BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

This study doesn't surprise me at all. There are far too many smart, independent, college-educated women in the workforce and public life these days for this not to be the case. Bullies always threaten what scares them. Usually its someone who is more competent, perhaps perceived as being smarter, and even people whistleblowers. And when you can't find some character flaw to pick on - pick on their gender. Bullies also hate truth tellers. Truth tellers must be eliminated, defamed and silenced at all cost! When I was working I had this happen to me more times than I could count. I would end up working for someone (sometimes another woman) when it became apparent they weren't as intelligent or intuitive as me. And if I tried to better my position, they'd pick on me as a woman. I've been called a lesbian, a castrator, a man-hater, overwrought female, and asked if I 'had PMS' because of a management decision someone else didn't agree with. I am going...

FEMALE CANTORS SEEK RECOGNITIO N This article below ties in very nice with something my blogger friend Lemon posted about on her blog , the full article which can be found here . Food for thought. A lot of thought. Women's voice is indecent - or is it? Female cantors slowly emerging as national-religious sector's next big trend, but face criticism, accusations of indecency by Smadar Shir In recent years, the world of national-religious women has been slowly but surely revolutionized. It started with female litigators who appear before rabbinical courts, which was unheard of just a decade ago, and continued with women attending Torah and Gemara classes in yeshivot, which produced women scholars who are already viewed as halachic rulers. The next big trend, though still evolving in secret, is women cantors. The odds are against them. Since early childhood, they have been told that hearing a woman sing is indecent. If they were men, their destiny would have been different, but t...