{"id":82,"date":"2016-03-29T17:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/?p=82"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:41:44","slug":"speaking-up-for-gender-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/2016\/03\/29\/speaking-up-for-gender-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking up for gender equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" style=\"width: 767px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Richelle Benoit is a Carleton Alumni &amp; Social Media Manager at a real estate investment trust company.\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/richelle-e1459270944403.jpg 1071w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richelle Benoit is a Carleton Alumni &amp; Social Media Manager at a real estate investment trust company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Richelle Benoit is a feminist who was inspired by the teachings about feminism and gender equality after taking a Women\u2019s Studies course in her first year of studies at Carleton University. \u201cI realized that there was this whole new science to looking at the world that then opened my mind to a lot of new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although a lot of people might disagree, Benoit said she believes that it is important to act on feminist instincts in all aspects of life. \u201cFeminism means standing up for yourself and for gender equality in all the little daily minutia. Even in the work force you\u2019ll see people say stuff and you\u2019ll think \u2018hey that doesn\u2019t feel right\u2019. It\u2019s important to speak your mind in a non-combative way. Always do it every single day, a million times. Not just doing it at school and then going to work and not saying anything. Not everyone went to school for the certain topics that you did. It\u2019s important to not just be silent and to keep people educated when you feel like they have an open ear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the urge to fight for gender equality, Richelle Benoit attended the Art &amp; Feminism Wikipedia-Edit-A-Thon; an international event aiming to improve the coverage of female artists, encourage female editorship and remove negative-based language in Wikipedia articles. \u201cI\u2019m going to start looking into Wikipedia pages that are about sexuality and the older ages. I\u2019m going to expand on them by taking the negative biased language away that is used regarding older people and their sexuality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make a resounding impact to problems regarding inequality, Benoit believes that there needs to be a strong sense of community behind that cause. \u201cOne person can\u2019t drive a whole movement. It\u2019s the community events like this Edit-A-Thon that will really bring about change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richelle Benoit is a feminist who was inspired by the teachings about feminism and gender equality after taking a Women\u2019s Studies course in her first year of studies at Carleton University. \u201cI realized that there was this whole new science to looking at the world that then opened my mind to a lot of new&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/2016\/03\/29\/speaking-up-for-gender-equality\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,7,2,4,5,6],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-ottawa","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/hocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}