[WSIS CS-Plenary] VIVE LES FEMMES

[mclauglm at po.muohio.edu]

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>Location, location, location: Vittorio, your 2 
>cents worth sells short the issue. I'd want at 
>least a quid. Your conclusion is only a 
>conclusion, not an analysis. To put it as 
>succinctly as possible, in hopes that someone 
>educated in feminist studies might be able to 
>accomplish this, there is a bit of truth to your 
>conclusion. But, let's look at the factors that 
>figure into it. First, in patriarchal societies, 
>some women will benefit by being outdoing the 
>"Old Boys" in their usual function. There also 
>will be some progressive voices from men, mostly 
>men who have learned from the feminist movement. 
>Which should suggest that we should have less 
>patriarchy and more feminism, to put this in the 
>simplest terms. Although I agree (and have 
>experienced the situation) with the situation in 
>which men *may* be more progressive on gender 
>equality than may be women, it's far more likely 
>that women, who are affected especially by 
>gender discrimination, will be the more 
>important voices when it comes to being "civil 
>servants" (?) that are devoted to gender 
>justice. So, my money (figuratively speaking) 
>continues to be put toward women who continue to 
>advance progressive issues and most certainly 
>feminist advances, and even more particularly, 
>the issues related to women in the Global South, 
>where uneven development and gender have to be 
>considered together.

I suppose that if you don't accept my 
conscious-raising effort, we can always 
arm-wrestle to settle the issue. But, please let 
me warn you in advance: I am a member of the 
Women's Studies faculty at my university;-)

Regards,


Lisa

>Vittorio Bertola wrote:
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>>I think you will have reached gender parity 
>>when you will start to judge civil servants by 
>>what they do, rather than by their gender.
>>My two cents,
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Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Women's Studies
Editor, Feminist Media Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication
Union for Democratic Communications Representative,
World Summit on the Information Society

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