Not sure if I had to blog this week, but just to make sure here we go! I attended the FYE event The Tunnel of Oppression. One of the rooms talked about woman and the glass ceiling in the workplace. Another room showed how hurtful words and media can be towards women. I think these two rooms go right along with our Women in Leadership class.
The glass ceiling room just refreshed my knowledge of all the horrible statistics about women in the workplace, such as ow low women's salaries are compared to men's and how few women are in the CEO and top managers of Fortune 500 companies. These statistics bother me and I hope that these numbers make an impact on other girls.
The room about the media effects on girls was almost nauseating. There were pictures of girls throwing up to become skinnier. There were pictures of girls doing extremely dangerous drugs to take them away from the world that they live in now. There were dehumanizing words along the walls. It was a lot to take in at once. Many people agree that the media needs to change, but it seems like no one is doing anything about it. One of the problems is that nobody knows how to address this problem. Companies are going to do whatever to get their products sold and if that requires a barely clothed anorexic woman, then so be it. This needs to change, but that requires people's wants to change. That change could be impossible, and if possible would take a extended amount of time because these "perfect" images are already ingrained in the minds of the youth today.
Well, wrapping up, I obviously had some strong feelings towards The Tunnel of Oppression.
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