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#womenslives: Will I be next? South Africa women ask – BBC News

May 22, 2017

Caption: Karabo Mokoena’s killing is being seen as symbolic of the wider violence faced by women in South Africa Gender violence in South Africa 1 in 5 women are assaulted by their partner More than 40,000 cases of rape are reported every year, most of the victims are female Femicide in South Africa is 5 times higher than the global […]

#academia: misogyny is to blame for the gender gap in stem – @rolereboot

April 27, 2017

As a female scientist, I have had my fair share of misogynistic experiences. Some of them were covert attempts to remind me of my pre-determined role, while others were more flagrant. My male post-doctoral mentor repeatedly requested and expected me to babysit his child, even during a business trip where I was supposed to network with senior colleagues (My 6’5″ […]

#research: Women “display femininity” by doing housework, men “display masculinity” by not

April 26, 2017

[First I laughed. Then I wondered. Then I shook my head. Then I thought: ‘that makes some sort of sense’. Because patriarchy and gender and women long knowing the division of labour (and men benefiting) you see.] ••• British women who kick off their work shoes and get stuck into the housework when they get home of an evening, even […]

#vivelafeminism: a movement, not a moment: inside the outrage – @msmagazine

April 21, 2017

The Outrage launched six months ago with a focus on feminism and women’s empowerment. CEO Rebecca Lee Funk sought to blend style and activism. When Donald Trump became president, sales immediately skyrocketed. Funk became an official partner of the Women’s March, and decided her pop-up operation would remain open indefinitely. She hired Maldonado, who had never been a creative director, […]

#feminismisdead: Feminism: an excuse to exploit women? – @PatriarchTree

April 21, 2017

These are really disturbing allegations about the goings-on in the Thinx company, which is, apparently, based on “beliefs in gender equality”. This piece, however, is written by someone who is so clearly anti-feminism and who really wants to grind his feminist axe. See, for example, the statement: ‘Feminism often seems to be interpreted as carte blanche for women to engage in […]

#research: U of T: racial bias may begin in babies at six months

April 20, 2017

In the first study, published in Developmental Science, Lee showed that six- to nine-month-old babies begin to associate faces from their own race with happy music and those from other races with sad music. In the second study, published in Child Development, the researchers found that babies as young as six months were more inclined to learn information from […]

#research: bad chart thursday: the unbearable whiteness of being a Trump voter – @skepchicks

April 20, 2017

Well, okay, the chart does have one problem. The far-left column does not clearly label what the percentages mean. Those are each the percentage of total voters each group represents. This is particularly useful in understanding that, say, 25% of Latina voters voting for Trump only comes out to about 1.5 percentage points of Trump’s total 46.21 (total as of […]

#womenslives: “Why i’m done trying to get you to help fight rape culture” – @wearyourvoice

April 19, 2017

Sometimes it feels as if no matter how many times we write our stories, no matter how many statistics we show you, you don’t really care. (Content warning: discussion of sexual assault/rape) I’m not who I was before I was sexually assaulted. There are parts of myself that I have shed for my own safety and mental health. Being kind, […]

#vivelafeminism: being a libertarian and a feminist

April 18, 2017

Libertarians despise racism and sexism as much as anyone because it is a form of collectivism that strips someone’s individual identity with a set of traits and stereotypes. Rugged individualism is at the core of libertarian philosophy, while collectivist ideologies go against many of the tenants of libertarianism – the belief that the government should not outlaw “hate speech” for […]

#feminismisdead: #todayin: feminists doing feminism wrong: the problems with feminism

April 18, 2017

(Written by bloke who doesn’t like the femisinisms.) Based on research done by YouGov, an internet research firm, only 26 percent of the population in the U.S. identify as being a feminist. A more recent poll was done by Vox that shows that only 18 percent of the population identifies as being feminist. In this same poll it is shown […]

#patriarchiesrealign: Women who perform femininity are judged to be less suited to science #academia #research – @socimages

April 17, 2017

Sexism in American society has been on the decline. Obstacles to female-bodied people excelling in previously male-only occupations and hobbies have lessened. And women have thrived in these spaces, sometimes even overtaking men both quantitatively and qualitatively. Another kind of bias, though, has gotten worse: the preference for masculinity over femininity. Today we like our men manly, just like we […]

#vivelafeminism: How Romania’s feminists are fighting back

April 16, 2017

Abortion has been legal in Romania since the fall of Ceausescu. Under his rule, it’s estimated 10,000 women died as a result of so-called illegal abortions. For post-communist Romania, legalising abortion was seen as a way to move forward from the horrors of the dictatorship. Although abortion is now legal and free, the reality of accessing the procedure is much […]

#todayin: academia: #research: women academics do more “servce work” to their possible professional detriment

April 14, 2017

Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportionate service loads? A new study says yes and adds to a growing body of research suggesting the same. “We find strong evidence that, on average, women faculty perform more service than male […]

#research: Sociologists urge use of big data to study human interaction

April 10, 2017

The internet dominates our world and each one of us is leaving a larger digital footprint as more time passes. Those footprints are ripe for studying, experts say. A new paper urges sociologists and social psychologists to focus on developing online research studies with the help of big data to advance theories of social interaction and structure. In a recently […]

#research: gender, socialisation and early sexism – @ConversationUK

April 6, 2017

Researchers have shown that by age one (and in some studies, as early as three months old), children show clear preferences for gender-consistent toys (eg trucks for boys, dolls for girls). This occurs even if they have only been exposed to gender-neutral toys, or had equal access to both “boys” and “girls” toys. So, does this mean that kids as […]

#todayin: fighting back: from pink collars to pink hats: working-class feminism and the resistance

April 5, 2017

Tightly gripping a “Firefighters for Women’s Rights and Equality” banner at the Women’s March on Washington, a group of women who had once made history as New York City’s first female firefighters roared up Independence Avenue. There, they joined a new generation of labor activists: teachers, nurses, government workers, restaurant servers, home health-care aides, communications workers, and thousands of other […]

#patriarchiesrealign: #research: women absent from introductory political science texts – @PSAWomenPol

April 4, 2017

Despite compelling arguments for gender mainstreaming in political science education, evidence indicates that very little mainstreaming is taking place. This is likely related to a knowledge gap regarding politics and gender. As Ernest Boyer noted: “[A]s a scholarly enterprise, teaching begins with what the teacher knows.” Nevertheless, professors would be hard-pressed to know everything there is to know about their […]

#todayin: austerity: welfare shakeup ‘will push a quarter of a million children into poverty’

April 3, 2017

Payments to bereaved families cut from 20 years to 18 months.Two charities say cuts will leave 75% of bereaved families worse off. ••• “A government shakeup of welfare payments being introduced on Thursday will push a quarter of a million children into poverty while wiping thousands of pounds off payments for bereaved families, according to research. Analysis for the Guardian reveals […]

#womenslives: female academics and the ‘flexibility myth’ @ rolereboot

April 1, 2017

There’s a flexibility myth in academia. It goes like this: Academic mothers have it much better than other professional mothers because of their flexible schedule—a luxury women in business, journalism, law, and medicine don’t enjoy—which allows them to set their own hours, and chart their individual paths to success. It’s tempting to buy into this myth, a kind of variation […]

#womenslives: republican politician says women should be forced to carry dead fetuses to term – @broadly

April 1, 2017

Earlier this week, during a committee hearing for an abortion ban that is being proposed in Ohio, a Republican state representative, Shannon Lundgren, mounted a troubling defense of her hardline stance that a woman should not be able to terminate her pregnancy after 20 weeks. The anti-abortion politician suggested that women who miscarry after 20 weeks of pregnancy should carry […]