Sexism

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TV Review: The Good Wife

Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

The Good Wife deftly hints at how even the most well meaning of us, men and women, aren't always well doing.

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Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Microcredit, Elinor Ostrom, Workplace, Financial Services, France, Elizabeth Warren, Sexism, Obama Administration, Sheila Baer, Feminism, Mad Men, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Business News

The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Mad Men, Women, Cable, Women's Issues, Sexism, Cable Television, Gender Issues, Survey, Cable Tv, Tufts, Poll, Don Draper, Culture Change, Gender, Media News

I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...

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Maria Shriver's Report on American Women: After the Cheery Headline, Gloomy Trends

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Gloria Steinem, David Gregory, Women's Health, Jobs, Women, Maria Shriver, Sexism, Media News

Does "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything," instigated by Maria Shriver, describe a 50/50 nation? Parity between the sexes? I don't think so.

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Diversity: Why Do We Have Such A Hard Time Walking Our Talk?

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Racism, Obama, Hate Crimes, Melting Pot, Pluralism, Diversity, Sexism, Workplace Diversity, The Balanced Life, Living News

I sometimes wonder whether the diversity movement isn't just the latest manifestation of our national schizophrenia - the schism between what we believe as idealists and what we do as realists.

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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Reproductive Health, Obama, Backlash, Living News, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Media News

While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.

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Arizona Mothers Storm Kyl's Senate Office, Denounce GOP as Sexist

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sexism, Senator Jon Kyl, Sexual Harrassment, Protest, Working Mothers, Jon Kyl, Republican Party, Health Care, Politics News

Dozens of local mothers descended on the office of Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona Wednesday to denounce what they say are sexist attitudes held by Kyl and the Republican Party in general.

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How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism)

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Nobodies, Civil Rights Movement, Dignitarian, Dignity, Sexism, Racism, Women's Movement, Barbarah Ehrenreich, Rank, Somebodies, Rankism, Living News

We won't be able to confront rankism until we overcome our fear of seeming uppity by using the word in public.

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Why Do We Want to Be Famous?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Princess Di, Dignity, Dignitarian Society, Nobody, Malnutrition, Oscar, Marilyn Monroe, Fame, Malrecognition, Elvis, Sexism, Homophobia, Racism, Somebody, Rank, Rankism, Emmy, Living News

When strangers ply us with questions like "And you are?", "Who are you with?", or "Where did you go to school?" they are likely sizing up our power as belied by our affiliations.

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Roman Polanski and the Distorted Media Hype

Janet Turley | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Media Criticism, Media, Rape, Roman Polanski, Sex, Sexism, Media News

The Polanski case is not about justice -- that happened years ago. It's about not retraumatizing the survivor. The prosecution should respect her wishes to drop the case.

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Genius and Young Flesh

Nina Burleigh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Women's Rights, Politics, US Foreign Policy, Rape, Roman Polanski, Sexism, Entertainment News

Great Men - and other men - sometimes do find pliant, young flesh irresistible. Geniuses are usually forgiven for it. The arrest of Roman Polanski is a good idea, and should stand. It doesn't matter whether he is a genius.

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Women's Dislike For Michelle Obama Reveals Middle-School Mentality

Jane Shure | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Racism, Michelle Obama, Women's Issues, Sexism, Living News

I've heard so many fabulous women express being afraid to claim their smarts and talents because of fear of being deemed "uppity" or "conceited."

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Bad Mommy: The Sexism Embedded in Women's Views on Breastfeeding and Childbirth

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: New Mothers, Nursing, Newborns, Breastfeeding, Mothering, Sexism, Childbirth, Caesarean, Living News

Women shouldn't impose strictures on other women's individuality and choice when we wouldn't want that from men.

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"Lad's Culture": Report Finds Sexism In Britain's Financial Institutions

The Independent | By Robert Verkaik | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, The City, Sexism, Finance, Banks, Wall Street, Discrimination, Economy, Home News

Women working in banks and other financial institutions told the EHRC that workers who become pregnant routinely face redundancy, and that recruitment...

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After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Intersex, Olympics, Sex, Sexism, Track and Field, Caster Semenya, Heterosexism, Gender, Entertainment News

Men's sex advantage in some sports is not a sexist myth, as The Nation would have you believe.

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"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

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Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism

Robert Fuller | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobodies, Ableism, Dignitarian, Dignity, Sexism, Homophobia, Ageism, Racism, Somebodies, Rank, Rankism, Sexist, Rankist, Politics News

Whether directed at an individual or a group, rankism aims to put targets in their place and keep them weak so they will do as they're told and submit to being taken advantage of.

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The SELF You Never Were

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: The Today Show, The New Yorker, Photo Retouching, Health, Sexism, Christy Turlington, Fashion, Kelly Clarkson, Airbrushing, Lauren Collins, Feminism, Self Magazine, Lucy Danziger, Photography, Magazine Retouching, Photo-Retouching, Emme, Photoshop, Media News

SELF takes the focus off her talent by making us focus on what they see as the money shot... a version of Clarkson that doesn't exist.

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Candidate Clinton Was Not a Victim of Sexism But Secretary Clinton Is

Keli Goff | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sexism, Hillary Clinton Africa Trip, Hillary Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News

Hillary didn't "lose her cool." All I saw is a woman who has spent her entire life trying to be her own person, and despite her best efforts, is being deprived of the opportunity to do so.

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Mad Men Season 3: Inside Out

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mad Men, Matt Weiner, Manhood, Tony Soprano, Mad Men Season One, Mad Men Style, The Sopranos, Mad Men Season Two, Sexism, Mad Men Fashion, Wesleyan University, Mad Men Season Three, Poetry, Mad Men Characters, Entertainment News

The violence of Tony Soprano and swagger of Don Draper are a cover for the quiet desperation Matthew Weiner sees in all of us. They are liars who want to be what they are not.

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Go Ahead, Let Outrage Start the Much Needed Gender Conversation

Andrea Learned | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Speaker Gender, Leadership, Leader Gender, Gender Issues, Feminism, Sexism, Gender Conversation, Feminist, Gender, Business News

We don't need a fight to the death between men and women to see who is "better." Rather we need to be identifying those qualities women tend to have that make them transformational leaders.

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Why We Love Mad Men

Victoria Namkung | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Mad Men, Betty Draper, Gender Politics, Sexism, January Jones, Racism, Matthew Weiner, Birth Control, Don Draper, Fashion, Mad Men Premier August 16, Mad Men Season Premier, Sterling Cooper, Home News

While it may seem like watching Mad Men is like opening an archive to the past, I think we watch it because its themes are symbolic to the present.

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Gloria Steinem: The Iconic Feminist Speaks to Our Generation

Julie Zeilinger | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Masculinity, Femininity, Feminism, Sexism, Living News

In the end, feminism isn't about angry girls burning their bras, or about getting back at men: it's about redefining the way we see ourselves and the way we treat ourselves.

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Different Friendship Styles For Boys And Girls: Study

TIME | John Cloud Friday, Jul. 17, 2009 | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Adolescence, Sexes, Sexist, Sexism, Psychology, Best Friend, Friendship and Gender, The Inner Life, Study, Gender, Living News

Pardon the sexism, but a question: Why are girls so girly? For the better part of the past half-century, feminists, their opponents and armies of aca...

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