Sexism

TV Review: The Good Wife

Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


Catie Lazarus

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

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

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business


Vivian Norris de Montaigu

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.

Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books


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

Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

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

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

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media


Jesse Kornbluth

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.

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

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living


BJ Gallagher

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.

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

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media


Joyce McFadden

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.

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

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Dawn Teo

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.

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

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living


Robert Fuller

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

Why Do We Want to Be Famous?

Robert Fuller | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living


Robert Fuller

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.

Roman Polanski and the Distorted Media Hype

Janet Turley | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media


Janet Turley

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.

Genius and Young Flesh

Nina Burleigh | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment


Nina Burleigh

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.

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

Jane Shure | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living


Jane Shure

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."

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

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living


Joyce McFadden

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

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

The Independent | By Robert Verkaik | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


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

After Semenya: Tracking Male and Female, Injury and Insult

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment


Philip N. Cohen

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

"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Norm Stamper

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?

Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism

Robert Fuller | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics


Robert Fuller

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.

The SELF You Never Were

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Joyce McFadden

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.

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

Keli Goff | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics


Keli Goff

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.

Mad Men Season 3: Inside Out

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Matlack

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.

Go Ahead, Let Outrage Start the Much Needed Gender Conversation

Andrea Learned | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business


Andrea Learned

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.

Why We Love Mad Men

Victoria Namkung | Posted 09.03.2009 | Home


Victoria Namkung

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.

Gloria Steinem: The Iconic Feminist Speaks to Our Generation

Julie Zeilinger | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living


Julie Zeilinger

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.

Different Friendship Styles For Boys And Girls: Study

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


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...