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#guestpost: How common is sexual harassment on airlines? – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #misogyny, #patriarchy, #women / April 4, 2018As you board a plane, it’s not uncommon to scrutinize the size of the seats and wonder where exactly your carry-on bags are supposed to fit. But other than that, we generally feel safe nowadays, havin...
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#guestpost: Discrimination against mothers is still a real problem – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / March 18, 2018Throughout history, there have been a variety of ways people have discriminated against mothers. In the 1800s, they were barred from taking certain positions based on the belief that moms should stay ...
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#patriarchiesrealign: The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 18, 2018In spring 2013, HBO conducted a sly experiment on the “elite” TV-viewing public. It aired two new shows – both buddy dramas – back to back. Each was conceived as a short, self-contained season. Each h...
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#womenslives: The Yellow Wallpaper: a 19th-century short story of nervous exhaustion and the perils of women’s ‘rest cures’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 1, 2018The Yellow Wallpaper enlightens the reader on women’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown and its treatment, as well as feminism and gender relations in late 19th-century America. Though many detai...
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#womenslives: #womensstories: women in blue-collar workplaces on harassment – @nytimes
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #gender, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 25, 2018A woman on a repair crew was deliberately stranded on top of a 200-foot wind turbine by her male co-workers after enduring months of lewd taunts. An aerospace worker got the nickname Bird Seed because...
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#guestpost: #rapeculture and sexualizing children – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #guestposts / January 9, 2018While Honey Boo-Boo brought viewers a lighthearted look at the world of children's beauty pageants, the reality is closer to the tragic tale of Jon Benet Ramsey. While children's beauty pageants conti...
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#guestpost: India’s sexual assault problem – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / November 23, 2017Statistics about rape are always heartbreaking, but when you look at the numbers coming out of India, it becomes downright terrifying. Did you know that rape is the 4th most common crime in the countr...
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#guestpost: girls don’t need to join Boy Scouts — we need to revamp what it means to be a Girl Scout – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #equality, #patriarchy, #sexism, #guestposts / November 7, 2017Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are the same things, right? Don’t they both learn camping, hiking and survival skills? Don’t they both build fires, tie knots, climb rocks and shoot bows and arrows? Doesn’t...
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#womenslives: The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic – @guardian
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 22, 2017The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept of the ‘mental load’. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores. (Rest.)
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#capitalismwilleatitself: what the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 20, 2017Faux-feminism, just lean-in, you do have it all, gals, there’s nothing to see here, oh just stoppit now, etc. (emphasis added, as always). Popular feminism and popular misogyny Together, these two ...
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#guestpost: Barbie lawyer: my thoughts on Eboni Williams’ “Dress for Success” advice – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / September 7, 2017Eboni Williams was recently featured in the news due to her focus on appearance to get results. Some of what she says is fairly decent advice. Other pieces of her advice, particularly her focus on "pr...
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#research: #maleficentmisogyny: Evidence of a toxic environment for women in economics
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / August 22, 2017The 30 words most uniquely associated with discussions of women make for uncomfortable reading. In order, that list is: hotter, lesbian, bb (internet speak for “baby”), sexism, tits, anal, marrying, ...
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#guestpost: Debunking the myths: the #paygap is very real, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #guestposts / August 21, 2017People should earn what they deserve. It's a simple concept. It seems fair that if a white male makes a certain amount doing a given job, their counterpart with the same job and level of qualificati...
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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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#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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#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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#maleficentmisogyny: Bikini Season. Sarah Kiefer on @FemReligion
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / May 25, 2017When I was about thirteen I went to a conference with the rest of the girls in youth group. It was a “modesty conference” geared at teaching young women the “biblical” truth of their role as a femal...
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#academia: misogyny is to blame for the gender gap in stem – @rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #academia, #education, #equality, #quickhits, #sexism / April 27, 2017As 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-d...
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