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#guestpost: Women who still support Trump. Why? @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / January 24, 2018America's image is being cheapened by the arrogant behavior of its asinine president — that's a fact. But the damage done goes deeper than just embarrassment in foreign relations, because Donald Trump...
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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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#guestpost: Football and dangerous masculinity stereotypes, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #guestposts / October 5, 2017Guestpost by Kate Harveston, Political Journalist & Blogger. Kate writes at onlyslightlybiased.com and tweets @kateharveston. -- Does football encourage dangerous masculinity stereotypes? Fall i...
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#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism / August 9, 2017#womenslives: She writes about a disturbing, familiar pattern: Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an ina...
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#patriarchiesrealign: “Male and female respondents blamed sexist attitudes for the ability of men…”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign / July 3, 2017Male and female respondents blamed sexist attitudes for the ability of men to fast-track their careers, despite the overwhelming numbers of women at entry and junior level. There was a strong percepti...
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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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#patriarchiesrealign: what does it mean when we call women girls?
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / May 26, 2017Tackling the “girl” trend has become a bit of a trend in itself, but often these pieces elide a meaningful distinction between two kinds of “girl” book: those whose plots revolve around actual, unde...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Women who perform femininity are judged to be less suited to science #academia #research – @socimages
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 17, 2017Sexism 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,...
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#patriarchiesrealign: The simple truth about the gender pay gap (Spring 2017) – @aauw From introduction to report: In 2015, women…
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 5, 2017#patriarchiesrealign: The simple truth about the gender pay gap (Spring 2017) - @aauw From introduction to report: In 2015, women working full time in the United States typically were paid just 8...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: women absent from introductory political science texts – @PSAWomenPol
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 4, 2017Despite 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 rega...
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#patriarchiesrealign: New study suggests women’s papers receive greater critical scrutiny #academia #research
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #quickhits / December 28, 2016But that headline doesn’t even scratch the surface of how interesting this study is. Erin Hengel examined papers by economists in top journals. She found: Women’s papers took longer from submiss...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Being called a bird is infantilising. Such terms hold women back
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / October 12, 2016(See also: love, sweetheart, and LET’S NOT EVEN START ON BABE, shall we? Gods preserve us.)•••A bird is a small, fragile thing. It chirrups, flutters and nests. It definitely does not chair board meet...
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#patriarchiesrealign: “The responses from the girls, however, were heartbreaking – they just wanted to be thinner”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / October 10, 2016The findings suggest that the problem may be getting worse, with the survey reflecting a five-year decline in girls’ body confidence. Almost 40% of girls aged seven to 21 do not feel happy with how th...
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#patriarchiesrealign: women and work
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 25, 2016On refinery29, and following on from this post, here’s some more on women and work. labour. Headline: “Across the globe, women spend about 4.5 hours a day on unpaid labor, such as child care and house...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Only 16% of Australians in Stem professions are women, and pay gap is ‘unacceptable’
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 7, 2016Same old, same old. Guardian (emphasis added): Women make up less than one-fifth of Australians qualified in science, technology, engineering and maths and continue to be paid less than their male col...
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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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