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#research: #patriarchiesrealign: gender stereotypes hurt kids – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #research, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 17, 2017Who would have thunk it? This is not new news. Culprit: blue/ pink. Don’t scoff. There lies the start and core of gender roles/ norms training. Emphasis added as always. ••• The Global Early Adolesc...
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#patriarchiesrealign: women aren’t special: the insidious nature of benevolent sexism – @rolereboot
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / June 8, 2017A friend of mine recently shared a Vox article written by a self-proclaimed progressive dude titled, “Democrats should start accepting pro-life liberals like me” (spoiler, he’s really pro-choice). W...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “alpha” women need to learn to be nice – @broadly
By feimineach / in #sociology, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / May 27, 2017“That’s what men like: women who are easy to love,” writes Suzanne Venker, a family and marriage author, intent on teaching “alpha” women how to embrace their femininity and stop scaring off men, who ...
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#todayin: religion: feminists should be graceful (and they’re not, apparently)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #quickhits / February 6, 2017First up: The graceful feminism of Mary Tyler Moore(National Catholic Register)The show’s character, Mary Richards, was a 30-year old career woman at a Minneapolis TV news station. She hoped for marri...
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#study: women the decision-makers when starting a family, study finds
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 20, 2016(bc chimes with traditional gender roles: women do the family.)Fromtheguardian.com (emphasis added, as always):Women appear to be the decision-makers when it comes to starting a family, with a new rep...
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#research: motherhood Penalty for Women and Daddy Bonus for Men
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 30, 2016Today Fawcett release the latest findings from our nationwide poll of 8,000 people, entitled ‘Parents, work and care: Striking the Balance’. The poll found that when a woman has a baby, 46% of people...
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#research: “Need to push back against idea that femininity somehow at odds with serious science” – @uajamie, @skepchicks
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 1, 2016Jamie Bernstein on skepchick cautions against condescending to women, and vilifying femininity, in the push to encourage more women into STEM areas. Good points, and well made.Over at Quartz, Shannon ...
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#womenslives: Do we value women’s work?
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / November 20, 2015Do we value women’s work? (The F-Word) Global Women’s Strike argue it’s time to stand up for women’s unpaid care work. It is forty years since the women of Iceland took a Day Off and brought the c...
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#todayin sexism: #research: anger bolsters men’s authority while undermining women’s
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 13, 2015Herein lies evidence of everything that’s wrong with gender roles (women as passive and unassertive) and norms (women as calm and agreeable) and one effect of subverting or transgressing those r...
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#study: fatherhood changes men’s views on gender roles, and not for the better (on @bust_magazine)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 7, 2015What gives dudes, is right! On bust.com:According to a study produced by Australian social scientist Janeen Baxter, men “became more consistently traditional in their views on gender roles,” and “appe...
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#research: What was more concerning than the amount of work that women
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 16, 2015What was more concerning than the amount of work that women added compared to men was how much men perceived their work loads to increase when they had not. In surveys, men over-estimated their total ...
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#afeministtakeon: The Fall
By feimineach / in #feminism, #afeministtakeon..., #quickhits / March 4, 2015According to Sophia Softky on bitch mag, The Fall* subverts traditional gender roles in crime dramas. Examples (and spoilers for S2) below. Also, reading this about The Fall (because, holy smokes, it ...
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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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#todayin: *smh* Even when unemployed, men do less housework than women
By feimineach / in #quickhits / January 15, 2015The American Time Use Survey has revealed that unemployed men do less housework and spend more time watching TV on an average day than unemployed women. The graphs (right) are all interactive if you...
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#research: Honor killings condoned by third of teens in Amman, Jordan
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 4, 2014Emphasis added:Almost half of boys and one in five girls in Jordan’s capital city, Amman, believe that killing a woman who has “dishonored,” or shamed, her family is justifiable, a study of teenagers’...
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#research: Men are stuck in gender roles
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 31, 2013See, what a lot of people don’t realise (or want to realise) is that feminism is about improving life for women and men. It’s not about subjugating men. But, see, until traditional gender roles (which...
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#research: Honour Killing: Blame the System not the Faith
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 1, 2013“The main motivation behind all such crime against women is cultural and patriarchal beliefs that women are the property of male guardians.”We all have a lot to say about “honour killings” and why the...
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#research: The Modesty Survey, Flaunted Bodies, And American Youth
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 19, 2013“Yes, you can turn me on, but don’t expect me to respect you. Yes, I might find you attractive on the outside, but that won’t make me think of you as attractive on the inside. Sure you might get my at...
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#research: How Cultural Stereotypes Lure Women Away From Science Careers
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 1, 2013Women may be underrepresented in science and technology not because they are less skilled in those areas or because they face specific gender barriers to entering these fields, but because they may fi...
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#research: Advertising masculinity: Why ads in magazines like Playboy depict men as violent, horny, and angry.
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 4, 2013What makes an ideal man? Page through the advertisements placed in a standard American men’s magazine, and you’ll find one idea: He is a stomping, yelling, shooting, drinking, fucking, tough guy. He h...
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