women who have made it and learn about their work.

And we need to create specific communities.

The collective Women who draw is showcasing women illustrators.

Rawiya is a photography cooperative made up of six female photographers from across the Middle East who have pooled their resources, contacts, and talents to strengthen their work and to expand their reach.

Tanya Habjouqa, part of Rawiya, wants her photographs to say:“Put aside your pre-conceived notions, come and take a closer look at our region.”

New Skill New Heroes

Lensational uses recycled and donated cameras to organize photography workshops for underserved women, allowing them to capture their world and tell their own stories.

Women whose voices are rarely heard, from domestic helpers in Hong Kong to childrenof sex workers in Pakistan, are taking photos thanks to Lensational’s photography training.

Filmmakers and activists are also raising awareness on this issue.

Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the 2011 award-winning documentary Miss Representation exposes howmainstream media and culture is selling young people the idea that girls’ and women’s value lies in their youth, beauty, and sexuality rather than their capacity as leaders.

Following the documentary, The Representation Project launched different social media campaigns.

And they even released the Notbuying it app where users can upload sexist or inspiring media they see, scroll through images posted by others, andimmediately let brands on Twitter know how they feel!

You can also use your purchasing power topressure brands.

Purse Power has released a list of companies to help you make purchasing decisions.

BoycottThe Power of the Crowd

The impact of the campaign was massive.

When we suppose that women are in constant competition.

When two men or groups of men are vocally disagreeing, we call it debating, or discussion. If they yell, we call it robust or heated. Or Parliament.

When two groups of women are debating, let’s call it debating, too.#Malegaze

When we “tone police” women.

When we provide unsolicited instructions for how others should look, think, and act.

And dismissing it all as if it did not matter.

“I would listen to you if you were not so aggressive / angry / hysterical …”

“I will talk to you when you have calmed down.”

Image: © The Man Who Has it All


THIS WAS LOCKERROOM TALK.

— Donald Trump

And it happens at all levels.

In French as well.

FEMINAZI: BECAUSE EXPECTING GENDER EQUALITY IS JUST LIKE

COMMITTING GENOCIDE

SUCH A NASTYWOMAN.

— Donald Trump


Avoir des couilles. Etre hystérique.Elle a ses règles?Bon père de famille.Le sexe faible.Il faut souffrir pour être belle.Mal baisée.Elle a dû coucher pour réussir.Nique ta mère.Garçon manqué.Fais pas ta pute.Femme au volant, mort au tournant.Tu ne vas pas te laisser battre par une fille.

La ménagère de moins de 50 ans.Derrière chaque grand homme, se cache une grande femme.Fais pas la gonzesse.Fée du logis.Ecole maternelle.

Humour is powerful.

When leadership skill is seen as aturn-off.

When we unconsciously shame women for their behavior.

WORDS MATTER. WHEN A LITTLE GIRL IS CALLEDBOSSY WHEN SHE LEADS, IT’S TELLING HER TO BE QUIET. I DON’T WANT GIRLS TO BE QUIET.I WANT THEM TO ROAR!

— Jennifer Garner

When being strong is a burden. When we associate strength and courage with masculinity.

Visualize

As is speaking up and visualizing.

New speakers’ bureaux are exclusively dedicated to find more diverse speakers.

Bulbula is a free online directory ofbrilliant female commentators andspeakers from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Bulbula brings these diverse voices to a wider audience,connecting them with journalists,producers, and bookers in a dynamic meeting of cultures.

Data Mining Infiltrate

A song satirizing Saudi Arabia’s driving ban on womenhas been seen by 15 million people on YouTube.

Hisham Fageeh, the 26-year-old comedian behind the hit, has adapted Bob Marley’s famous reggae hit, “No Woman, No Cry,” with his friends Fahad Albutairi and Alaa Wardi.

In response to the Cannes Film Festival reportedly barring women from attending film screenings if they were not wearing high heels, Emma Thompson decidedto take off her Louboutin heels at the Golden Globes.

I’VE TAKEN MYHEELSOFF AS A FEMINISTSTATEMENT REALLY,BECAUSE WHY DOWE WEAR THEM?THEY’RE SOPAINFUL. ANDPOINTLESS, REALLY.BUT TO PLEASINGMEN.

—Emma Thompson

Each year, an ever-increasing number of men,women, and their families are joining theaward-winning Walk a Mile in Her Shoes: TheInternational Men's March to Stop Rape, SexualAssault & Gender Violence.

Saudi activist Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so and filming herself for YouTube.

Different cities implement campaigns against manspreading.

Manspreading, or man-sitting, is the practice of men sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat.

New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority and Seattle's Sound Transit instituted poster campaignsencouraging respectful posture on crowded buses and trains to increase seating availability. New York

Speak upHumor Reverse Naming

In Paris, a feminist group decided to rename 60 streets in honor of women. The idea was to raise awareness and to show the world as it should be.

Now led by a female mayor, Paris is trying toassign female names to its new streets.

Some artists also redesigned Paris and New York subway maps exclusively withfemale station names.

“It’s a map that reflects the remarkable history of charismatic women who have shaped New York City from the beginning,” wrote author Rebecca Solnit In her new book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas.

Image: Silvia RadelliImage: Molly Roy

THIS IS A MAN'S WORLD BUT IT WOULD BE NOTHING, WITHOUT A WOMAN OR A GIRL.

— James Brown

Visualize Street Action

...in France... ...or Tunisia.

Take Back the Metro invites transport system users to inform fellow passengers about sexist violence (and not only about pickpockets or minding the gap).

In Cairo, Harassmap helps to geolocalize street harassment inreal time to identify the most dangerous streets and to work in collaboration with shopkeepers and residents.

Harassmap recently trained male Uber drivers about recognizing, preventing, and taking positive action against sexual harassment.

Street Action Tech 4 Good

In the US, Hollaback app allows users to share stories of street harassment.

How to build fairer cities?

The project Womenability has been searching the world for solutions to urban challenges.

Like exploratory walks allowing citizens to explore a neighborhood and assess its needs.

Exploratory walks were created at the beginning of the 1990s in Montreal by METRAC2 to help prevent violence targeted at women and children. Since then the approach has been broadened into a general tool enabling decision makers to gain “users knowledge” on the city, and residents to transmit their experience directly to decision makers. It is a situational and participative approach that is particularly useful to analyse safety and security issuesat stake in some neighborhoods.

Cyvette Gibson, Paynesville, Liberia’s first female mayor says: “I always say women builddifferently than men. Men build for today but women build for tomorrow because we’reinterested in making sure we have some form of security for our children.That’s why we elected a woman as president in Liberia – we knew we needed a woman torebuild our nation.”

We also need more female mayors around the world.

Today, 9 female mayors out of 57 high-profile cities provides some hope for change.

Women build cities with the future in mind.

And women offer a different perspective.

Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender at Bristol University explains: "While not every woman mayor is a feminist with the goal of improving the lives of women in her city, women bring with them experiences that differ in important ways from those of their male peers."

“If you’ve never tried to put a buggy on a bus, you don’t really understand what manywomen’s experience of public transport is,” Childs says, adding that there’s a burgeoning argument for infrastructure to include childcare, not just roads and rail.

Street Action Disobey the Rules

In India, the Why Loiter initiative is re-occupying public space.

Being in a public space without any apparent reason is not appropriate for females.

So women gather in cafes, public benches, or beaches and post photos of themselves on social media.

And they do the same in Pakistan…

When society wants to keep a woman safe, it never chooses to make public spaces safe for her.It instead tries to limit her right to this space.It highlights the way in which the media, as well as general discourse, tends to focus on the dangers that face women who “dare to cross prescribed lines.”

In China, some women occupy the men’s toilets to raise awareness of the issue.

As Rosa Parks once defied city law by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, why not use men’s bathrooms if the line for women’s bathrooms is too long?

Some activists advocate for gender-neutral bathrooms.

Some athletes are becoming vocal about the biases and discrimination they face.

I AM NOT THE NEXT USAIN BOLT OR MICHAEL PHELPS. I’M THE FIRST SIMONE BILES.

— Simone Biles, American artistic gymnast and gold medalist.

IT’S SCARY TO STEP UP TO YOUR EMPLOYERBUT AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TOPUT YOUR FOOT DOWN.

— Hope Solo, American soccer goalkeeper, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and World Cup champion.

This Girl Can is a UK national campaign.

It’s a celebration of active women up and down the country who are doing their thing no matter how well they do it, how they look, or even how red their face gets.

Counter StorytellingSpeak up

Women Win is the global leader in girls’ empowerment through sports. They leverage the power of play to help girls build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights.

Boxgirls develops programs to support women and girls in developing life skills, learning self-defense and de-escalation strategies, and becoming leaders in their schools and communities.

SheFighter is the first self-defense studio for women in Jordan and the Middle East, designed to empower women both physically and physiologically through self-defense training. SheFighter’s self-defense techniques give women the opportunity to learn to defend themselves in difficult situations as well as build up their self-esteem.

Skateistan is a global community of supporters, staff, students, and skaters who share the dream of empowering youth through skateboarding and education.

New Skill

Women Win is the global leader in girls’ empowerment through sports. They leverage the power of play to help girls build leadership skills and become better equipped to exercise their rights.

Boxgirls develops programs to support women and girls in developing life skills, learning self-defense and de-escalation strategies, and becoming leaders in their schools and communities.

SheFighter is the first self-defense studio for women in Jordan and the Middle East, designed to empower women both physically and physiologically through self-defense training. SheFighter’s self-defense techniques give women the opportunity to learn to defend themselves in difficult situations as well as build up their self-esteem.

Skateistan is a global community of supporters, staff, students, and skaters who share the dream of empowering youth through skateboarding and education.

New Skill

CANADA NEEDS MOREWOMEN FROM DIVERSEBACKGROUNDS MAKING

— SUCCEED.

DECISION IN OTTAWABECAUSE WHEN WOMENSUCCEED, WE ALL

— Justin Trudeau

In the US, the collective Leadarise teaches girls how to be a future leader.

In the UK, The Parliament Project runs workshops to encourage women to get into politics.

In Lebanon, Women in Front is also encouraging Lebanese women to take part and become catalysts of change in Lebanese politics.

In Tunisia, Aswat Nisaa is training young women to speak in public and take apolitical lead. It also helps political parties to take greater account of women’s rights in their programs.

She Should Run provides a network for women leaders considering a future run for office.

She Should Run encourages American citizens to nominate women they know to run for office.

Specific Communities New Skill

CANADA NEEDS MOREWOMEN FROM DIVERSEBACKGROUNDS MAKING

— SUCCEED.

DECISION IN OTTAWABECAUSE WHEN WOMENSUCCEED, WE ALL

— Justin Trudeau

In the US, the collective Leadarise teaches girls how to be a future leader.

In the UK, The Parliament Project runs workshops to encourage women to get into politics.

In Lebanon, Women in Front is also encouraging Lebanese women to take part and become catalysts of change in Lebanese politics.

In Tunisia, Aswat Nisaa is training young women to speak in public and take apolitical lead. It also helps political parties to take greater account of women’s rights in their programs.

She Should Run provides a network for women leaders considering a future run for office.

She Should Run encourages American citizens to nominate women they know to run for office.


Like the first all-female crew flying Ethiopian airlines.

Or the Brunei crew landing acommercial flight in Saudi Arabia, where women were not allowed to drive.

MAKERS' podcast showcases a collection of inspiring women's stories.

New Heroes

Frequent, high-quality interactions with successful female role models have been shown to improve college women’s perception of their leadership abilities and career ambitions (Asgari et al., 2012). Exposure to counter-stereotypical role models can actually reduce the effects ofstereotypical thinking in completely different settings (Leicht et al., 2014). Women’s advancement is strongly linked to board-level gender diversity (Skaggs et al., 2012). When women are in top leadership positions, women are more likely to be promoted to leadership.

#JamaisSansElles is a French movement promoted by leaders from media, education, politics, and business who refuse to be part of debates if women are not included.

In France, the feminist collective La Barbe (The Beard) wants to make male domination in the fields of leadership more visible. Their members, wearing a fake beard, invade all-male board meetings or panels and stand behind them to mock the situation.

The Coaching Fellowship provides pro bono executive coaching for extraordinary young women leaders globally.

Wedu’s mission is to unlock the leadership potential of women in Asia by providing them with lifelong mentorship and innovative financing options to complete higher education and become change-makers in their communities.

The Cherie Blair Foundation For Women matches women in developing and emerging countries with male and female mentors around the world.

Female Future Force Academy is offering 52 weeks of digital coaching for women.

The Nawaya Network is a Lebanese nonprofit organization that empowers youth from marginalized backgrounds through training, innovation, and talent development.

Empow’her supports women's empowerment through entrepreneurship. They provide training, support, and network access to help women create and develop sustainable businesses.

Specific CommunitiesNew Skill

The Coaching Fellowship provides pro bono executive coaching for extraordinary young women leaders globally.

Wedu’s mission is to unlock the leadership potential of women in Asia by providing them with lifelong mentorship and innovative financing options to complete higher education and become change-makers in their communities.

The Cherie Blair Foundation For Women matches women in developing and emerging countries with male and female mentors around the world.

Female Future Force Academy is offering 52 weeks of digital coaching for women.

The Nawaya Network is a Lebanese nonprofit organization that empowers youth from marginalized backgrounds through training, innovation, and talent development.

Empow’her supports women's empowerment through entrepreneurship. They provide training, support, and network access to help women create and develop sustainable businesses.

Specific CommunitiesNew Skill

The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

Teach a Girl to Lead provides the tools and resources to help young people rethink leadership and refocus the picture. If a girl can’t imagine a woman leader, how can she become one? And if a boy sees only men in leadership roles, what will convince him to support aspiring women leaders?

Landit is the personalized playbook for women seeking to move their career forward.

Glowork is the first website and movement dedicated to female recruitment in the Gulf States and the most innovative enabler when it comes to creating equal opportunities for women.

Apres facilitates the reintegration of women into the workforce.

Katharine Zaleski and Milena Berry founded Power to Fly to help connect women around the world to tech jobs they could do remotely.

In Saudi Arabia, women represent only 15% of the workforce even though 60% of women have PhD degrees (Source: Booz & Co, study conducted in 2008).

Some apps offer career advice.

Tech 4 Good

By completing Girls Who Invest's rigorous program, talented and motivated women will be well prepared to enter the industry across all asset classes, including public and private equity, fixed income, credit, hedge funds, real estate, and infrastructure.

She EO’s model brings together 500 women Activators in each cohort, who each contribute $1100 as an act of radical generosity.

The money is pooled together and loaned out at low interest rate to 5 women-led ventures selected by the activators. All ventures are revenue-generating with export potential andcreate a better world through their business model or their product or service. Loans are paid back into the fund over 5 years and then loaned out again, which creates a perpetual fund to pass on to our daughters, granddaughters, and nieces.

Isabella Forum is a network that helps women better manage their money around major life events.

New SkillSpecific Communities Unite

Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women, works to increase diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and to create capital for women social entrepreneurs.The time commitment is approximately two full days per month for six months for a fee of $4,500. Each Pipeline Fellow commits to invest $5,000 in the same woman-led for-profit social venture at the end of the program.

In 2014, only 26% of U.S. angel investors were women and only 8% were minorities, according to the Center for Venture Research.

37 Angels is a community of women investors whose mission is to educate early stageinvestors.

We Are Enough advocates for women to invest their dollars into women-ownedbusinesses, especially those in technology, finance, and entertainment – threeindustries that greatly impact the world and women.

At Ellevest, for a fee of 0.5% of assets per year, women get saving plans and individualized portfolios of low-cost ETFs matched to distinct goals, such as retirement, a home purchase, or having a child.

DEVELOPING FINANCIAL VEHICLES DEDICATED TO FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS

Global Invest Her demystifies the funding process so women entrepreneurs become investor-ready and get funded faster. Global Invest Her offers community-based learning, webinars, and one-on-one mentoring.

Some programs offer microfinance and loans especially dedicated to women, like Catapult or Women’s Worldwide Web.


By completing Girls Who Invest's rigorous program, talented and motivated women will be well prepared to enter the industry across all asset classes, including public and private equity, fixed income, credit, hedge funds, real estate, and infrastructure.

She EO’s model brings together 500 women Activators in each cohort, who each contribute $1100 as an act of radical generosity.

The money is pooled together and loaned out at low interest rate to 5 women-led ventures selected by the activators. All ventures are revenue-generating with export potential andcreate a better world through their business model or their product or service. Loans are paid back into the fund over 5 years and then loaned out again, which creates a perpetual fund to pass on to our daughters, granddaughters, and nieces.

Isabella Forum is a network that helps women better manage their money around major life events.


Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women, works to increase diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and to create capital for women social entrepreneurs.The time commitment is approximately two full days per month for six months for a fee of $4,500. Each Pipeline Fellow commits to invest $5,000 in the same woman-led for-profit social venture at the end of the program.

In 2014, only 26% of U.S. angel investors were women and only 8% were minorities, according to the Center for Venture Research.

37 Angels is a community of women investors whose mission is to educate early stageinvestors.

YOU GETIN LIFE WHATYOU HAVE THECOURAGE TOASK FOR.— Oprah Winfrey

Since benefits and subsequent raises are generally based on initial wages, a lower starting salary could mean a lifetime of lower compensation and retirement benefits.Because most employers have some latitude when it comes to salaries, negotiating your salary can pay off.Knowing what your skills are worth, making clear what you bring to the table, emphasizing common goals, and maintaining a positive attitude are some negotiation tactics that have been shown to be effective for women (Babcock & Laschever, 2008).

Some websites train female employees to better negotiate their salary.

58% SAY THEY DON’THAVE THE INFORMATION

AND KNOWLEDGE TONEGOTIATE SUCCESSFULLY.

— LEVO 2015 SURVEY

The best way to close the gender pay gap is to make salaries public.

Some celebrities are being vocal about equal pay.

IT’S OURTIME TO HAVEWAGE EQUALITYONCE AND FOR ALLAND EQUAL RIGHTSFOR WOMENIN THE UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA.

— Patricia Arquette

New Skill Unite Speak up

Paradigm is a data-driven company that draws on behavioral science research to designeffective diversity and inclusion strategies.

Unbias.io is a Google Chrome extension that removes faces and names from LinkedInprofiles to reduce the effects of unconscious bias in recruiting.

Unitive is a hiring platform that helps companies create job postings and structure jobinterviews to focus on skills instead of stereotypes.

Project Include has been founded by Ellen Pao, and its mission is to give everyone a fairchance to succeed in tech. They are a nonprofit that uses data and advocacy to acceleratediversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry. Their website offers an exhaustive list ofadvice and tips for companies willing to take inclusion seriously.

Many organizations teach girls how to code.

Code to Inspire strengthens, inspires, andempowers women in Afghanistan throughtechnology education.

Girl Develop It is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable opportunities forwomen interested in learning web andsoftware development.

Toolkit Tech 4 Good New Skill

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who was the first to recognise that computers had applications beyond pure calculations. As a result, she is regarded as the first computer programmer.

It is time to celebrate women scientists and inventors.

When girls are shown what engineers do, 76% of them become interested in engineering.

Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and US Navy Admiral. She was the first to use the term “debugging” for fixing computer problems. Hopper developed the first working compiler and developed COBOL, a programming language still in use today.

The movie Hidden Figures tells the story of African-American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race.

Rana El-Kaliouby (born 1978) is an Egyptian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur. She focuses on facial expression recognition research, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotion being expressed by the face.

The blog Women Are Boring is filled with thought-provoking research done by women, in every field from arts and politics, to science and technology.

PROGRAMMINGBEFORE IT WAS COOL

Women in tech careers yearn for female role models and flexibility in the workplace.

Did you know that the first programmer was actually a woman?

Source: Pluralsight. Women Who Code.

New Heroes

Open, honest, and sex-positive, the Love Matters program is the global leader in delivering information and media on safe and satisfying sex to 18-30-year-olds in geographic areas where this information can be taboo.

Many innovative sex education programs flourish around the world.

Even Pornhub has launched a new sex ed site!

In France, “Parlons peu, parlons cul” is a fun sex education web series challenging entrenched taboos.

Laci Green is an American YouTube personality, video blogger, sex educator, and activist. She has hosted online sex education content on behalf of Planned Parenthood and Discovery News.

Gynopedia is an open resource wiki for sexual, reproductive and women's health care across the globe.

In her TED Talk “The laws that sex workers really want,” activist Juno Mac explains four legal models that are being used around the world to help sex workers. She discusses the model that she believes will work best to keep sex workers safe and offer greater self-determination.

In a brave talk called “The price of shame,” Monica Lewinski takes a hard look at our online culture of humiliation and asks for a different way.

New Skill

Reversing situations is always powerful.

The activist Cindy Gallop launched MakeLoveNotPorn to squash the myths of hardcore pornography and to begin a dialog around how real people have sex.

MAKE LOVE, NOT PORN

The Period Game is designed to teach participants about what is happening within the female body and how to “go with the flow.”

It utilizes abstracted representations of the female reproductive system, PMS symptoms, and various forms of sanitary protection to introduce players to these ideas.

SOME INITIATIVES ALSO WORK TO BREAK THETABOO ON MENSTRUATION

Menstrupedia Comic is a complete guide on periods designed by Menstrupedia that is in use by more than 30 schools across India. The books are being distributed in other countries like Nepal, South America, and Nigeria.

Reverse Tech 4 Good

Others are developing products adapted to women’s needs.

THINX launched period-proof underwear that protects you from leaks and keeps you feeling dry. And they are famous for their provocative communication.

Gaming

Eve by Glow is a savvy period tracker and sex app for women who want to take control of their health andsex lives.

Clue is designed to make tracking your fertilityaccurate, fast, and friendly.

Keep track of your monthly cycle by entering data about your period, pain, mood, fluid, sexual activity, and personal notes.

Ruby Cup is a healthier, more sustainable, cost-effective, and eco-friendly alternative to pads and tampons. Made from 100% soft medical-grade silicone, the menstrual cup is safe, comfortable, and hygienic.

MANY PROJECTS LEVERAGE FEM TECH

Glow is the world's best period and ovulationtracker and fertility calendar app.

The Boyfriend Log is the first ever app for tracking the health of any, or multiple,relationships.

Tech 4 Good

GIRLS ARE LIKE SUPERHEROES, WHO ELSE COULD BLEED FOR FIVE DAYS AND NOT DIE?

Some apps offer dating for feminists.

Bumble, often described as the feminist dating app, was created by Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of Tinder, after she left the company.What makes it different from other dating apps? Women do the talking.

And many more: Siren, Vina, Wyldfire, The League, Whim.

Source: Women.com, Ali Segel

AND WOMEN ARE NOW DEVELOPINGTHEIR OWN SEX TOYS

Pulse is an innovative personal lubricant dispenser that delivers your choice of water or silicone-based lubricants pre-warmed and mess free.

IT IS MY OBSERVATIONTHE MOST INNOVATIVE,DISRUPTIVE THINGS INSEX TECH TODAYARE COMING FROM WOMEN.BECAUSE WE AREFINALLY OWNINGOUR SEXUALITY.AND FINDING REALLYINNOVATIVE WAYS TOLEVERAGE IT. AS I LIKETO SAY, WOMENCHALLENGE THE STATUSQUO BECAUSE THEYARE NEVER IT.

— Cindy Gallop

Dame Products was founded by smart women to make phenomenal sex toys.

Tech 4 Good New Products

Or join the Skirt Club, an underground community for girls who play with girls…

Esther Perel is a Belgian psychotherapist notable for exploring the tension between the need for security and the need for freedom in human relationships.

Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, learn more about this unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.

You can learn orgasmic meditation.

Orgasmic Meditation is a practice that combines the power and attention of meditation with the deeply human, deeply felt, and connected experience of orgasm.

YOU CAN ALSO DISCOVER FEMINIST PORN


Feminist porn requirements according to the Feminist Porn Awards (FPA):

Women involved in the production/conception/direction.Depicts real female pleasure/orgasms and agency for all performers, especially women.More diverse representation of races, genders, sexualities, etc.Somehow challenges mainstream porn tropes, expands the boundaries of sexualrepresentation on film.

Source: goodforher.com/feminist_porn_awards

Good For Her, Toronto’s premiere sex and sexuality shop, launched the Feminist Porn Awards screening the most creative, expressive, diverse, and erotic pornography the industry has to offer.

As porn star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle famously said, “The answer to bad porn isn’t no porn… it’s to try and make better porn!”

Some websites help us to understand more about women’s pleasure.

OMGYES is a modern hands-on exploration of women’s sexual pleasure based on new research and using touchscreen simulations so you can try it all yourself.

We finally have the openness and research to take a clear-headed look at the many nuances of women’s sexual pleasure.

The research combines the wisdomof 2,000 women, ages 18-95,revealing techniques that hadn'teven been named yet.

Counter Storytelling New Skill

Project Consent is an international nonprofit campaign that combats sexual assault and rape culture by raising awareness and spreading education.

Doesn’t mean I owe you campaign by the Avalon Sexual Assault Center in Canada raises awareness of entitlement, misogyny, language, coercion, consent, and bodily autonomy.

Humor Awareness

Technology is also offering new apps fostering women’s safety.

Circle of 6 allows you to identify 6 close contacts to alert in case of danger.

Lifeline Response allows your phone to trigger an alarm system and call the authorities.

Safetipin crowdsources information based on nine factors in order to measure how safe the area in question is. These factors are lighting, openness, visibility, people density, security, walking paths, transportation in the area, gender, and feeling.

Safetipin is expanding its international presence. The app is already operational in Jakarta, Nairobi, Bogota, and Manila, and data collection is underway in eight more cities, including Rio de Janeiro, Kuala Lumpur, and Johannesburg.

Tech 4 Good

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT MEN AND WOMEN HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS, IF SOMEONE ASKS YOU IF YOU’RE A FEMINIST, YOU HAVE TO SAY YES.

— Aziz Ansari

More and more role models are promoting positive masculinities.

BECAUSE MEN OF QUALITY ARE NOT AFRAID OF EQUALITY

Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, Ryan Gosling, Aziz Ansari, and even the Dalai Lama are calling themselves feminists. Activists like Michael Kimmel, Gary Barker, andJackson Katz are inviting men to take a stand.

In the UK, the All Man series visits ultra-male worlds to explore how contemporary masculinity shapes the lives and expectations of men in Britain today.

Speak up

MAYBE THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL KINDS OF MASCULINITY, INCLUDING TOUGH GUYS, AS LONG AS EVERYONE IS KIND TO EACH OTHER.

— Grayson Perry

In "The Descent of Man," Grayson Perry turns around to look at men with a clear eye and ask, “What sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone?”What would happen if we rethought the old, macho, outdated version of manhood, and embraced a different idea of what makes a man? The solution, according to this book, is not to abandon masculinity altogether, but to shift it a little. Perry points to a new model of manhood, a more tender model, embodied by Barack Obama and David Beckham.

I HAVE GREAT FAITH IN THE MILLENNIALS. THEY WILL TAKE OVER, AND THAT TRUMPIAN MASCULINITY WILL DECLINE WHEN THEY DO.

— Terry Real

GENTLEMEN, IT'S TIME TO WRITE A NEW CODE OF MANHOOD

Source: The Guardian

Millennial media challenges our stereotypes.

Millennials are leading a much broader acceptance of diversity.

This generation is witness to a collision between traditional masculinity and a new wave, one that values intimacy, caregiving, and nurturing.

For decades now, female writers and theorists have been dismantling their biological gender from the perceived feminine roles that can restrict or harm their lives. It is only recently that we have started to do this with men too, to see a man as distinct from the concept and construct of masculinity. Maybe one of the reasons for this is that we have a tendency to regard men as the normal human state of things.

Counter Storytelling

American universities are starting to offer courses for men to deconstruct toxic masculinities.

Creating positive ideas of manhood.

The Duke Men’s Project offers a nine-week program that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, the language of dominance, rape culture, pornography, machismo, and other topics.

In Lebanon, ABAAD is campaigning to challenge the traditional view of masculinity.

Abaad Men’s Center aims to improve men’s reactions and emotions due to daily stress, and to support them in better dealing with and managing this stress. Abaad runs workshops on the gender socialization process to transform the way men and women understand manhood and masculinities.Program RA adapted from the Programme H manual of Promundo Brazil gives very useful examples of workshop exercises to raise greater awareness among participants.

MenEngage is an alliance of NGOs working together with men and boys to promote gender equality.

New Skill Toolkit

Promundo has been working for years in the field of masculinity.

Promundo’s Program H manual, translated into many languages, encourages critical reflection about rigid norms related to manhood.

Once Upon a Boy is a wordless cartoon video that tells the story of a boy and his experiences growing up, including peer pressure, his first sexual relationship, his first job, and becoming a father.

In Rwanda, Brazil and elsewhere, Promundo is engaging fathers via prenatal visits.

The video is designed to engage young men, educators, and health professionals in critical reflections about rigid models of masculinity and how they influence young men’s attitudes and behaviors.

MenCare is a global fatherhood campaign active in more than 40 countries on five continents. Their mission is to promote men’s involvement as equitable, non-violent fathers and caregivers in order to achieve family well-being, gender equality, and better health for mothers, fathers, and children.

Each year, MenCare releases the "State of the World’s Fathers" report to engage fathers to be more active in unpaid care.

Toolkit Counter Storytelling

What can you do?• Download the book! It is free!• Share it with your family / friends /

colleagues.• Have a conversation about the topic.• Pick one tactic you like, one subject you

are passionate about and implement your own initiative!

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