Рамзан Кадыров дал торжественный приём в честь Дня чеченской женщины

Chechen Republic

Chechen Women’s Day Video 
link to article

"The head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov wowed his all-female audience in Grozny by turning up to a ceremonial event dressed as a medieval warrior, complete with a rather large spear." 

What a truly amazing way to celebrate women and respect their value and safety. The president said he felt women in the Chechen republic have suffered too much turmoil and now he celebrates them and wishes for no more pain and afflictions. This blog is mainly just a shout out to the women in the Chechen Republic. The publicity that this program has brought has bringing awareness to women and their issues not only in their own country but also the entire world thanks to technology. 

The night was a culturally specific program for these women ending with fireworks. In order to show the transformation of a war torn area over the past 100 years hundreds of women came from various aboriginal tribes to preform at the palace. 

"Chechen Women’s Day has been celebrated on the third Sunday of September since 2009, and is held to remember the lives of 46 Chechen women who died during the war in the Caucasus."

I personally found this festivity to be very interesting and one i would want to attend. I really appreciate that they valued these women and their achievements in their own individualism. Each woman is different and have wonderful talents and abilities to share with the world. What a better way to see this than through dance and song. But women are not only noticed in their private life but also the public sphere including: science, math, medicine, and business. 

9/15/2016
India
24% of Facebook users are Women

Link to The Times of India article
So what does this say about women? For one, women either don't have access to the internet/technology or are permitted for one reason or another. More notably, it is not Facebook only that women are not frequently accessing but the numbers for access to other types of technology are comparable to those of Facebook users. Personally I see no harm in women or men using social media less frequently, it is more alarming that women unlike men in India do not have equal access to technology. This is surprising because India is the second largest global market for Facebook. As women users increase so do male users thus the online gender gap has been consistent over the years without a decrease.

The article makes an interesting comparison to the past. We can easily recall that women were left behind in the industrial revolution, the educational revolution, and now the digital revolution. On the bright side female internet users are likely to make up 40% of internet users in India by 2020. Reading this article and reflecting on it's relation to me, my first thought was I need to utilize my freedom of the internet and social media and then my immediate second thought was, nah... there are better uses of my time. And so this concludes my usage of social media today. I'm going to do as the Indians do, YOGA!

Labor Day

For the past year I have been involved in the WomanStats project. My job is to collect data on the status of woman around the world. I code data for 350 variables over 175 nations. When I started coding for WomanStats I quickly became more keenly aware of the suffering of millions of women around the world. Although these statistics can be disheartening there are also improvements world wide for women as well as they gain more freedoms to speak out for their rights. For my weekly blog posts this semester I want to share a statistic on one country per week about something that is happening recently in the news. I think it is important to be aware of social problems both in our community and around the globe.

This week my blog is about the United States. A recent article from NPR shared about women in the work in relation to Labor Day. A link to the article is here at npr.org. A shout out to the women in the summer Olympics in Rio and to my girl Beyonce who was nominated for a record 11 VMAs. Women in congress have increased from 15 to 108 in the past 40 years.

Women entering to their careers out of college is constantly increasing and women have the freedom to study any subject they choose. Although finding work, internships and networking can seem overwhelming sometimes I have never felt that I limited in my career choice because of my gender. I am overwhelmed with gratitude to be able to study at BYU and surrounded by many brilliant powerful women.

The U.S. Ranks 97th On Women’s Legislative Representation

Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, but they make up only 19 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives. That puts the U.S. at 97th out of 187 countries in terms of women’s legislative representation. 

• 1. Rwanda
• 3. Cuba
• 5. Sweden
• 7. Mexico
• 11. Iceland
• 26. Germany
• 32. Costa Rica
• 45. Sudan
• 52. Afghanistan
• 64. Canada
• 97. United States
• 106. Jamaica
• 110. South Korea
• 121. Chile
• 134. Russia
• 155. Brazil
• 174. Thailand
• 187. Haiti

Bibliography

Young, Ashley. In Celebration Of Labor Day, A Look At Women In The U.S. Workforce. 16 September 2016. News Article. 9 September 2016.