In a world where women and girls constitute a significant 49.7% of the global population, their presence is paradoxically overshadowed in discussions on demographics, often leading to the violation.
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When’s the last time you played a card game? Did you notice anything unusual with your card deck? Indy Mellink, from the Netherlands, certainly thought that something was strange. Last summer, the 23-year-old card fan realized that traditional playing cards were, in her opinion, sexist and racist, so she created a new deck of cards that would be fully inclusive by completely removing “gender hierarchy and race differences” altogether.
Indy, spurred on by her supportive dad, founded ‘GSB Playing Cards’ where, instead of Kings, Queens, and Jacks, the cards feature Gold, Silver, and Bronze. She had a lot of time on her hands because of the Covid-19 lockdown, so she put her graphic design skills to use.
prevention sites. as you said, vermont is a progressive state in a lot of ways. are you finding a lot of support for these ideas? yes, but i want to point out some of those issues i don t know why we call them progressive. you know, to expect everybody to have health care and have a living wage, that seems like i m canadian. i think of these as normal platforms, not progressive. there you go. i found something interesting despite the fact that you said you were not aiming to make history, you did say that your experience has made you more sensitive to marginalized people and marginalized communities, has really informed the way you would think about how you would govern. yes. i will tell you when i after i transitioned, you know, it s one thing to learn to know the gender hierarchy. it s another to experience it. and i will tell you just one
the hands of those who have technological power, women not having it makes me very nervous. absolutely. i think that this is a big problem in silicon valley that we have an underrepresentation of women. only 5% of start-ups are funned in silicon valley are those funded by women. and across the board you see that 60% of college graduates and women, only 20% of the computer science graduates are women. so it s a question about supply and demand, but this is a great opportunity for us. this is a leading sector of the 21st century where we have to get more women involved in the sector and have got to encourage them culturally in silicon valley. we have to fund them, mentor them and provide them a better working environment. in part, if technology is meant to solve problems, then the things people think of as problems are, in part, related to where they are in the gender hierarchy or the class hierarchy. it was interesting to me in your book that this is on the cutting