Got Equity? – A Day without Women reminds us where there is work to do.

Women are ½ of our population. They work long and hard hours, but they are marching to be heard on vital issues and rights.  One can look at the demographics, the issues, and the economic impact to “the weaker sex” a delay in pay, medical care access, the right to dissent, the right to marry, the right to stay in the country, the right to not be discriminated against, the right to constitutional protections and the courts can make.

Women are worried about access to preventative care, birth control, women's health issues like stress and heart attack or stroke along with $15.00 an hour, getting a child to school, child care, good education, and stability for themselves, their parents, their husbands, homes and children. 

With more women working, they do not feel represented fairly in the matter of respect, job options, green cards, cost of living, access to capital, access to their representatives, or their primary care doctors.  It seems to be getting worse or the issues themselves seem on track to be stymied or rolled back. What about seniors, girls, immigrants, and minorities?  Women are speaking out. Leadership, hard work, and communities of focus are making progress and since yesterday the new U.S. healthcare proposal was not welcomed as a solution, but a greater problem.  What is clearer by the number of protests...sections of our population feel left out.  People march to be heard as part of a democracy.  Will the leadership in Washington respond?

The rush to pass any bill without vetting that has more consequences and costs than discussed continues the sense that "no one is listening" to "we. the people", but to a democracy that money and influence has greatly impacted.

However great nonprofits, working women, girls, teachers, and men came out in red yesterday to protest, state the conditions they face, and move the U.S. towards another policy agenda.  We have the potential for better policies, kinder and more expansive decision-making, and funding for jobs, health care subsidies, realistic and well-researched health care insurance that covers all Americans and does not discriminate, burden or put populations at risk.  "I am woman" hear me rise seems back in vogue. The rest is her-story.

 

Business and Economy:

 

https://www.nwbc.gov/research/economic-impact-women-owned-businesses-united-states

 

http://www.economist.com/node/15174418

 

50/50 Leadership:

https://www.facebook.com/5050Leadership

 

UN Commission on the Status of  Women: (March 4-15 Prevention of Violence against women and girls) and Meeting Frameworks:

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/57sess.htm

 

How it started:

http://womenwatch.unwomen.org/international-womens-day-history

 

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-0P6BSvho

 

Let them wear pink…teachers and students weigh in:

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/7/headlines/some_schools_planning_to_close_for_day_without_a_woman_strike

 

YWCA:

http://www.ywca.org/site/c.cuIRJ7NTKrLaG/b.9360173/k.1089/YWCAEliminating_Racism_Empowering_Women.htm

 

http://www.ywca.org/site/c.cuIRJ7NTKrLaG/b.9508899/k.B3CC/YWCA_USA_Condemns_All_Forms_Of_Racism.htm

 

Museums today:

http://womensmuseumca.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Women_in_the_Arts

 

Socio-Economic Status (Minority or Substandard representation/class?);

http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/minorities.aspx

 

California Women’s Legislative Caucus:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=california+womens+legistlative+caucus&;t=ffab&ia=web

 

Rethinking this:

http://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/WIT%20Report_0.pdf

 

http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/01/banking-on-women-extending-womens-access-to-financial-services

 

http://luskin.ucla.edu/regional-international-development

 

http://www.wowonline.org/women-and-work-project/

 

http://www.nwlc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Building_New_Possibilities.pdf

 

https://www.thebalance.com/trends-and-statistics-for-women-in-business-3515943

 

Career or Motherhood in conflict or policy and action gap:

http://www.wlmaconnect.org/

 

Bills that could matter to our economy:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/legis/15_16bills/assembly.shtml

 

Issues:  http://now.org/issues/

http://livingwage.mit.edu/

 

Other Marches:

https://www.womensmarch.com/sister-stream

 

Crisis:

http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-immigration-children-idUSL2N1GG1PY

 

Other Viewpoints:

http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage

 

http://www.epi.org/publication/bp224/

 

http://reslife.berkeley.edu/academics/theme-programs/women-science-engineering

 

Health and disparities:

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/2/343.full

https://thewire.in/115284/democrats-medical-providers-oppose-trump-health-plan/

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-womens-health-services/

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/01/obama-administration-orders-insurers-to-pay-for-womens-health-screenings.html

 

https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/05/pdf/women_obamacare.pdf

 

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1357/defund-planned-parenthood/

 

Issues for access, equity, and policy at the crossroads-Telemedicine:

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/3/485.abstract?=right

 

Annual Report on Women and Poverty:

https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/2015%20Report%20on%20Women%20and%20Girls_tcm3-51854.pdf

 

Supervisors pass a 5 year initiative:

http://supervisorkuehl.com/womenrisela/

http://www.hollynear.com/peace.html

 

Hip video:

http://supervisorkuehl.com/womenrisela/

 

Tikkun….building a caring society…growing more human reformation and discussion all round the world:

http://spiritualprogressives.org/newsite/?page_id=35

 

https://msfconversations.wordpress.com/

 

http://www.durban.gov.za/media_publications/Pages/Building_a_Caring_Society.aspx

 

Policy, issues and gaps….greivances… (rape, domestic violence, childcare, work issues, abuse, representation, era)…

 

http://www.clasp.org/

 

http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/indicator/index.aspx

 

https://www.census.gov/population/international/about/analysis.html

 

Census:

https://www.thenation.com/article/week-poverty-us-single-mothers-worst/

 

Huffington Post to Eleanor Roosevelt:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/4-womens-issues-that-havent-changed-since-1911_n_3606537.html

 

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womens-movement.cfm

 

https://library.albany.edu/speccoll/roosevelt/roosevelt3.htm

 

Teen Voices:

http://www.iyms.org/womensrights

 

A Case for building networks and kindness as an initiative:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriekerpen/2013/11/18/kindness-does-not-equate-to-weakness-in-leadership/#73e4295642b9

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Kindness_Movement

 

https://www.amazon.com/Profit-Kindness-Jill-Lublin-ebook/dp/B01MSWN0EV%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-ffab-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB01MSWN0EV

 

http://www.thekindnesseconomy.com/

About: Reading well equates to recognition. In life or at work,  broad social participation requires skill in language arts and thinking ability. Today fluency translates into better life options. The demand for student achievement is essential to earning. Vital decision making is a driver of our economy. 





Music educator,VAPA teaching artist, and the Director of New Education Options, Inc. a California public benefit charity, Bo works or volunteers to advocate for learners and educators. Teamed with William Elliott in Greater LA and the Inland Empire, they use writing and music as a catalyst for student school success through Stem and STEAM.





A CAC AIS instructor, Globe Elementary artist, and learning integration coach, she applies ESL, English Language Arts and Reading pedagogy to risk taking and creativity helping at-risk students to "learn how they learn".  Their initiative "The Water Buddy Initiative" uses songwriting to bring cognitive learning theories into rigorous and relevant application in the classroom or as transformational learning through technology after-school enrichment program.  In 2005, they became 'No Child Left Behind Supplemental Service Title I Providers' for At-Risk Learners. In 2013-14, we continued to work on our reader to link the LA River to classrooms and learning. In 2015,  NEO,Inc. is building a community of educators and advocates to fund new jobs training Musical Linguistics arts education teachers, and providing information to parents and schools on programs that build vocabulary and conservation.  Using national core standards to build reading comprehension through Science (STEM) skills, Bo uses music to link gains in reading, linguistics, memory and word play.



 

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For fun, punch in on (top) "Tostadas and Angels" or (bottom) "All Hearts are Home for Christmas" contributed by NLO, NEO, Inc. and Mindspan Music for your holiday delight. Donations can be made to New Education Options, Inc. by Paypal.  Watch for new listings to buy the sheet music from the show or this classic Christmas Carol.

  





"All Hearts are Home for Christmas" is a cut of The Wind in the Willows CD available through Ingram Entertainment and download from several digital download resellers. 

Our live performances, literacy development programs and learning center project will receive donations from your purchases such as record sales, downloads or speaking engagements. Watch for "Arts Sanctuary at the Crossroads" textiles and tee-shirts coming in 2009. 

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New Life Options A/V is the Publisher/Label of Freedom from Back Pain and The Original Cast CD of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by William Elliott in Sherman Oaks, CA