Does Steemit Do The Most to Support Gender Equality?

in #steemit7 years ago

Steemit offers to help erase the boundaries between men and women by providing true equality in what can be shared by a man and a women combined with a transparent system for earning income. Today making money and treatment of bodies are two of the biggest inequalities faced by men and women. The great news is that advancements for either sex can help all of us. Here are the key points summarized and explained in more detail below!

  • The most popular websites in the world such as Facebook and YouTube do not allow women to fairly share their bodies the same as men. On Facebook or YouTube, an women could be banned for posting a picture with no shirt on while a man does not have this limitation. While at first this might look like a harmless detail or discrimination against women, ask "What would we need to secretly believe to allow this?" and a more grim picture emerges. To believe it is necessary to hide the nipples of a woman, we would need to believe that men are such animals that seeing the nipple of a woman might cause them to rape because this fear makes the unfair treatment seem reasonable. Freedom from this is good for all of us because we each get to step out of our gender prisons and into a real life. While Twitter has already taken the same step as Steemit to allow women to share equally with men, Twitter lacks income as explained next!
  • Earning income tends to be much easier for men even when doing the same work because our gender prisons dictate the primary value for a man is in what he earns from work while for a woman's primary value comes from what her body can do and her role in the family. Steemit finally truly makes it just as easy for women to earn income as men because no outside systems are necessary to receive rewards from a post. By comparison, building a following on Facebook requires converting that following to income outside of Facebook usually which tends to be easier generally for men because of our existing social structure. As long as it is easier for men to earn income, not only are women more limited in their options but so are men.

  • Would you watch more in the original video or continue reading the post below because I will continue focusing on the amazing opportunities Steemit offers for women especially while understanding that the better women have it, the better men do as well even if the effects are only indirect?

    Most Empowering Social Media for Women? Steemit!


    On Steemit.com, women truly have equal rights to share.

    On other social media networks, as a man, I can post a picture of myself with no shirt on and I'm not looking at any consequences, if a woman posts a picture without any shirt on, she is looking at getting banned from the website.

    On the most fundamental level that is a very simple way that current social media networks do not give equal rights to women. I'm grateful that Steemit does, because equal rights for women is good for me.

    Steemit.com also is offering a lot more freedom for women especially, to share the truth. On social media, often, it's very challenging to share some of the most personal, shameful things and Steemit is providing an outstanding platform to do that.

    Women on social media also tend to be way undervalued because they contribute a great deal of engagement in sharing, and on Facebook getting a hundred likes doesn't give you anything. On Steemit, upvotes equal earnings, this gives the ability for anyone to post and earn money.

    Perfect for singles and moms


    This is really good for women because of a lot of the biases in our existing system, and it is perfect for single women and for moms, especially.

    Single women often put a lot of effort into social media trying to share photos of themselves, attract a man and doing that on Steemit actually puts you in a really good position to earn money for doing it. Whereas just posting photos on Facebook in your bathing suit or what you're doing every day doesn't earn any money, it just gets likes, and maybe will help attract a man or a woman, but more than often, it's just a lot of time and energy for no return.

    That same time and energy on Steemit can be worth a lot of money. For moms like my wife who is freelancing online, this gives an easy place to start and allows for just honestly sharing the journey of being a mom and makes it easy to actually earn some income. Right now it's really hard to just go start a mom blog and to talk about your life, and it makes it a lot easier on Steemit.

    Perfect for photos travel


    I'm really excited about this, because it's also perfect for sharing photos and for traveling.

    If you want to make a travel blog, Steemit is an outstanding place for it. I'll show you an example of a girl who’s made an amazing travel blog on Steemit, who started with no following outside of Steemit.

    If you just want to share photos of your life, of the food you're eating, the recipes you're cooking or of the bikes you're riding, the sports you're playing, whatever it is, Steemit provides a place to earn some money for doing that. A place where you're not just wasting your time essentially posting photos to your friends, taking time you could be earning money with, instead, it puts hobbies together really well.

    Perfect for hobbies blogs


    It allows you to take your hobbies and monetize them, which with how men derive our egos so much from work, leaves women in a position that doing hobbies ends up becoming a choice between, do I want to do a hobby or do I want to have some time to work and make money?

    Whereas, for men, we usually have time to work and do hobbies, and this gives women a chance to stop having to choose between doing work and getting to have some hobbies.

    Hobbies like cooking or whatever your hobbies are, there are lots of cooking blogs that I'm about to show you on Steemit. The hobbies you normally do and are excited about can actually easily be monetized on Steemit. If you want to do a blog, there are huge opportunities, especially for women, to do a great blog on Steemit. Whereas, doing it outside of Steemit tends to be very difficult to make any money. Steemit's a great place for tutorials and tip videos.

    I see a lot of women doing a great job with tutorial and tip videos. They are the main things I do and the nice thing is that Steemit provides a good way to monetize that. I've read tons of blogs, especially written by women of tips and tutorial videos, and it's really hard to make money off those. Steemit makes it a lot easier for me and everyone else.

    Perfect for teachers and students


    It is perfect for teachers and students if you're in school because it's really hard to earn money especially if you are feeling the pressure to participate in all these other parts of life like family or just to get good grades and to advance.

    As a teacher or student, Steemit's a really good opportunity to just share some of what you're doing in life. There’s not a lot of students and teachers I've seen on Steemit yet, but the more that we keep growing Steemit the better is the opportunity right now for students and teachers to start sharing their journeys on Steemit.

    I guess I'm kind of a teacher. 😁

    Thank you for reading with me!


    If you enjoyed reading this post, would you please upvote it and read the next one because if you are like me every upvote feels good and I will be sharing the list of my favorite women on Steemit next?

    Love,

    Jerry Banfield

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    "By comparison, building a following on Facebook requires converting that following to income outside of Facebook usually which tends to be easier generally for men because of our existing social structure."

    I would love to see your data for this. The exact opposite seems true. Booty pics can get you hundreds of thousands of followers. There are women who literally do nothing but vacation and post ass-shots on social media, and they manage to fund their lifestyle this way. They don't actually have any marketable skills.

    I've yet to see a single man succeed this way.

    PS - I hope you had a chance to look at part 3 of my tax posts, where I broke down your tax liability on your large Facebook ad post.

    Yes while it is easy for some to build a following on Facebook and Instagram, the key is that to actually make money off of that following is not so easy and brings in a lot of gender discrimination. With 2 million likes on Facebook, converting those to dollars is not easy. Meanwhile 8,000 followers on Steemit equals around $100 a post!

    There's no doubt that Steemit's easy monetization for people's creative work is one of its great strengths.

    Just commented on your new tax post now! Great series and in depth analysis regardless of whether I agree with it or not I know others are enjoying it a lot!

    There are tons of male models on Instagram who do the exact same thing as the women you're talking about. lol

    Which do you think there are more of? Who do you think makes vastly more money?

    We both know the answer.

    Social media is vastly more used by, and vastly more profitable for, women, all else equal. This is obvious to all who would look.

    I'm sure if i were to post on my Vacations, I wouldn't get much upvotes as the ladies do. lol
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    @paso exactly women worth more on this platform LOL

    lol same here!

    I just had to upvote!! Love it

    I guess i have a talent ...my sense of humour :) thanks everyone for the upvote. Here is mine :)

    You've got my upvote to help combat this gender inequality!

    Nice one Paco! :-)

    BOSS right there hahaha

    Always interesting to see your different perspectives on things.....

    nice post @jerrybanfiel
    i have something for you please check it and tell me what do you think
    https://steemit.com/funny/@innoserv/i-bet-you-guys

    Great post on an issue that doesn't get talked about nearly enough. Nice work @jerrybanfield!

    Great topic choice, interesting read.

    A nice balance for the posts I keep coming across that are borderline shaming the lady dolphins and whales on here by implying that we women have it easier because all we really have to do is show pictures of our boobs and we'll automatically be successful (gag relfex)

    I super appreciate a forum where if a lady (or gentleman) decides to share themself in whatever way they desire, as long as no one is harmed, there is a space for the content.

    Censorship sucks, and it is odd and awkward mosts places in the world that I can't be topless when I want to be, for my own comfort, because someone else finds the presence of my nipples vulgar and I am forced to pandor to them and the prudence society mandates. As if we don't all come stock with nipples. As if the existence of my nipples would surprise anyone.

    @stirling thank you for sharing your thoughts here after reading because it is awkward for me as a man to even talk about these things for feeling like I do not really understand because I am not a woman! With your response, I feel the goal was achieved of the post!

    Oh good! :)

    I honestly think women are somewhat more valued here on the platform than make ostrich pants.
    But at the end of the day we are here to deliver good quality content so if it's quality it will do good despite what gender post

    "make ostrich pants."?

    I would say attractive people are more valued regardless of gender, although that could also mean a bias in value towards women, its hard to know with out assuming but i would guess more people on Steem have a sexual preference for women.

    I dont think its a simple issue where people have just decided to value women slightly more in general.

    Steemit is a great opportunity but i think it is only for whales. I shared a very informative post few days back and there were only 3 views. The post was really awesome and I have lost my motivation after getting no response from that.

    That's because you have no followers. You should not spend lots of time creating quality content with no followers. Generate high quality comments on POPULAR articles right when they go up, don't start slaving at authoring until you have a couple hundred at least.

    It takes time to build a following and get noticed. Be patient and maybe make a point to post 1 thing per day and go comment on other people's posts too! I've put 2 hours into a post before and it earned less than a dollar but I enjoyed creating the content so that's what mattered to me.

    There's definitely a learning curve here and I'm still pretty new to the site so I have a lot to learn. Try to Read posts from whales and dolphins that are directed at new people and learn about proper steemit etiquette too. That's what I'm doing.

    Listening to me may be like the blind leading the blind but I have had some posts earn a good amount in my first week and I'm very happy about it. Go into this with the mindset that you're here to have fun, learn, meet interesting people, and share your experiences. The money will come eventually.

    Good luck to you!

    Life tends to work the same way where well rounded investments tend to pay off the most. Would you continue sharing your best posts on my upvotable posts like this on yesterday https://steemit.com/steemit/@jerrybanfield/does-steemit-do-the-most-to-support-gender-equality because this is where I upvote and follow new authors?

    Honestly after earning as much as $1,000 a day on Steemit barely making $100 a post I feel the same way which is what makes Steemit a great opportunity for those that stay through the downtimes. If the price went down 10 times more like it was in the past I would be lucky to get $10 a post even with a $40,000+ investment. Persistence on Steemit pays the most and yes it is hard to get started without a following somewhere else. That said, it is nearly impossible to get started and make any money at all anywhere else!

    Don't give up! It's always hard at the beggining but it will pass :)

    I hear ya...hang in there, anyone can potentially become a whale if they put in the time and effort. Seems the general consensus is to start off making as many comments (as long as they are thoughtful) as possible until you have enough of a network built to appreciate your posts. We just discussed this here: https://steemit.com/help/@jobsande/best-steemit-newbie-strategy-posting-vs-commenting

    Give it another month at least, I say. Comment on other peoples' posts instead of posting. Get the feel of it. Then post. Best of luck - we're in the same boat (or net :-)).

    You're SO right. So called hobbies can become very profitable opportunities. Another reason why I love steemit!

    Thanks for sharing, Jerry.

    You're welcome!

    Good Stuff as always Jerry. Steemit is the perfect platform for the self employed

    @eastcoastcrypto Steemit is only good if you can gain massive popularity like if you have 15k to 30k followers and you upload 2-3 articles a day you can make alot of money say you get like 120$ per you can make 200-300$ a day which is like 50k a year . but if you have 20 followers like me you wont make alot of money so i agree steemit is a great platform for self employed people, if they can gain or move from a different platform where they already have a large following. so @jerrybanfield is going to make quite alot of money as he has a large following (Nice article though jerry :) )

    @Jackfitton, I understand your dilemma....this is why we started a group for early steemers to work together and help each other build. there are many such groups.

    Jack you are right that a sizable following is needed today to make a full time income on Steemit, with the growth of the platform the level of following required should continue to drop as the price of Steem goes up while the part time income potential today is the best chance many people in the world have to earn some extra income out of writing a blog. Steemit certainly is not fixing all the income disparity of the world overnight but it does offer ten times better potential than nearly anything else I have seen in twenty years of working online!

    Heard you mention that in one of your videos, and actually you @jerrybanfield are the reason I finally decided to jump into Steemit! I was a bit surprised to learn you had such success on Steemit fairly quick, but assumed that's because you already had a strong network before you arrived here. That, plus coming in with a bunch of Steem power helps too. Not saying you don't deserve every penny you earn, because I can see you give 110% to consistently put out awesome content 😄 Trying to follow in your footsteps here, but will definitely be taking things slower. It's ok though, I'm here like you are for the long term!

    Our rights really depends on the network. Steem is decentralised but that doesn't mean there are no rules. The rules are just made by everybody as individuals, so there is still a lot of flagging as a means of punishment for posting photos of bare chested women for example. They are often required to tag NSFW if they want to avoid being flagged.

    Certainly anonymity helps people to earn more in areas where they may be talking within and industry dominated by the opposite where people are more likely to listen to for example a man speak on the topic. Similarly for men, who would not get as much attention within female dominated industry, if they remain anonymous they can be considered a person like anybody else but if they choose to disclose their sex then it really depends on the network and the semi-subconscious prejudice of some people within the network.

    I completely agree with you @beanz. Steemit indeed gave us freedom but not for doing illegal and immoral things. Even plaigairism is strictly prohibited, I have even encountered flagging for just writing a simple quote from somewhere. So yeah, it gives us freedom but with a choice, to be good and legal.
    Anonymity exist for serving a purpose. The purpose of freedom in a dominated society. I am highly impressed and motvated by your answer on anonymity. It's actaully very point to point. You clearly linked anonymity with freedom in dominated society. Many people find this anonymity a taboo, but the reality is opposite or may be it's just the matter of perspective. Your perspective is very good on this :)

    @beanz you are right it is not a perfect system here and I think it is 10 times better than what is currently available to most in terms of fairness and opportunity! The great part is that we can easily agree to stop requiring women to tag NSFW on posts with a bare chest to end even that whereas getting that done on Twitter would take a mountain to move. My friend @wunderwoff posted full nude pictures and I helped him learn about the NSFW tag after seeing him naked for the first time after knowing him for eight years with no warning!

    LOL I bet that was a fun little shock haha. Aww but I see no need to tag with NSFW unless there is something pornographic within the text / image / video. I would never consider the naked body to be pornographic. If people were used to seeing people naked for example, then nobody would flinch just because they saw their parents naked body. Whereas, no matter how much "porn" you watch, it will never feel OK to see ..... well .. that LOL.