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#patriarchiesrealign: sustained gender inequality in the British Government
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 4, 2016Che Ramsden in openDemocracy unpicks the sustained gender inequality in the British Government. See also: Strengthening democracy: tackling the over-representation of men.This piece: opendemocracy (em...
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#patriarchiesrealign: gender imbalance in science
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / March 17, 2016From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an associate prof. of informatics explores another gender imbalance in science. We know that women less likely to promoted and to progress in the sciences, and ...
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#womensstories: “Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do…”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 6, 2016Then, a month ago, she wrote and asked me what to do. She forwarded an email she had received from a senior colleague that opened, “Can I share something deeply personal with you?” Within the email,...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Female lecturers ‘suffer from gender biases’ in student ratings
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #quickhits / August 14, 2015OK, so, we all need to stop laughing first of all that the study’s author is called Dr Boring. That’s unfortunate. Stoppit! Moving on: a study which examined over 22,000 student evaluatio...
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#patriarchiesrealign: a simple guide to the gender pay gap (on @aliceruthwhite)
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / August 5, 2015With bullet points and lists and statistics and everything. But seriously, very good info. here. On aliceruthwhite.wordpress.com: So many people talk about the gender pay gap, but it’s really difficul...
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#patriarchiesrealign: More large companies run by men called John and David than women of any name
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / March 4, 2015More large companies run by men called John and David than women of any nameInspired by a recent report that calculated that there are more men named John, Robert, William or James than there are wome...
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#patriarchiesrealign: young children must be protected from ingrained gender stereotypes
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / February 27, 2015The piece below (from Laura Bates on the Guardian) shows a few examples of the everyday sexism that feeds into children’s education - “One [parent] referenced their son’s physics homework,...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Boys are doctors; girls are nurses
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / February 2, 2015Boys are doctors; girls are nurses From Sociological Images: Our Pointlessly Gendered Products Pinterest board is funny, no doubt. When people make male and female versions of things like eggs, do...
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#patriarchiesrealign: From Vaught’s Practical Character Reader
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / January 31, 2015From Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, published in 1902 and revised in 1907, by Emily H. Vaught. There are some wonderful illustrations here (thesocietypages.org) from a book published by Emily H...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Gender bias found in reviews of scientific studies
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #research, #quickhits / January 31, 2015A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study. Young scholars rated publications supposedly written by male scientists a...
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#patriarchiesrealign: plain of feature and certainly overweight
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / January 30, 2015Today in sexism: plain of feature and certainly overweight… Michael Rowe shared this on Facebook with the following comment: “I can’t help but wonder what it would look like if a male author w...
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#patriarchiesrealign: law students use course evaluations to discuss female professors’ clothing
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / January 29, 2015We’ve said this before in the past, but it apparently bears repeating — constantly. Women in the legal profession are treated much differently than their male colleagues, right down to their fashion ...
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#patriarchiesrealign: the secret plague of women at work: ‘manterrupting’
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / January 27, 2015As a young lawyer in Arkansas, Hillary Clinton came across an advice column on how to decorate your first office. If you are a man, pepper it with pictures of your family, the male writer advised: “E...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Women, know your limits: cultural sexism in academia (Savignya, 2014)
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #research, #quickhits / January 22, 2015Abstract: Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even ...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: sexist internet dudes refuse to believe sexism is a thing
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #research, #quickhits / January 16, 2015Clue’s in the title, there. From: feministing: According to a new study, That Guy in the Comments Section is going to need a lot more than Real Scientific Evidence to convince him that sexism exists....
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#patriarchiesrealign: “If Dad made more money, you wouldn’t work, right?”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / December 10, 2014What unnerves me is realizing that somehow, my own daughter has picked up on the idea that for a mother to not work is the optimum situation, the one that, if money were no object, of course one would...
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#patriarchiesrealign: For Women at the Olympics, the Spotlight Can Be Harsh
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / August 10, 2012The American sprinter Lolo Jones may have been speaking for a number of female Olympic athletes on the “Today” show Wednesday morning when she tearfully deplored criticism she had received in American...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Hurdling, sexism, and pretty virgins
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / August 8, 2012In Olympic sports, you draw criticism if you don’t look girly enough. But you can also cause a stir if you’re, well, just a little too pretty. A recent article in the NY Times has been generating a lo...
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