Source: http://kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/blog/page_191560_zhaina-forum-empowers-kazakh-women-to-become-leaders
It is beautiful to see that female activism is a global movement, the Time’s Up Movement has gone beyond American popculture and mediated many other nations’ movements. Kazakhstan had an International Women’s Forum on March 4th based off the female activism movement, the focus was on female entrepreneurship. Ambassadors for Canada and the U.S. spoke on the need for greater safety for women in the work space, including sexual harassment training, and the potential that women serve within the workplace.
Reimagined version of Rosie the Riveter
The most notable speaker in the forum, to me, was Megan Tetrick. The Attache of Culture and Education at the U.S. Embassy in Astana described the inherent power, independence, and intelligence that is a birth right for men, but something women must reach for in a patriarchal society. Female empowerment starts with the removal of competition between females, fighting over the affection of a male or the progression in a career. Women must build each other up, Megan suggests including other female’s feedback or ideas during meetings and promoting the economic gain of fellow female workers. Careers and entrepreneurship is hard to achieve due to gender roles, worldwide but very implicated in Kazakhstan’s culture, suggesting that females may economically progress after all domestic chores are completed. Female-lead companies and companies that are dominated by female workers perform better than other companies according to a spokesperson for the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction, possibly due to the challenges that these women face in atttaining an economic presence.
The article included a vast array of quotes about each speaker’s mode of female empowerment. It is very much different than the other articles I have reviewed, this is a social issue rather than governmental. This issue is something that all countries are facing and shows that no matter the governmental type or economic stability, females are fighting to break out of a second-rate citizen position.
Bibiliography:
Sadykova, Makhabbat. “ZHAINA FORUM EMPOWERS KAZAKH WOMEN TO BECOME LEADERS.” Kazakh-Tv.kz, 7 Mar. 2018, kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/blog/page_191560_zhaina-forum-empowers-kazakh-women-to-become-leaders.
“The Top 6 Conferences for Female Empowerment You Can’t Miss.” Worthy Blog, 2 Nov. 2017, www.worthy.com/blog/worthy-living/the-top-6-conferences-for-female-empowerment-you-cant-miss/.