Sexism

The Important Career Lesson We Can Learn From Peggy Olson

Forbes Woman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Gender Gap, Wage Gap, Women in Business, Earning Potential, Earning Money, Sexism, Women News

Men do a lot things we don’t that contribute to the persistent 20-30% wage gap. Mad Men, that great reminder to the nation of life before femini...

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The Gender Paradox In India

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: India, Video, The Invisible Dog, Art Meets Science, Prune Nourry, Sexism, Holy River, Brooklyn Art, Gender Selection, Performance Art, Female Artists, Slideexpand, Feminism, India Gender Selection, Arts News

Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist who finds pleasure in contradiction, whether in bioethics, mythology or even artistic materials. Although ...

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"Men's Fiction" vs. "Mommy Porn"

Ester Bloom | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Esquire Magazine, Social Media, Books, Literary Fiction, Literary Prizes, Fiction, Sexism, Masculinity, Vida, Culture, Books News

Gender distinctions in literature are arbitrary and often ass-backwards. Can women, for example, write "men's fiction"? Why not?

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Why Does The Media Care About Hilary's Glasses?

Felice Shapiro | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women's News, Women's Issues, Women in Media, Photoshopping, Sexism, Hilary Clinton Style, Hilary Clinton, Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe, Hilary Clinton Glasses, Feminism, Fifty News

It's important for us to go public with our outrage when women are not appropriately recognized for our accomplishments. Let's make it loud and clear that attempting to sideline a woman with superficial comments about her hair and her style won't work.

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WATCH: The Best Of Colbert's War For Women

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Video, Womens Rights, Ann Romney, War on Women, Rush Limbaugh, Colbert War for Women, Funny Videos, Sexism, Birth Control, War for Women, Colbert Report, Slideexpand, Feminism, Colbert, Comedy News

The so-called "War On Women" has been elevated to the forefront of national discourse after continuing disputes over stay-at-home moms, birth control ...

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Finding Solutions to the Challenges Facing Young Women Today

Jennifer Siebel Newsom | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Gender Equality, Depression, Female Self-Esteem, Self-Esteem, Sexism, Childhood Obesity, Body Image, Girls and Body Image, Women and Body Image, Women's Empowerment, San Francisco News

If we really want to see a better tomorrow for our girls, we must include them in the national debates around gender equality today.

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Of Mother's Day And Misogyny

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women, Misogny, Respect for Women, Respecting Women, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, Sexism, Songs for a New Depression, Misogynistic Men, Gay Voices News

An event recently occurred that I've yet to shake. Someone insinuated that I hate women, and although I'd never remotely thought that to be the case, as we approach Mother's Day I ironically find myself pondering how I feel about the opposite sex.

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Why Female Actors Are Flocking To YouTube

BuzzFeed | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Wigs, Julia Stiles, America Ferrera, Sexism, Jennifer Garner, Youtube, Female Characters, Dakota Fanning, Hollywood, Women News

Last week YouTube announced a new channel called Wigs that will feature short scripted dramas about strong female characters -played by stars like Jen...

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking

Ilana Ross | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Women, Hillary Clinton, Kesha, Speech, Nba, Vocal Fry, Sexism, Cnbc, Wall Street, Teens, Men, Boys, Adults, College News

The New York Times noted that a current linguistic trend called "vocal fry" is just one in a long line of largely female speech patterns that are seen often seen as a sign of stupidity. Young women who used vocal fry were being dismissed as insecure, naive, and dumb.

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Sexist Twitter Rant Lands Sports Reporter In Hot Water

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Chicago White Sox, Joe Cowley, Joe Cowley Sexist, Joe Cowley Sexist Tweets, Joe Cowley Deleted Twitter, Joe Cowley Twitter, Sexism, Chicago News

The Twitter account of a Chicago Sun-Times sports writer vanished Monday, after some sexist comments landed him in hot water. Joe Cowley, who cove...

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When in Boystown: Don't Create Racism, Create Change

Nico Lang | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Take Back Boystown, Boystown, Jezebel, Boystown Crime, LGBT Community, Center on Halsted, Slut-Shaming, Sexism, Classism, Marginalization, War on Women, Transgender, Lakeview, Safe Space, Real Housewives, Chicago Boys Town, Boystown Chicago, Boystown Inequality, Chicago News

It's been almost a year since Take Back Boystown took off, and all of us still have so much work to do to build a better community. We need to stand together, or we need to stop calling ourselves a community.

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Why Can't Jessie J Be Bi?

Amy Andre | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Pop Music, The Voice, Celebrity Rumors, Jessie J, Lgbt Celebrities, Lesbian, Bisexual, Sexism, Homophobia, Singer, Biphobia, Biography, Celebrity News

Singer Jessie J is in the news because of her sexuality again. But this time, it's not because of something the bi artist has done. It's because of something an unofficial biographer says she hasn't done. And that thing is: have sex with men.

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The Real War On Women

Foreign Policy | Mona Eltahawy | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Alifa Rifaat, Arab Spring, War on Women, Gender Discrimination, Middle East, Sexism, Discrimination, Global Gender Gap Report, World News

In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with he...

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The Right Way to be a Mother

Joyce McFadden | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Msnbc, Cnn, Motherhood, Mommy Wars, Sexism, The View, Anne Romney, Breastfeedingley, Feminism, Nikki Haley, Parents News

None of us can fully escape our fear of judgment, or our inclinations to judge others. But we could be more generous with ourselves and each other and do it less often.

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The Hunger Games & the Race Issue

Leslie Reece Schichtel | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Suzanne Collins, Social Media, Katniss Everdeen, Hunger Games Movie, Sexism, 2008 Presidential Race, Racism, Amandla Sternberg, Racism in Politics, The Hunger Games, Movies, Suzanne Collins the Hunger Games, Racist Hunger Games Tweets, Entertainment News

Americans seem to be still hung up on the idea that skin color, and even gender, is a better way to define someone, rather than defining them by their achievements, potential, intelligence or moral character

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Hollywood's Female Trouble: Part 1, The Writers

Xaque Gruber | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Women, Television, Women's Issues, Hot in Cleveland, 50 Shades of Grey, Sexism, Kristin Wiig, Shonda Rhimes, Grey's Anatomy, Mad Men, The Killing, Tina Fey, Film, Writers Guild of America, Video, Entertainment News

A female friend recently said to me, "Sexism in the entertainment industry is so prevalent that most people are blind to it, and barely notice it anymore." This friend has been a Hollywood insider for decades, and Emmy nominated for her writing -- twice.

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Dear Men: Shut Up About Women

Carol Hartsell | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Two and a Half Men, Lee Aronsohn, Are Women Funny, Sexism, Whitney, 2 Broke Girls, Women Funny, Women Are Funny, Feminism, Comedy News

Here's a tiny piece of unsolicited advice: if you are a man and someone, especially a journalist, asks you if you think women are funny, SAY NOTHING. It is a trap. Walk away. If only someone had said this to "Two & A Half Men" co-creator Lee Aronsohn.

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What's Wrong With Gay Rights? Dean Spade Addresses The Problem In 'Normal Life'

Emerson Whitney | Posted 05.28.2012

Normal Life is an essential, comprehensive work for trans activists. And for those outside the gender nonconforming community, Spade's work can be viewed as trans-law case study of a burgeoning social justice movement that has yet to take on the compromising hues of assimilation.

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What Megan From 'Mad Men' Tells Us About Being 'Wife Material

Salon | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Working Women, Women in the Workplace, Wife Material, Wives, Gender Politics, Sexism, Women News

During a long train ride with an acquaintance, my female friend was recently paid the ultimate compliment by a friend. Comparing her to a woman he was...

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Lessons We Learned From Mad Men

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Worklife Balance, Workplace | Tagged David Weigand, Gender Roles, New Male Mystique, Stephanie Coontz, Sexism, Tv, Work-Life Balance, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find a Career -- and Life -- That Works for You, The Great Gatsby, Feminism, Facebook, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Women News

Mad Men doesn't pretend that these "career girls" are empowered: These gals are as hemmed in by the intractability of the system as they are by their rigid underwear.

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Constructive Conversations on Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and the -isms of Our Day

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Politics, White Privelege, Trayvon Martin, Lgbtq, illdoctrine.com, Sexism, Jay Smooth, Racism, George Zimmerman, Justice, Race, Politics News

Over the past week the airwaves have been filled with reporting, commentary and rants about the Florida shooting. This has again made clear that issues of race are not only bubbling under the surface of our societal discourse, but they are spilling over into our politics.

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What 'Mad Men' Gets Right About 1960s Women

The Daily Beast | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Women in Mad Men, Women in the Workplace, Gender Stratification, Gender Discrimination, 1960's Office Culture, Sexism, Women News

Did they really smoke that much? A Newsweek secretary-turned-Washington correspondent says the on-screen sexism, drinking, and smoking capture the off...

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Wall Street Has The Worst Pay Equality In America

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Women, Financial Industry, Gender Gap, Video, Earning Gap, Financial Services, Financial Sector, Wall Street, Gender Wage Gap, Sexism, Gender Pay Gap, Big Banks, Business News

Wall Street is one place where it pays to be a guy. For people in financial-sector jobs -- such as insurance agents, security sales agents, financi...

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The Resignation Of Eve

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women, Church, Sexism, Women's Empowerment, Religion and Gender, Women in Religion, Religion News

There is a natural, and deliberate movement by women of the church to challenge the system of sexism and collectively demand that their gifts not be ignored any longer.

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Angst Over Extinction

Arthur Goldwag | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: John Birch Society, Ronald Reagan, Middle East, Sexism, Racism, Sovereignty, Prejudice, Republicans, Hatred, Partisanship, Politics News

Totalizing, programmatic hatreds are what Freud would have called thanatopsic obssessions -- they are driven by a fear of one's own extinction.

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