{"id":1296,"date":"2017-08-14T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2017-08-14T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T12:00:53","slug":"respect-women-role-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/respect-women-role-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect for Women: Where Are Our Role Models?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1298\" src=\"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Respect-for-Women-Where-Are-Our-Role-Models-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Respect-for-Women-Where-Are-Our-Role-Models-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Respect-for-Women-Where-Are-Our-Role-Models.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When President Trump and Melania Trump visited France this July, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/13\/world\/europe\/trump-france-brigitte-macron.html?_r=0\">President Trump\u2019s first action<\/a> was to look First Lady of France Brigitte Macron up and down and pronounce her to be \u201cfit.\u201d Trump said to her, \u201cYou\u2019re in such good shape.\u201d He then turned to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and said, \u201cShe\u2019s in such good physical shape. Beautiful.\u201d Clearly uncomfortable, Brigitte Macron grabbed Melania\u2019s arm and stepped back away from Trump. This incident was broadcast live around the world.\nWhat message does it send when the American President treats the First Lady of France like a sex object?\nThis public example of sexist behavior\u2014disrespectful treatment of women as sex objects\u2014is what keeps the \u201cbro culture\u201d in place in the workplace and in society. Author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/jerks-and-the-start-ups-they-ruin.html\">Dan Lyons<\/a> of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, writing about the cultures of many technology startup companies, explains that, \u201cBro cos. become corporate frat houses, where employees are chosen like pledges, based on \u2018culture fit.\u2019 Women get hired, but they rarely get promoted and sometimes complain of being harassed. Minorities and older workers are excluded.\u201d Author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bro-culture-harassment-discrimination-uber-business-2017-6\/#do-not-use-the-stairwells-to-smoke-drink-eat-or-have-sex-1\">\u00c1ine Cain<\/a> of <em>Business Insider<\/em> agrees that \u201cthe resulting \u2018bro culture\u2019 tends to prioritize young men over all other employees, creating an environment that\u2019s ripe for toxic behaviors like excessive partying and systemic harassment of colleagues.\u201d Bro culture exists in all sectors and industries in the United States, though, not just in tech startups. In another article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/how-wall-street-bro-talk-keeps-women-down.html?_r=0\">Sam Polk<\/a> of the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0 describes the bro culture in Wall Street firms that results in women being overlooked for a promotion, being ridiculed or ignored in meetings, and generally being treated disrespectfully.\nThere is a close connection between all of Trump\u2019s anti-woman actions:\n\n\n<ul>\n \t\n\n<li>His public displays of disrespect for women<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>His proud comments about sexually assaulting women in the <em>Access Hollywood<\/em> tape<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>His assault on women\u2019s reproductive rights<\/li>\n\n\n \t\n\n<li>His executive orders to strip women, especially poor women, of access to health care by attempting to defund Planned Parenthood and weaken Title X<\/li>\n\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/14\/opinion\/donald-trump-women-reproductive-rights.html\">Michelle Goldberg<\/a> of the <em>New York Times<\/em> writes, \u201cMr. Trump doesn\u2019t care about women\u2019s health or rights.\u201d I agree. I would add that he does not respect women. Period.\nAs a role model to young men about how to treat women, he is a disaster. As a role model to all men about how to treat women, he is a disaster. We must all speak out, women and our male allies, to provide a different example and to challenge this one.\n&nbsp;\nPhoto courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/35530513520\/\">The White House<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/mark\/1.0\/\">Public domain<\/a>]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,147,206,229,396,457,496,523,612],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-anti-women","tag-donald-trump","tag-female-politicians","tag-gender-dynamics","tag-misogyny","tag-politics","tag-respect","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}