His speech, delivered to a cheering crowd, touched on everything from the economy to immigration and electric vehicles. One of the most peculiar moments occurred when Trump started discussing electric boats. He said: "If I'm in a boat and it's all-electric and it starts to sink... I asked the guy 'do you get electrocuted sitting over this? '".
"And then I say - and I don't think there's anything wrong with this because it's an analogy - if there's a shark about 10 yards away, 'do I get electrocuted or do I go with the shark? ' I would take electrocution all day long.", reports the Express US.
Trump also brought up the Project 2025 agenda - a conservative wishlist of policies to implement during his second term. It includes plans to dismiss thousands of civil servants, dissolve the Department of Education and prohibit abortion pills.
Women are considered a minority group, because they do not share the same power, privileges, rights, and opportunities as men.
My name is Sofonie Dala. I am a black woman, my mother tongue is Portuguese, and my culture is African. Yes, I consider myself to be part of a minority group. Being a black African woman who speaks Portuguese, I navigate multiple layers of minority status in various contexts, especially in global and multicultural settings.
American sociologist Louis Wirth (1945, p. 347) defined minority groups as “a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination”.
Women as a Minority
Women are considered a minority group, because they do not share the same power, privileges, rights, and opportunities as men.
Learning Objectives
Criticize the notion that sexism does not exist in the contemporary United States based on the text
Key Points
Sexism is discrimination or prejudice based on sex. In a patriarchal society, sexism is discrimination against women specifically.
Women’s rights encompasses the entitlements and freedoms for women and girls of all ages in many societies around the world.
Although women have made great strides in gaining access to education and employment, to this day they continue to face significant hurdles that men generally do not confront.
Key Terms
women’s rights: Entitlements and freedoms claimed by women and girls of all ages in many societies in the pursuit of equality with men.
patriarchal: relating to a system run by males, rather than females
Women are not a statistical minority, as in most societies — they are roughly equal in number to men — but they do qualify as a minority group because they tend to have less power and fewer privileges than men. Underlying this unequal treatment of women is sexism, which is discrimination based on sex — in the context of a patriarchal society, discrimination against women in particular. Discrimination against women is evident in a number of different spheres of society, whether political, legal, economic, or familial. It must, however, be noted that the issue is rarely as simple as that of men versus women. Societies today are home to a variety of different classes, ethnicities, races, and nationalities, and some groups of women may enjoy a higher status and more power relative to select groups of men, depending on factors, such as what racial and ethnic groups they are associated with.
Sexism can refer to three subtly different beliefs or attitudes:
The belief that one sex is superior to the other
The belief that men and women are very different and that this should be strongly reflected in society, language, the right to have sex, and the law
It can also refer to simple hatred of men (misandry) or women (misogyny)
There a number of examples, both historical and contemporary, of women not being granted the same rights and access as men, both historically and in the present day. For instance, U.S. and English law, until the twentieth century, subscribed to the system of coverture, where “by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage. ” Not until 1875 were women in the United States legally defined as persons (Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162).
In the United States, women were treated as second-class citizens and not given the right to vote until 1920, when the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provided: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. ”
Although women have made great strides in gaining access to education and employment, to this day they continue to face significant hurdles that men generally do not confront. In economics, the term ” glass ceiling ” refers to institutional barriers that prevent minorities and women from advancing beyond a certain point in the corporate world, despite their qualifications and successes. The existence of a glass ceiling indicates that women, even today, do not enjoy the same opportunities as men.
Women’s Rights
Women’s rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies. In some places, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they may be ignored or suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls in favor of men and boys.
Issues commonly associated with notions of women’s rights include, though are not limited to, the rights to: bodily integrity and autonomy; vote (suffrage); hold public office; work; fair wages or equal pay; own property; be educated; serve in the military or be conscripted; enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental, and religious rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, advocates “the equal rights of men and women,” and addresses issues of equality. In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for legal implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it went into effect on September 3, 1981. The UN member states that have not ratified the convention are Iran, Nauru, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga, and the United States. Niue and the Vatican City, which are non-member states, also have not ratified it.
The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows:
Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
The Origins of Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social structure in which men are considered to have a monopoly on power and women are expected to submit.
Learning Objectives
Argue in favor of either a sociobiological or social constructionist explanation of patriarchy
Key Points
There are both sociobiological and social constructionist explanations of patriarchy.
Sociobiological explanations use human biology and genetics to explain male control, while social constructionist explanations say that individuals, male and female, actively construct gender roles.
According to social constructionist theories, gender roles are created by individuals within a society who choose to imbue a particular structure with meaning.
Key Terms
gender roles: Sets of social and behavioral norms that are generally considered appropriate for either a man or a woman in a social or interpersonal relationship.
social constructionism: The idea that social institutions and knowledge are created by actors within the system, rather than having any inherent truth on their own.
patriarchy: The dominance of men in social or cultural systems.
The origins of patriarchy are closely related to the concept of gender roles, or the set of social and behavioral norms that are considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex. Much work has been devoted to understanding why women are typically thought to inhabit a domestic role while men are expected to seek professional satisfaction outside of the home. This division of labor is frequently mapped onto a social hierarchy in which males’ freedom to venture outside of the home and presumed control over women is perceived as superior and dominant. As such, rather than working to destablize the historical notion of patriarchy, much literature assess the origins of patriarchy, or a social system in which the male gender role acts as the primary authority figure central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property. It implies the institutions of male rule and privilege and entails female subordination.
Though less popular in modern academic circles, there has been a traditional search for biological explanations of gender roles. Before the nineteenth century, this conversation was primarily theological and deemed patriarchy to be the “natural order. ” This took on a biological trope with Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution in The Origin of Species. In this work, Darwin explained evolution from the biological understanding that is now the accepted scientific theory. Biologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace quickly applied his theory to mankind. To be clear, though, the line of thought called Social Darwinism, or the application of evolutionary principles to the development of human beings and our social practices, was never promoted by Darwin himself. With the popularization of the idea of human evolution, what had previously been explained as a “natural order” for the world morphed into a “biological order. ”
The modern term for using biological explanations to explain social phenomena is sociobiology. Sociobiologists use genetics to explain social life, including gender roles. According to the sociobiologists, patriarchy arises more as a result of inherent biology than social conditioning. One such contemporary sociobiologist is Steven Goldberg, who, until retirement, was a sociologist at the City College of New York. In 1973, Goldberg published The Inevitability of Patriarchy, which advanced a biological interpretation of male dominance. Goldberg argued that male dominance is a human universal as a result of our biological makeup. One evolutionary sociobiological theory for the origin of patriarchy begins with the view that females almost always invest more energy into producing offspring than males and, as a result, females are a resource over which males compete. This theory is called Bateman’s principle. One important female preference in selecting a mate is which males control more resources to assist her and her offspring. This, in turn, causes a selection pressure on men to be competitive and succeed in gaining resources in order to compete with other men.
These sociobiological theories of patriarchy are counterbalanced by social constructionist theories that emphasize how certain cultures manufacture and perpetuate gender roles. According to social constructionist theories, gender roles are created by individuals within a society who choose to imbue a particular structure with meaning. Gender roles are constantly toyed with and negotiated by actors subscribing to and questioning them. Since the feminist movement in the 1970s and the flood of women into the workforce, social constructionism has gained even greater traction.
Dear friends, family,community members, partners, followers and stakeholders
I hope you’re doing well!
As part of my 21-Day Challenge to BECOME a BETTER version of ME, I am excited to share with you a declaration of who I am BECOMING and to invite you to be one of my accountability partners.
“TO
BE LIST” DECLARATION
My name is Sofonie
Dala and I AM a confident, supportive, proactive leader
who commits to empowering communities through sustainable development
and social innovation and will create meaningful and lasting
positive change for all.
This is the new me, and I
would be grateful if you could support me on this journey by holding me
accountable to this declaration. Your encouragement and support will mean a lot
to me as I work towards these goals.
Additionally, I’m thrilled
to invite you to the graduation ceremony of my 21-Day Challenge, where I will
celebrate this milestone along with other participants. I would be honored to
have you join me!
Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee.
Before Biden's decision was made, Reuters spoke to Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think-tank, a Democratic National Committee member and author of the book "Primary Politics" about the presidential nominating process, who explained how the process could work. Reuters also spoke to legal experts and Democratic Party officials.
Who will replace Joe Biden? Top Democrats tipped to win 2024 election nomination
President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election.
The decision comes after escalating pressure from Biden's Democratic allies to step aside following the June 27 debate, in which the 81-year-old president trailed off, often gave nonsensical answers and failed to call out the former president's many falsehoods.
President Biden: "I am endorsing Kamala Harris to be our next President of the United States"
"It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.
For my part: my very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made.
Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump."
2024 theme: It is still in our hands to combat poverty and inequity
Inspiring Speech of Sofonie Dala on Nelson Mandela Day
My name is Sofonie Dala, the founder of this incredible platform. I am a confident, supportive, and proactive leader dedicated to empowering communities through sustainable development and social innovation, striving to create meaningful and lasting positive change for all.
Today, we gather to renew our commitment to the values that Nelson Mandela so passionately embodied. His unwavering determination, deep commitment to justice, human rights, and fundamental freedoms, and his profound belief in the equality and dignity of every individual inspire us all. Mandela's relentless pursuit of dialogue and solidarity across all divisions made him a remarkable statesman, a fierce advocate for equality, and the founding father of peace in South Africa.
In times of turbulence, Nelson Mandela's legacy teaches us the power of resisting oppression, upholding justice over inequality, dignity over humiliation, and forgiveness over hatred. As we advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and strive to overcome new challenges, let us remember Mandela’s essential humanism: “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
This year, we unite under the theme: "It is still in our hands to combat poverty and inequity." Let this theme guide our actions and inspire us to take concrete steps towards a more equitable world. #ItsInYourHands
Last year, we honored Mandela's legacy by visiting rural communities on July 23, 2023, to raise awareness about his work and enduring impact. We engaged with these communities to discuss climate change, sustainable food systems, and Mandela’s vision.
Sharing Mandela's legacy with rural communities: Climate, Food and Solidarity
We are training children because they are the future. Our visit included a seminar on Mandela's legacy, climate change, and sustainable food systems. We used this day to unite the world in taking decisive action against global climate change, which leads to food insecurity.
We aspire to see a hundred Mandelas in the coming years. We want to inspire children, women, and young people to lead in the spirit of Nelson Mandela, a man of vision, integrity, perseverance, resilience, discipline, humility, and a deep sense of public service. True leadership is about serving the community, not being the best.
2024 Theme: Youth Skills for Peace and Development
In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship.
The theme for World Youth Skills Day 2024, "Youth Skills for Peace and Development," underscores the crucial role young people play in peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
The world faces a multitude of challenges today, many of which affect the youth. Violent conflicts disrupting education and stability, a polarized online environment fostering negativity, and persistent economic inequality limits opportunities. These issues threaten not only individual futures but also the overall stability of societies. It is crucial to equip youth with the necessary skills for fostering a culture of peace, nurturing responsible global citizens, and promoting sustainable development to build a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future for all.
On World Youth Skills Day, let us unite in recognizing the potential of young people as agents of peace and commit to providing them with the skills and opportunities to address challenges and contribute to a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future.
Did you know?
Recent estimates suggest that 600 million jobs would have to be created over the next 15 years to meet youth employment needs.
In 2021, approximately 75 million young people were unemployed, 408 million were employed, and 732 million were out of the labor force globally.
The share of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in 2020 – the latest year for which a global estimate is available – rose to 23.3 per cent, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the previous year and a level not seen in at least 15 years.
The youth population will grow by more than 78 million between 2021 and 2030. Low income countries will account for nearly half of that increase. Education and training systems need to respond to this challenge.
Good-quality apprenticeships, well-designed internships, and volunteering initiatives can provide entry points into the labor market for first-time jobseekers and young graduates.
Greetings! I'm Sofonie Dala, an oil and gas engineer passionate about making a positive impact. In honor of International Women in Engineering Day and World Engineering Day, I've launched a groundbreaking initiative called the Multiskilled Team of Future Engineers-Environmentalists.
This innovative platform invites children to participate in eco-friendly challenges, fostering a deeper connection with our planet and addressing one sustainable development goal each day through artistic expression. Together, we're painting a vibrant, green future for generations to come. Join me in celebrating diversity in engineering and environmental stewardship, and let's inspire the next wave of changemakers.
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) remains one of the most progressive legal instruments providing a comprehensive set of human rights for African women. Unlike any other women’s human rights instrument, it details wide-ranging and substantive human rights for women covering the entire spectrum of civil and political, economic, social and cultural as well as environmental rights. It would not be incorrect to name it the African Bill of Rights of Women’s Human Rights.
In line with the 2024 AU theme of the year, we celebrate Article 12 which guarantees women and girls rights to education and training.
Celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol: Linking Our Africa Educates Her Campaign
Hello, my name is Teresa, I am 13 years old, I stopped studying when I was in seventh grade in 2018 due to financial problems. All these kids who are here with me don't study either.
However, I would like to recite a poem about Covid-19:
There are diseases that are worse than diseases
There are diseases that are more than disease
That make things more urgent and more difficult
I fear coronavirus and zeal for my life
Our faith is the vaccine
The pandemic that now dominates the world haunts me
I didn't want this plague
Protect yourself and protect us
There is no evil that lasts forever
Have resilience because everything passes!
After reciting the poem, Teresa decided to leave an appeal to all sponsors and investors:
Coronavirus is one of the reasons that these children do not study. I hope that a sponsor will appear to finance the school for all the girls.
After all we had a basic class in which the children learned to speak English.
The class was so fruitful that at the end of the program, the children shouted in chorus "We want to study, we want to study"!
"We want to study, we want to study"!
"We want to study, we want to study"!
Celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol: Linking Our Africa Educates Her Campaign
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, known as the Maputo Protocol, is a landmark treaty that champions the rights of women and girls across the continent. In line with the 2024 AU theme of the year, we celebrate Article 12 of the Maputo Protocol, which guarantees women and girls the right to education and training.
Africa Educates Her Campaign: Ensuring Quality and Safe Education for All Girls
Our Africa Educates Her Campaign aligns perfectly with the values enshrined in the Maputo Protocol. The main goal of the campaign is to ensure all girls have access to quality and safe education by dismantling barriers imposed by Covid-19, poverty, teenage pregnancy, and child marriage. By addressing these challenges, we aim to create an environment where every girl can thrive and succeed.
Reintegration and Advocacy
The campaign works tirelessly to integrate girls who have dropped out of school back into the education system. We advocate at the international, regional, and national levels, putting pressure on governments and the international community to uphold the right to free, quality, public education for everyone.
Partnering with Communities
In addition to our advocacy efforts, we also seek to partner with communities in support of girls’ education. By working together, we can create sustainable solutions that empower girls and ensure their right to education is protected and fulfilled.
Join Us
Join us in celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the Maputo Protocol and support the Africa Educates Her Campaign. Together, we can make a significant impact on the lives of girls across Africa, ensuring they receive the education they deserve.
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