Saturday, October 25, 2008

www.i-women.org

For this post we are asked to find a relevant website to our topic. For my website I chose www.i-women.org. This website is very relevant to the topic that I discuss. They deal with women in emergency services and touch on important topics in regards to women in the emergency services field of work.
The website covers major issues surrounding women in the fire department among other things. Some of the issues they talk about are the barriers that women face in this field. Their goal is the progress of women in these services and to see them treated like they should be; as equals. Their website is very informative and always backed with accurate percentages.
A couple of entries that this website has are the issues icon. If you click on this link you are taken to a page those talks about all of the issues that are important to women in the fire services. Talking everywhere from the dangers that women face, institutional barriers, and specific court cases that show progression for women in the workplace are all topics within the site. For example, one of the cases they showed was about a Los Angeles woman who sued the department she worked for because of harassment. She ended up winning the case and showed that women could be heard and should stand up for themselves.
All in all I support this website because it is very informative and gives me a better look at women in the fire fighting career. I get a good amount of my information from this sight and hopefully others will as well, so we can put an end to this discrimination.

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