Numbers Matter. How Long Has This Been Going On?
Easter is on April 1st this year. Income Inequality for women & what happened to me in 2016 is the inspiration for Revolving Door HR. Seeing the turmoil in the Insurance Industry first hand with repeated attempts to "Repeal & Replace Obamacare," I decided to go back to my roots in Advertising which I have a degree in.
OMG - what a nightmare 2016 was.
Below is something I wrote back in January to reflect how MISOGYNY in the workplace hurts women.
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When we learn to communicate with Emotional Intelligence, we don't insult others right to their face. This is what I'm saying when I speak of Media Manipulation of images.. We cannot blame the victim, holding INDIVIDUALS ACCOUNTABLE for the actions of others. How are WOMEN to blame for all of those insulting NUMBERS???
Nobody I know had ever acted this way
Communicated this way
Spoken this way
yet here I am facing NUMBERS-BASED MISOGYNY. I have a vested interest in fixing this for the girls.
I am a white, English-speaking woman who is perpetually stuck in the '80s being VICTIMIZED by those NUMBERS.
My story is one of Rags to Riches & back to Rags again.
The entire point of Revolving Door HR is to fix that calendar for the girls. 2016 was a nightmare of one hostile, toxic misogynistic job after another, so I did what the financial experts say not to do: I quit my day job & went into business for myself.
Consider the month of April, the FOURTH MONTH of the year.
One man I worked for in 2016 who bought an ICONIC ADVERTISING MEDIUM that 100% of everyone would know, thought it would be a good idea to hire a sales staff of all women, then attack us with an internal memo beginning on April 1st, "April Fool's Day" & ending on April 15 - income tax day:
I am STILL NOT LAUGHING.
Tonight is the Grammy Award presentation at Madison Square Garden that I'm sure will be a NIGHTMARE
I wonder if any WOMEN will be PUNCHED IN THE NOSE?
This is my motivation in working for Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment into the US Constitution.
Misogyny is PREJUDICE against WOMEN.
I don't find it productive to turn on the TV on a daily basis & hear about Racism, when actually the correct word is Prejudice.
Learning to treat PEOPLE as INDIVIDUALS will go a long way in ENDING PREJUDICE OF ALL KINDS.
