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#womeninpolitics: A different measure of success: we all win when women run – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #quickhits, #sexism / April 13, 2018By this point in 2018, you would have to be under a rock to have missed stories about the “pink wave” or “surge” of women candidates this year. Data from the Center for American Women and Politics (...
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#research: Will women vote for women in 2018? It depends on if they’re married – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 2, 2017[O]ur research indicates that Clinton’s failure to capture the white female vote is, in part, based in something more fundamental – marriage. The fate of women We found that when married whi...
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#feminismisdead: Trump’s moniker, “Crooked Hillary”, was a masterstroke
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / December 5, 2016Trump’s moniker, “Crooked Hillary”, was a masterstroke. Snappy yet vague (and thus irrefutable), it gained instant traction. But it was hardly original. In portraying his opponent as untrustworthy, co...
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#vivelafeminism: Why feminists shouldn’t trust Hillary Clinton – @kathy__gee
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / October 23, 2016“If a President Clinton returns to her old neoliberal self, feminists and other progressives would need to start planning for a 2020 primary challenge.”•••[T]here’s a viable alternative both to outrig...
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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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#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me – @sophierunning
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / December 28, 2015#womensstories: What a year of leading Britain’s first feminist political party has taught me - @sophierunning“[H]ow it feels to be totally, blissfully liberated from Britain’s male, white...
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#womenslives: The perils of even raising the ‘penalty’ of motherhood
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 24, 2015As deputy editor of the New Statesman, I’ve just discovered, pointing out that many powerful women are childless provokes a deeply emotive debateIt is not every day you get told off by Nicola Sturgeon...
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HARRIET: PINK OR MAGENTA, IT’S STILL PATRONISING AND SEXIST
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #sexism, #women, #thinkyblog / February 13, 2015I was asked on a comment elsewhere today: “I wonder what Elizabeth Cady Stanton would think of it all?” Good question, I thought. Though the question related to another issue, it could easily be aske...
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