A Modest Proposal: The Hoe Diet
A team of economics and business professors have found a link between farming methods and gender inequality. Societies that historically relied on ploughs for farming now have lower rates of gender equality; societies that historically relied on traditional farming methods like hoe and stick digging now have a more consistent rate of women’s participation in [...]
...read moreAmaaazing new site on sex work — and campaign!
I just had the pleasure of discovering a new site on sex work: Sex Work Activists, Allies and You. I’ve consistently had trouble finding a clear online 101 on sex work activism, and the SWAAY site seems to fit the bill. It was started by Furry Girl, a super smart sex worker and writer. I [...]
...read moreNetroots Nation 2011
This is a guest post by April Lukes-Streich.
It was difficult to choose, as so many [sessions] looked interesting and were sure to be helpful, but I was extremely happy with each of the session I attended. Highlights of some of the panels I attended:
Frances Fox Piven Has a Posse
I’m enough of an Internet Personality that I’ve had some hate-tweeters and hate-bloggers in my time. Not a lot, but a few. But I’ve never gotten as many straight-up nasty responses as when I tossed off a tweet Friday night that “Frances Fox Piven is tougher than you. Fact.” See, Glenn Beck has it in [...]
...read moreWomen lead in unpaid work
Women earn less than men for similar work, and also do more work for free. Around the world, women spend more time on childcare, cooking and cleaning — all for no pay — than men. On child care in particular, mothers spend more than twice as much time per day as fathers do: 1 hour [...]
...read moreHow to split a check at a restaurant
I would agree with most of this if you took out the misogyny, and I’ll add that approximately 90 percent of the people I dine with on a regular basis are Young Attractive Women, and somehow we all manage to split the bill without issue. In fact, there is often too much money on the [...]
...read moreLove & Money
Jessica Grose has a fascinating series up on Slate about marriage and money — how couples manage their money, whether they share, and why they split or merge their bank accounts. Part One lays out the inspiration for the piece: She’s recently married, and she and her husband are figuring out whether to maintain separate [...]
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Time to invest in tampons and Chardonnay.
image via Tampon Crafts. Women will recover faster from the recession than men, which leads economists to suggest investing in female-centered companies like Ann Taylor and Lululemon. Women will rebound from the U.S. recession faster than men because females didn’t lose as many jobs as men did during the recession, the report said. Some of [...]
...read moreArizona Funding Cuts Cause Patients to Be Dropped From Transplant Lists
In further news that the U.S. residents among us can be unspeakably proud of, the state of Arizona has, thanks to budget cuts, stopped funding some life-saving organ transplants for patients who cannot pay for them themselves. The result is that those who cannot come up with the money to fund a potential transplant — [...]
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The Plight of the Successful Woman
It’s a story as old as second-wave feminism (OLD): Successful women can’t find good men. Female empowerment is killing romance! Poor men, sometimes their girlfriends pay for vacations, and sometimes their wives make more money. That must be hard. Some couples manage it, somehow — she pays for all of the big expenses, but when [...]
...read moreIt pays to be thin
And if you’re a woman, it pays to be very thin. We have posted before on how obese women have a far harder time climbing the career ladder than their slimmer female counterparts, while men actually improve their chances of reaching the corner office when they gain weight. Now, a new study goes a step [...]
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