What Do Women Really Experience When Browsing and Purchasing a Car? Women-Drivers.com Provides Latest National Research (abbreviated version)

“I went with my brother, and I feel that the salesperson was talking more to him than me. He talked to me about cup holders, etc. but not about the engine.”

Surely, women have not only gained the right to vote and the security to raise their voice, but...yes, I do believe they've figured out how to ask questions.

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In other words, "we connect you to our endorsers." or "we don't, ourselves, perpetuate structural violence against women."

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2 (IPS) - Even as U.N. peacekeeping operations in the world’s battle zones continue to expand, women soldiers, police and civilian support staff remain a small minority – something that sorely needs to change, U.N. officials say.

Today, there are more than 113,000 peacekeepers, including 90,000 military and police personnel, serving in 18 U.N. operations in four continents.

But women make up only eight percent of the U.N. police force and about two percent of the soldiers provided by member states. The ratio of women deployed as civilians in peacekeeping operations is higher, at 30 percent, but still not equally representative.
"We help women of these nations to understand and see that they have a voice and can be part of the peacekeeping process themselves, and that is what the U.N. is trying to promote."

The subverted message here is that before women were in the army, and really, until there are balanced numbers, which shouldn't be necessary, since we are all human and capable of peacekeeping if we are working for an ideal of humanity at ease and writ large across the world...

It also could be suggesting that without women present, men became "the voice that silences (or silenced) women".

These scenarios can only perpetuate structural violence against women, and this is not the way to frame this issue.

What is the pow-her of women at dealerships?
Women buy 54% of new cars in the United States, however they influence up to 80% of the purchases. We request 65% of the mechanical service work done at dealerships; all of this amounts to $200 billion dollars worth of purchasing pow-her.

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Some would call this pandering

Opening Soon: Turkish Snack Bar

Laurence Aëgerter has been living and working in Amsterdam for 15 years. Her contribution to the Red A.I.R Artists in Residency project has been an ongoing exhibition that has been featuring installments that have been undergoing changes in the theme of “Opening Soon/Opening Now,” which is the title of her exhibition space.

With this exhibition, the artist invites the public into the space that she has been given for the duration of the project. Concurrently, she uses this space as the framing for diverse performances and public events that she has and will continue to hold sporadically over the next few months, directing her focus towards attracting different groups of the public, who she welcomes into this exploratory productive and constructive interaction and reflection with her artistic space.

The first event that Laurence organised for her venue, the former brothel that she was allocated by the city of Amsterdam and the housing corporation De Key, was a public performance that exhibited the element of “Opening Soon” for the public. A cleaning of the space was displayed in the form of a public performance that the artist had arranged with professional cleaners, who became the actors on the stage. While the artist herself explained that the event was staged with incomplete awareness of her own intentions for organising this first event for the space, she was fully cognisant of the fact that this performance would stir diverse emotions from those who witnessed the professional cleaning team in action on her performance space as well as along the streets, the large window and building façade.

As I entered the second installment of the project, Opening Soon/Opening Now, I found that this exhibition was a component of the “Opening Now” part of her program. In the public library, I had the opportunity to witness Laurence transform the former brothel into a public space that would serve the public in another way, and I had the chance to see and hear her reflect on the use of the space.

Laurence spoke about how the individuals who entered this space responded to her project, and I gained insight into the nature of project and how it had the potential to benefit both residents and other individuals who experienced this area. Her work also shed light on the contextual values that were accounted for in the broader picture of the transitions that were taking place in the red light district.

Opening Soon: Turkish Snack Bar...