Throughout history and even in present time women have always used their knowledge from education and experience to encourage others around them to become active members of society. We see prominent women who have progressed through the pipeline and gain high ranking work to create a mentorship within their peers and evoke efficacy among other females. One strategy that has worked in the progress of women is the growth of woman’s groups and organizations. Each group/organization stands for their own issues and work to promote different things among each other but most importantly all groups represent women. A more modern organization is Girls in Government.

As times change the number of women involved in politics slightly begins to increase women organizations help to keep the numbers higher. Women organizations give women a place to discuss and become active members in politics, it does this by creating a network between women of their peers and who stand for the same issues they do. When we branch together in women’s group and create a “sisterhood “it gives off positive change not only for themselves but the communities in which they work in. Girls in Government one example of a Women’s Organization that is working to create change and increase the political involvement among women.

Can image invoke change ?

 If people continue to see everyday visual of modern successful women in leadership positions the idea of women in highter positions will be less foreign to the world !

WE CAN DO IT !

As I begin to navigate through my sophomore year as a political science major at City College new responsibilities outside of school have been imparted in my life. I received a job offer from the Bronx YMCA to run two different civic engagement programs. Tuesday through Thursday I do an after-school curriculum known as Service Learning at a nearby school. This program consist of teaching children about the world and they live in , through lessons that revolve around community  service  and the whole course is taught through “project – based learning “ to captivate the children’s attention. I enjoy this program because it is a fun way for children to learn more about that world they live in outside of information obtained in the classroom. The program consists of middle school and high school students. The second program I facilitate is “Teen’s Take the City“, we meet every Monday. I am most excited about this program because it is a competition where teen groups from each YMCA branch have a chance to propose bills they feel will improve their community. They students participate in a mock session and there are a wide range of awards that can be won such as outstanding presenter, best debater, teen mayor and much more! I look forward to training my students to win these positions as well as teach them skills that will  benefit them for a lifetime!

For more details about the program you can check http://ymcanyc.org/index.php?id=1365

Feel free to email me of you have any suggestions or even inquires about the program!

raven@girlsingovernment.org

Johnetta Cole once said , " When you educate a man you educate an individual , when you educate a woman you educate the world "

True Or False !

Feel free to contact me at robinson.raven@gmail.com , to express your opinions on this quote , or even if you have suggestions for further blog post !

Most bloggers tell you their opinions on situations and leave you to disagree, agree or simply read for enjoyment. I have chosen to take a different approach and decided that I want to give my readers ideologies that will help them observe politics in a different way and come up with their own conclusion. It could be the conservative in me that makes me eager to enlighten people but as a political science major I have learned there is not only one answer to a question, there are so many logical possibilities.

Let’s begin with a guessing game, I have hair, a hemline and husband! Who am I? If you thought anything along the lines of female, women or wife you are absolutely right. Unfortunately there is a theory portrayed through the media that when women run for office these should be there main focus especially if the candidate running is the wife of a politician. During Elizabeth Dole’s run for president in 2000 nearly 62% of the print stories on Dole made multiple references to her husband, Bob Dole. A columnist for the Detroit News wrote that Dole’s “public speaking style looks and sounds like Tammy Faye Baker meet the Home Shopping Network “. Elizabeth graduated from two Ivy League institutions and they compare her to the “Home Shopping Network “, perplexing if you ask me!

The list of female politicians who have been affected by the three H’s in media stories is ongoing but in regards to gaining more votes does the discussion of their hair, hemline and husbands hurt or help them; friend or foe?