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On Equal Pay Day, let's remember that women still only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. Share this if you support equal pay for equal work.
Ramon Arias, Laura Stein, Mark Wasserman, David Stern, Stacy Tolos, Meagan Mirtenbaum and Amos Hartson.
A rally and press conference was held on Tuesday afternoon April 10th at the Daley Center in downtown Chicago to call attention to the fact that the state of Illinois is one of fourteen states yet to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex". The E.R.A, would provide legal protection for women in various ways including gender-based violence, equal pay, and pregnancy discrimination.
70% of America's poor are women. This also affects the children who depend on them.
Women make up roughly half the workforce and constitute two-thirds of minimum wage workers.
Women earn 79 and 44% of what men make adjusted for their race. The latter figure applies more to blacks and Hispanics.
Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty as men.
Passing the E.R.A. would ensure that employers could not give women less pay for doing the same work as a man.
For more information see: www.equalmeansequal.org.
equal pay day 2016 Auftaktveranstaltung zum Kampagnenstart mit Bundesministerin Manuela Schwesig (BMFSFJ) in Berlin
Fabio Fontana, Vice-President and Managing Director, Middle East, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, United Arab Emirates and Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence of the United Arab Emirates during the Session: Equal Opportunity: Artificial Intelligence at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, Jordan 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Bagan; (formerly Pagan) is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10.000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a main draw for the country's nascent tourism industry. It is seen by many as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
ETYMOLOGY
Bagan is the present-day standard Burmese pronunciation of the Burmese word Pugan, derived from Old Burmese Pyugam (meaning 'Pyu Village'). Its classical Pali name is Arimaddana-pura, lit. "the City that Tramples on Enemies". Its other names in Pali are in reference to its extreme dry zone climate: Tattadesa, "parched land", and Tampadipa, "bronzed country". The Burmese chronicles also report other classical names of Thiri Pyissaya and Tampawaddy.
HISTORY
7th to 13th CENTURIES
According to the Burmese chronicles, Bagan was founded in the second century CE, and fortified in 849 CE by King Pyinbya, 34th successor of the founder of early Bagan. Mainstream scholarship however holds that Bagan was founded in the mid-to-late 9th century by the Mranma (Burmans), who had recently entered the Irrawaddy valley from the Nanzhao Kingdom. It was among several competing Pyu city-states until the late 10th century when the Burman settlement grew in authority and grandeur.From 1044 to 1287, Bagan was the capital as well as the political, economic and cultural nerve center of the Pagan Empire. Over the course of 250 years, Bagan's rulers and their wealthy subjects constructed over 10000 religious monuments (approximately 1000 stupas, 10000 small temples and 3000 monasteries) in an area of 104 square kilometres in the Bagan plains. The prosperous city grew in size and grandeur, and became a cosmopolitan center for religious and secular studies, specializing in Pali scholarship in grammar and philosophical-psychological (abhidhamma) studies as well as works in a variety of languages on prosody, phonology, grammar, astrology, alchemy, medicine, and legal studies. The city attracted monks and students from as far as India, Ceylon as well as the Khmer Empire. The culture of Bagan was dominated by religion. The religion of Bagan was fluid, syncretic and by later standards, unorthodox. It was largely a continuation of religious trends in the Pyu era where Theravada Buddhism co-existed with Mahayana Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, various Hindu (Saivite, and Vaishana) schools as well as native animist (nat) traditions. While the royal patronage of Theravada Buddhism since the mid-11th century had enabled the Buddhist school to gradually gain primacy, other traditions continued to thrive throughout the Pagan period to degrees later unseen.
The Pagan Empire collapsed in 1287 due to repeated Mongol invasions (1277–1301). Recent research shows that Mongol armies may not have reached Bagan itself, and that even if they did, the damage they inflicted was probably minimal. However, the damage had already been done. The city, once home to some 50.000 to 200.000 people, had been reduced to a small town, never to regain its preeminence. The city formally ceased to be the capital of Burma in December 1297 when the Myinsaing Kingdom became the new power in Upper Burma.
14th to 19th CENTURIES
Bagan survived into the 15th century as a human settlement, and as a pilgrimage destination throughout the imperial period. A smaller number of "new and impressive" religious monuments still went up to the mid-15th century but afterward, new temple constructions slowed to a trickle with fewer than 200 temples built between the 15th and 20th centuries. The old capital remained a pilgrimage destination but pilgrimage was focused only on "a score or so" most prominent temples out of the thousands such as the Ananda, the Shwezigon, the Sulamani, the Htilominlo, the Dhammayazika, and a few other temples along an ancient road. The rest - thousands of less famous, out-of-the-way temples - fell into disrepair, and most did not survive the test of time.
For the few dozen temples that were regularly patronized, the continued patronage meant regular upkeep as well as architectural additions donated by the devotees. Many temples were repainted with new frescoes on top of their original Pagan era ones, or fitted with new Buddha statutes. Then came a series of state-sponsored "systematic" renovations in the Konbaung period (1752–1885), which by and large were not true to the original designs - some finished with "a rude plastered surface, scratched without taste, art or result". The interiors of some temples were also whitewashed, such as the Thatbyinnyu and the Ananda. Many painted inscriptions and even murals were added in this period.
20th CENTURY TO PRESENT
Bagan, located in an active earthquake zone, had suffered from many earthquakes over the ages, with over 400 recorded earthquakes between 1904 and 1975. The last major earthquake came on 8 July 1975, reaching 8 MM in Bagan and Myinkaba, and 7 MM in Nyaung-U. The quake damaged many temples, in many cases, such as the Bupaya, severely and irreparably. Today, 2229 temples and pagodas remain.
Many of these damaged pagodas underwent restorations in the 1990s by the military government, which sought to make Bagan an international tourist destination. However, the restoration efforts instead drew widespread condemnation from art historians and preservationists worldwide. Critics are aghast that the restorations paid little attention to original architectural styles, and used modern materials, and that the government has also established a golf course, a paved highway, and built a 61-meter watchtower. Although the government believed that the ancient capital's hundreds of (unrestored) temples and large corpus of stone inscriptions were more than sufficient to win the designation of UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has not been so designated, allegedly mainly on account of the restorations.
Bagan today is a main tourist destination in the country's nascent tourism industry, which has long been the target of various boycott campaigns. The majority of over 300.000 international tourists to the country in 2011 are believed to have also visited Bagan. Several Burmese publications note that the city's small tourism infrastructure will have to expand rapidly even to meet a modest pickup in tourism in the following years.
There is a well-known saying of Myanmar people : "If you are a real Myanmar, you must have been to Bagan." Bagan is spirit of history of Myanmar.
GEOGRAPHY
The Bagan Archaeological Zone, defined as the 13 x 8 km area centered around Old Bagan, consisting of Nyaung U in the north and New Bagan in the south, lies in the vast expanse of plains in Upper Burma on the bend of the Irrawaddy river. It is located 290 kilometres southwest of Mandalay and 700 kilometres north of Yangon. Its coordinates are 21°10' North and 94°52' East.
ARCHITECTURE
Bagan stands out for not only the sheer number of religious edifices of Myanmar but also the magnificent architecture of the buildings, and their contribution to Burmese temple design. The artistry of the architecture of pagodas in Bagan prove the achievement of Myanmar craftsmen in handicrafts. The Bagan temple falls into one of two broad categories: the stupa-style solid temple and the gu-style hollow temple.
STUPAS
A stupa, also called a pagoda, is a massive structure, typically with a relic chamber inside. The Bagan stupas or pagodas evolved from earlier Pyu designs, which in turn were based on the stupa designs of the Andhra region, particularly Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda in present-day southeastern India, and to a smaller extent to Ceylon. The Bagan-era stupas in turn were the prototypes for later Burmese stupas in terms of symbolism, form and design, building techniques and even materials.
Originally, an Indian/Ceylonese stupa had a hemispheric body (Pali: anda, "the egg") on which a rectangular box surrounded by a stone balustrade (harmika) was set. Extending up from the top of the stupa was a shaft supporting several ceremonial umbrellas. The stupa is a representation of the Buddhist cosmos: its shape symbolizes Mount Meru while the umbrella mounted on the brickwork represents the world's axis. The brickwork pediment was often covered in stucco and decorated in relief. Pairs or series of ogres as guardian figures ('bilu') were a favourite theme in the Bagan period.
The original Indic design was gradually modified first by the Pyu, and then by Burmans at Bagan where the stupa gradually developed a longer, cylindrical form. The earliest Bagan stupas such as the Bupaya (c. 9th century) were the direct descendants of the Pyu style at Sri Ksetra. By the 11th century, the stupa had developed into a more bell-shaped form in which the parasols morphed into a series of increasingly smaller rings placed on one top of the other, rising to a point. On top the rings, the new design replaced the harmika with a lotus bud. The lotus bud design then evolved into the "banana bud", which forms the extended apex of most Burmese pagodas. Three or four rectangular terraces served as the base for a pagoda, often with a gallery of terra-cotta tiles depicting Buddhist jataka stories. The Shwezigon Pagoda and the Shwesandaw Pagoda are the earliest examples of this type. Examples of the trend toward a more bell-shaped design gradually gained primacy as seen in the Dhammayazika Pagoda (late 12th century) and the Mingalazedi Pagoda (late 13th century).
HOLLOW TEMPLES
In contrast to the stupas, the hollow gu-style temple is a structure used for meditation, devotional worship of the Buddha and other Buddhist rituals. The gu temples come in two basic styles: "one-face" design and "four-face" design - essentially one main entrance and four main entrances. Other styles such as five-face and hybrids also exist. The one-face style grew out of 2nd century Beikthano, and the four-face out of 7th century Sri Ksetra. The temples, whose main features were the pointed arches and the vaulted chamber, became larger and grander in the Bagan period.
INNOVATIONS
Although the Burmese temple designs evolved from Indic, Pyu (and possibly Mon) styles, the techniques of vaulting seem to have developed in Bagan itself. The earliest vaulted temples in Bagan date to the 11th century, while the vaulting did not become widespread in India until the late 12th century. The masonry of the buildings shows "an astonishing degree of perfection", where many of the immense structures survived the 1975 earthquake more or less intact. (Unfortunately, the vaulting techniques of the Bagan era were lost in the later periods. Only much smaller gu style temples were built after Bagan. In the 18th century, for example, King Bodawpaya attempted to build the Mingun Pagoda, in the form of spacious vaulted chambered temple but failed as craftsmen and masons of the later era had lost the knowledge of vaulting and keystone arching to reproduce the spacious interior space of the Bagan hollow temples.)
Another architectural innovation originated in Bagan is the Buddhist temple with a pentagonal floor plan. This design grew out of hybrid (between one-face and four-face designs) designs. The idea was to include the veneration of the Maitreya Buddha, the future and fifth Buddha of this era, in addition to the four who had already appeared. The Dhammayazika and the Ngamyethna Pagoda are examples of the pentagonal design.
ECONOMY
Bagan's economy is based mainly on tourism. Because of boycotts against the previous military government, the Bagan region's tourism infrastructure is still quite modest by international standards. The city has a few international standard hotels and many family-run guesthouses. Bagan is also the center of Burmese lacquerware industry, which to a large degree depends on tourist demand. Much of the lacquerware is destined for souvenir shops in Yangon, and to the world markets. Moreover, the lacquerware-making process itself has become a tourist draw.
WIKIPEDIA
One of seven installations during the event Lights in Alingsås 2016 – the theme of the year is Enlightenment. It is based on the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development agreed to by 193 world leaders. This installation is inspired by the goal "5 Gender equality".
Workshop head: Sabine De Schutter, Germany: "When I was a child, everything seemed equal. I thought I could do anything and everything. I´ve realized our world isn´t equal at all! I understand why they said not to play football or to go out after dark. My voice isn´t heard equally, I don´t have the same opportunities. I am a woman.
One day I wish to see equal chances and respect for all girls and women. That we feel safe whenever and wherever we go. I wish for a better world!"
Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 80 000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website about this year´s event in English and Swedish)
Every person regardless of sex and age or disability has equal rights, namely right to education, right to life and right to social society in accordance with the rule of law. The painting represents the cross circle indicators above as the following the circle indicates the request to stop all forms of human right violation, sex integrality as shown by the symbol of male and female in equality between disable person and persons as show by an old women sitting on the wheelchair in equality to access to education and children as shown by a girl sitting with her head down. If the society has equal rights, there will be peace and prosperity is shown by the bird’s wings.
National Firefighter's Union head Peter Marshall. His speech centered around the point that discrimination shouldn't happen in marriage if it shouldn't happen in the workplace.
It seemed fairly repetitive at the time, and it was clear that he was used to playing the "down-home simple guy", but obviously the speech worked well if it's the one I can remember specifics from.
To make up for all those dog pictures I've been posting. Tee shirt in a Waikiki store window. Original cartoon by Kliban.
Parliament: Exhibition opening on Heroes' Square on 100 years Women's Suffrage. Portraits of the first pioneers on the long road to equality. Vienna (PK) - 100 years ago, eight women moved into the Constituent Assembly of the Austrian Parliament for the first time, after the legal foundations were created in 1918. Under the title "Equal Rights - 100 Years of Electoral Rights for Women", the Parliament is now dedicating to these pioneers another exhibition on Heroes' Square, which was officially opened today on International Women's Day. The first female parliamentarians, whose portraits are now presented in a kind of "wall newspaper", have proven that it pays to fight for the cause of equal rights, stressed National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka. As with the 100th anniversary exhibition, which was a great success and was visited by more than 500 people each day, it now aims to bring a very important topic back into the collective consciousness. We should take these eight women as models, explained the Second National Council President Doris Bures, because they had shown what is possible, if women in all unity and consistency to improve the living conditions. Even if much has already been achieved, this path must be continued so that women can lead a self-determined and independent life. Meanwhile, there are 68 mandates in the House, Bures pointed out, but it took more female representatives at federal, state and local level. According to Anneliese Kitzmüller, the third president of the National Council, there is still room for improvement in many areas. In particular, it takes more appreciation for all women, no matter which life model they choose, because all activities are worth the same. In any case, she will do its utmost to support and promote women in the realization of their wishes.
The first pioneers for the democratic participation of women in Austria
On the ten stands, the first eight parliamentarians and the later Federal Council President Olga Rudel-Zeynek - the world's first woman at the head of a legislative body - are portrayed. The Protaganists from different political camps - Anna Boschek, Hildegard Burjan, Emmy Freundlich, Adelheid Popp, Gabriele Proft, Therese Schlesinger, Amalie Seidel, Maria Tusch and Olga Rudel-Zeynek - were the trailblazers for women becoming a decisive factor in politics. The freely accessible exhibition on Heldenplatz, which can also be visited as part of guided tours, was conceived by Astrid Kury, President of the Graz Academy, and architect Alexander Kada. These are outstanding personalities who, despite all - in part massive - resistances for women's rights, explained Kury. As many of them grew up under dramatic social conditions, she placed the issue of justice at the center of the concept. Exhibitions in public space are the latest format, Alexander Kada was convinced, because it was a way to approach the visitors. He hopes that the "wall newspaper" will be accepted on the displays as well as the previous one for the Republic's founding.
Parlament: Ausstellungseröffnung am Heldenplatz zu 100 Jahren Frauenwahlrecht
Porträts der ersten Pionierinnen auf dem langen Weg zur Gleichberechtigung
Wien (PK) - Vor 100 Jahren zogen erstmalig acht Frauen in die Konstituierende Nationalversammlung des österreichischen Parlaments ein, nachdem im Jahr 1918 die gesetzlichen Grundlagen dafür geschaffen wurden. Unter dem Titel "Gleiche Rechte - 100 Jahre Wahlrecht für Frauen" widmet das Parlament nun diesen Pionierinnen eine weitere Ausstellung am Heldenplatz, die heute am Internationalen Frauentag offiziell eröffnet wurde.
Die ersten weiblichen Parlamentarierinnen, deren Porträts nun in einer Art "Wandzeitung" präsentiert werden, haben bewiesen, dass es sich lohnt, für die Sache der Gleichberechtigung zu kämpfen, betonte Nationalratspräsident Wolfgang Sobotka. Wie schon bei der Ausstellung zum 100-jährigen Republiksjubiläum, die ein großer Erfolg war und täglich von über 500 Personen besucht wurde, wolle man damit nun erneut ein sehr wichtiges Thema in das kollektive Bewusstsein rücken.
Wir sollten uns diese acht Frauen zum Vorbild nehmen, erklärte die Zweite Nationalratspräsidentin Doris Bures, denn sie hätten gezeigt, was möglich ist, wenn sich Frauen in aller Geschlossenheit und Konsequenz für eine Verbesserung der Lebensumstände einsetzen. Auch wenn vieles schon gelungen sei, so müsse dieser Weg fortgeführt würden, damit Frauen ein selbstbestimmtes und unabhängiges Leben führen können. Mittlerweile gebe es 68 Mandatarinnen im Hohen Haus, zeigte Bures auf, aber es brauche noch mehr weibliche Vertreterinnen auf Bundes-, Länder- und Gemeindeebene.
Auch nach Auffassung von Anneliese Kitzmüller, der Dritten Nationalratspräsidentin, gebe es noch in vielen Bereichen Luft nach oben. Es brauche insbesondere mehr Wertschätzung für alle Frauen, egal für welches Lebensmodell sie sich entscheiden, denn alle Tätigkeiten seien gleich viel wert. Sie werde sich jedenfalls dafür einsetzen, dass Frauen bei der Verwirklichung ihrer Wünsche unterstützt und gefördert werden.
Die ersten Wegbereiterinnen für die demokratische Partizipation von Frauen in Österreich
Auf den zehn Standrahmen werden die ersten acht Parlamentarierinnen sowie die spätere Bundesratspräsidentin Olga Rudel-Zeynek - weltweit die erste Frau an der Spitze einer gesetzgebenden Körperschaft - porträtiert. Die Protaganistinnen aus verschiedenen politischen Lagern - Anna Boschek, Hildegard Burjan, Emmy Freundlich, Adelheid Popp, Gabriele Proft, Therese Schlesinger, Amalie Seidel, Maria Tusch und Olga Rudel-Zeynek - waren die Wegbereiterinnen dafür, dass Frauen zu einem entscheidenden Faktor in der Politik geworden sind.
Konzipiert wurde die frei zugängliche Ausstellung am Heldenplatz, die auch im Rahmen von Führungen besucht werden kann, von der Präsidentin der Akademie Graz Astrid Kury sowie vom Architekten Alexander Kada. Es handle sich um herausragende Persönlichkeiten, die trotz aller - teils massiven - Widerstände, für die Frauenrechte eingetreten sind, erläuterte Kury. Da viele von ihnen unter dramatischen sozialen Bedingungen aufwuchsen, habe sie die Frage der Gerechtigkeit in den Mittelpunkt des Konzepts gestellt. Ausstellungen im öffentlichen Raum seien das Format der Stunde, war Alexander Kada überzeugt, weil man sich damit auf die BesucherInnen zubewege. Er hoffe, dass die "Wandzeitung" auf den Displays genauso gut angenommen wird wie die vorangegangene zur Republiksgründung.
www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20190308_OTS0126/parlamen...
File name: 10_03_001269a
Binder label: Medical
Title: Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient - Why yes! It's equal to an hour's walk or a draught of morning dew. (front)
Created/Published: New York : Wemple & Company
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 7 cm.
Subject: Men; Patent medicines
Notes: Title from item. Item verso is blank.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
This photo was taken at Sangam, Allahabad, showing mother and daughter carrying load of things, here it shows that girl child is helping her mother in house hold work, hence staying at home, on the other hand boys use to attend school
One of seven installations during the event Lights in Alingsås 2016 – the theme of the year is Enlightenment. It is based on the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development agreed to by 193 world leaders. This installation is inspired by the goal "5 Gender equality".
Workshop head: Sabine De Schutter, Germany: "When I was a child, everything seemed equal. I thought I could do anything and everything. I´ve realized our world isn´t equal at all! I understand why they said not to play football or to go out after dark. My voice isn´t heard equally, I don´t have the same opportunities. I am a woman.
One day I wish to see equal chances and respect for all girls and women. That we feel safe whenever and wherever we go. I wish for a better world!"
Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 80 000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website about this year´s event in English and Swedish)
For me, real is ALWAYS better. I like things real, flaws and all. Perfection kinda creeps me out, perhaps because I fall so short from it.
Vandana Bahadur Maida rst heard about a gram sabha (public village meeting) when she was elected as the Sarpanch (head) of the Khankhandvi Gram Panchayat (village council) in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh. She now dreams of building a big pond to tackle water shortage and a high school so children can study further. UN Women helps to train 65,000
elected women representatives like Vandana so they can influence public services. Mobiles are being used so these leaders can receive much-needed information to carry out their roles and responsibilities.
Photo credit: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh