Amid COVID-19, moms forced to choose between career and child care

wapppHKS Join us this Friday for a conversation on breaking gender barriers and dynasty politics in parliamentary democracies with @smritiirani, Indian Cabinet Minister for Textiles and Women & Child Development. RSVP to join ⤵️ 🗓 Jan. 29 ⏰ 12-1 pm 💻t.co/vRdq4mLPXd t.co/sOmOucn2G6

11 hours 20 min ago.
ShorensteinCtr "White Feminism is a thing, but so is anti-racist feminism," and it has been since the 19th century - @TheBarbaraSmith in conversation with Dr. Benita Roth & @Koalani calls out the existing model for building a feminist and anti-racist future. @IARA_HKS @wapppHKS
13 hours 17 min ago.
wapppHKS .@TheBarbaraSmith on the origins on the term "Identity Politics" - the term was coined for Black women to determine and direct their own political agendas based on the intersecting identities they hold. Read more on the #Combahee River collective: t.co/C0lPBde5BF t.co/5m2MztKptH

13 hours 39 min ago.
Ratna_Gill You can't be a #white #feminist and expect that to work for women of color. The term "identity politics" arose because Black women wanted to center their intersectional identities. @TheBarbaraSmith @Koalani via @Kennedy_School @ShorensteinCtr @wapppHKS t.co/riu9zJXVNw t.co/dSI5uoEFhC
13 hours 41 min ago.
Ratna_Gill Our #feminism cannot ignore the movement to have women compensated for their domestic labor, & making sure those who work in the home have #healthcare. It's not just about the mom who makes it as an entrepreneur. @Koalani via @Kennedy_School @ShorensteinCtr @wapppHKS @IARA_HKS t.co/xkz49YeNRx
13 hours 46 min ago.
Ratna_Gill The image of the individual "working mom" being "empowered" making phone calls in her bathroom while driving her kids to school ignores structural critiques & work toward #gender progress. @Koalani @TheBarbaraSmith via @Kennedy_School @ShorensteinCtr @wapppHKS @IARA_HKS t.co/N7OHRl4JBi
13 hours 48 min ago.
Ratna_Gill An individualistic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps image of #feminism obscures the fact that feminism means working on the ground to #organize on behalf of BIPOC & the working class. @TheBarbaraSmith @Koalani via @Kennedy_School @ShorensteinCtr @wapppHKS t.co/DP8zqtp3xH
13 hours 50 min ago.
wapppHKS "Lean-in" Feminism assumes that everyone is able to become an #entrepreneur or make it to the management level. #Feminism gets defined as a white upper-class cisgender movement, and doesn't take into consideration all the issues marginalized folks have to deal with - Benita Roth
13 hours 51 min ago.
wapppHKS This is the kind of women’s movement that we want to build; something that takes into consideration more than the C-suite and the glossy magazine covers - @TheBarbaraSmith @ShorensteinCtr @Koalani @IARA_HKS
13 hours 53 min ago.
wapppHKS The idea of #intersectionality has been mainstreamed. It is nodded to as a set of political goals. There's now an explicit category around which we might organize, think, theorize to address intersecting power structures - Benita Roth, @ShorensteinCtr @IARA_HKS @Koalani
14 hours 13 sec ago.
wapppHKS .@TheBarbaraSmith: addressing white supremacy is going to have impact on marginalized genders. White supremacy is a #system, not a set of attitudes. In the US, there has never been a serious desire to address white supremacy, because many are benefiting from it @ShorensteinCtr
14 hours 3 min ago.
wapppHKS .@Koalani: Systemic racism is treated as something that can be alleviated by trainings that do not address the scope of white supremacy. What does addressing white supremacy in a holistic way do mean for marginalized genders?
14 hours 4 min ago.
wapppHKS The #COVID19 pandemic has revealed where there are healthcare deserts in the US. The US also has no national laws around sick days, vacation days, parental leave, which makes this country a huge outlier - Dr. Benita Roth @ShorensteinCtr @Koalani
14 hours 7 min ago.
wapppHKS "Essential workers" are disproportionately poor, working class women of color. At the same time, the careers of "lean in" white feminists are made possible by people who are most disproportionately affected by the pandemic - @TheBarbaraSmith @ShorensteinCtr
14 hours 10 min ago.
Koalani On Monday, I’m moderating a discussion “at” @Kennedy_School between @TheBarbaraSmith and Dr. Benita Roth, two writers and thinkers I admire deeply and who I cite in #whitefeminism. This event is free & open to the public. t.co/XjSav25VQ5
2 days 14 hours ago.
ShorensteinCtr Join us today at 1pm ET! t.co/SzqC7meTHd
17 hours 23 min ago.
wapppHKS Join us for our Spring Seminar Series on "Gender and Politics"! We look forward to a semester-long conversation about interventions to advance gender equity in governments across the globe. ⤵️ Check out our calendar to stay updated on upcoming events: t.co/sNSKGDW2mB t.co/xHTC0Smox5
5 days 8 hours ago.
wapppHKS There's still time to register for today's event "Beyond White Feminism: Not ‘Healing’ the US Back to an Anti-Feminist Future" with @TheBarbaraSmith and Dr. Benita Roth, moderated by @Koalani! ↪️ RSVP here: t.co/pLybcvX5PL cc: @ShorensteinCtr t.co/cgzPWAXEsG
17 hours 6 min ago.
wapppHKS Happy spring course shopping! Be sure to check out the @Harvard Gender Course Guide, which lists courses across the university with a primary or secondary focus on gender by interdisciplinary topic. t.co/xcQ5dXElXT t.co/uoA40lslek
1 week 6 days ago.
webfoundation 🔖 What we're reading #TheWebThisWeek 📖 REPORT - Women and Public Policy Program’s Gender Action Portal @wapppHKS @Kennedy_School t.co/uDnkUQdYEH t.co/fvyacnFNAI
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