Fighting for women’s rights in Georgia – a state where women need it most
I thought this was an interesting perspective from a woman who's a champion for women's rights in the Deep South. Please feel free to cross post to Georgia group.
Fighting for women’s rights in Georgia – a state where women need it most
Posted in Guest Columns Date: July 6th, 2014
By Guest Columnist STEPHANIE DAVIS, recently retired (or as she says ‘rewired and re-inspired’) executive director of Georgia Women for a Change
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To everyone who wonders how a feminist can survive—and thrive—in this state, how she can continue to persist, to overreach, to maintain an optimism in the face of so much hostility to women, I have this to say. I wouldn’t be anywhere else.
In the 30 years I have lived here, I have seen a creep towards more women’s leadership and the difference it has made in better government (thank you, Shirley Franklin and Stacey Abrams); in philanthropy (thank you, Alicia Philipp); in global non-profits (thank you, Helene Gayle); in the women’s colleges here (thank you Beverly Tatum and Elizabeth Kiss); in corporate Atlanta (thank you, Hala Moddelmog); and in the arts (thank you, Virginia. Hepner)...
...The backlash from the Tea Party and less obvious foes just tells us that we are on the right track. Social change can seem so glacially slow at times that it is difficult to persist. So many in society take it for granted that women have achieved equality in the home and the workplace, and they need to be reminded that we have a long way to go.
It is a lot of those same people who think that race is no longer an issue either, and that there are just a few whiners and troublemakers out there....
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