Family Friendly Blogging
In my Women in Leadership class tonight we discussed how the future of the internet, specifically blogs, will help to motivate more women to stay involved in Politics. For those of you who are unaware, female participation in our political system is on the decline because of our system's lack of support for family friendly policy.
Blogging, and its decentralizing ability to change communication from a top down to a more parallel structure, has the power to greatly effect future political relations. As blogs and other forms of internet discussion become more prominent within communities, I think we will have the ability help decentralize some of the inherently masculine institutions in our society. Hence, we will have a greater ability to change to the status quo and increase feminine participation in our political systems.
NOTES TO PONDER: How else can the internet be utilized to advance family friendly policy?
2 Comments:
This reminds me a lot about the courses i took relating to feminism in college. Basically, we still live in a male dominated world. In politics just as in the world overall, it won't become more female friendly/family friendly by leaving it up to men. Women need to stand up and act. If some stuffy old white guy calls you a b***h for it, so be it.
10:09 PM
Our present system of work assumes that the person working has someone home who will always be there when the kids get sick, have snow days, have teacher professional days, etc. In order for women to "stand up and act," that has to change. Otherwise, they'll always be at a disadvantage. (Do you remember the O.J. trial, when the judge wanted everybody to stay late, & the female prosecutor was the only one who couldn't, because she didn't have a chance to make baby-sitting arrangements? Everyone else took it for granted that everyone is free to devote themselves to whatever the job demands.)
5:11 PM
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