Nonprofit Profile | The Fathers of Daughters, the Mothers of Sons
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and tomorrow is International Women’s Day. In my younger, stupider days I would have questioned why women get such special call-outs while men don’t. The answer, of course, is that such issues as pay inequity, violence against women, and the lack of women in leadership positions in business and government mean that the fairer sex is still treated without the respect it deserves. Even before I became a dad to two daughters I found this shameful, but now … well, let’s just say that Papa Bear wants his cubettes to grow up in a world where they’ll be judged by and treated according to their talents and character, not their gender.The International Museum of Women, based in San Francisco, is, in essence, a virtual museum, an organization that holds educational events and runs innovative online programming to close the gap between our brothers and sisters.
The mission of I.M.O.W. is to value the lives of women around the world.
I.M.O.W. is a groundbreaking social change museum that inspires global action, connects people across borders and transforms hearts and minds by amplifying the voices of women worldwide through global online exhibitions, history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue and build community.
We invite you to join in this innovative twenty-first century museum and invest in making the world a better place for our daughters, granddaughters and nieces as well as our sons, grandsons and nephews … .
Pretty powerful stuff, huh? I’m deeply appreciative of the organization’s inclusion of men as beneficiaries of the desired goal of equality. Once upon a time I would have laughed at any man who called himself a feminist. Now it’s a label I wear proudly.“Nonprofit Profile,” a weekly look at a nonprofit with relevance, appears Fridays at the 501(c) Files. | 501(c)
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