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...read moreHey, guys, it’s the weekend!
You can thank unions generally, and Wisconsin specifically, for that. Just sayin’.
...read moreIt’s not just violent clients who abuse sex workers
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. There are 21 events happening in the U.S. alone; more are listed on the site. Too many sex workers are killed, raped, assaulted and abused because, to paraphrase Oregon serial killer Gary Ridgeway, they’re easy targets. Their work is often done clandestinely, and they typically [...]
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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 moreFemale Music Critics Transcend Fan Culture
This is a guest post from Georgia Kral, re-posted with permission from On The Issues magazine. Scan through the pages of a major music magazine, the arts section of The New York Times, Pitchfork.com or myriad other sources and count the number of female bylines you find on pop music criticism. Not many, right? (Or [...]
...read moreCar Repair is Women’s Work
By Ann Farmer, republished with permission from On The Issues magazine. Car mechanic and mother Audra Fordin dons her work gloves to do a grease job on an automobile in her shop in Queens, New York. She’s so comfortable under the hood that she’s embarked on a mission to teach other women the basics of [...]
...read more‘I have earned the right to call myself anything I like.’
You must read this simply amazing letter by Adrian Piper. Thank you very much indeed to ana australiana, who indirectly led me to the link.
...read moreGender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality
by Joan Williams The gender pay gap is standard measure of women’s economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, it was 59 cents: women earned 59 cents for every dollar men earned. Today it’s up to 77 cents, according to the National Committee on Pay Equity. That’s progress, right? Here’s even more rosy news: [...]
...read moreSweet Serendipity
Funny that my spiral into self-reflection (and slight self-blaming) coincided with my time as a guest blogger here at Feministe. Actually, it isn’t funny at all – things in my life usually tends to work in an oddly serendipitous manner and having you all here to help me reflect has been incredible. From what’s been [...]
...read moreGetting More Women to Tech
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Shira Ovide, one of its media reporters, about the lack of women in the leadership among tech companies and talked about the protests over the separately branded TEDWomen conference that was announced last month. Short version: There are too few women in tech. Only about [...]
...read moreOn Generosity
This is the third in a series examining issues raised by a blog post from Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck, where he suggested that women’s interest in closing the gender pay gap amounted to a “fetish for money,” and the subsequent apologies for it by himself and Chamber COO David Chavern. Part [...]
...read moreIt’s Money, Honey
Firstly, thanks to everyone who commented on my post about self-sabotage. So many of you had interesting things to say (I’m definitely going to get checked out for ADHD) and the feedback really contributed to my ability to think about how to start making positive changes and get rid of self-defeating habits. It also got [...]
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