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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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#research: youngest millennials who seem resistant to continuing the gender revolution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #research, #quickhits / April 3, 2017#research: youngest millennials who seem resistant to continuing the gender revolution Millennials and stay-at-home wives. Headlines: - “In 1994, only 42 percent of high school seniors agreed that...
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#guestpost: #research: More on the underrepresentation of women in psychology journals
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #guestposts / January 30, 2017(Posted with permission from the author from the FWSA blog.) In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I...
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#guestpost: #research: why *are* feminists so unattractive?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #research, #misogyny, #guestposts / November 8, 2016This is a #guestpost by Elin Weiss. Elin has a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies. Her interests include feminism, gender stereotypes, the sexualization of women and the portrayal of women and men in ...
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#picturethis: 11 powerful feminist messages, written on the bodies fighting for them (HuffPo) (NSFW).
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #picturethis, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy, #quickhits / May 22, 2016By Liora K: liorakphotography.com @HuffPo Liora began the project, titled “Feminism,” in 2012, after she moved to a Republican state for the first time and heard more about proposed reproductive ri...
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#vivelafeminism: Why are we so afraid of the f-word?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 2, 2015So how do we change the perception that “feminism is scary”? The answer is that we shouldn’t have to. Instead of teaching women to shy away from feminism we should be empowering women to speak up. Ed...
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#vivelafeminism: If feminist icons lose their way the movement continues without them
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 22, 2015On feminism and “old” vs. “new” activism. Bottom line: young women are not apathetic or frivolous any more than older women are redundant, but there does seem to be a case for more listening and learn...
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ON THAT REPRODUCIBILITY IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDY
By feimineach / in #sociology, #research, #thinkyblog / August 30, 2015The feministphilosophers take on the recent claim from a study published in Science (Reproducibility in Psychology - Nosek et al, 2015) that some research in psychology is not replicable (i.e. the sam...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s time we stopped assuring people that feminism isn’t a threat
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / July 15, 2015Finn Mackay made the following speech at Feminism in London 2013 and moved our Editorial Assistant to tears. It was originally published by Open Democracy and is reprinted here under a Creative Common...
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#vivelafeminism: The oversimplification of feminism, and how it’s destroying us
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / July 9, 2015Some very good points, well made here. By frothydragon on aroomofourown. 2011. Sat in Gatwick airport, I found myself reading a quote from Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, in which Moran described ...
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN CARE AND OFFENDING: A BROKEN SYSTEM
By feimineach / in #sociology, #thinkyblog / June 26, 2015On the 23rd of June, 2015, the Prison Reform Trust launched a review to examine why children aged 10 to 17 who are in care are more likely to offend than children who are not in care. [1] The Trust ac...
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#vivelafeminism: Orange is the New Black is fast becoming a feminist classic
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 11, 2015Orange is the New Black is about to return for a third season. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s time to sit up and take note: the Netflix programme looks set to become a classic of feminist televis...
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#vivelafeminism: Lads’ mags, sexual violence and the need for feminist intervention
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 4, 2015On lads’ mags, consent, post-feminist “empowerment” (“post-feminist” should really be in scare quotes too), and the mainstreaming of sexual violence against women and gir...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists don’t care if you like hot pink, eat salads or shave your crotch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 24, 2015Women around the world will be treated to such an extraordinary feat of feminism in 2016 that they’ll scarcely know what to do with it. No, I’m not talking about the first female president of the Unit...
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#vivelafeminism: On ‘corporate feminism’ and the appropriation of the women’s movement
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 14, 2015On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the magazine...
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#vivelafeminism: No, feminism is not about choice
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2015Feminism is back in fashion. As the push to claim the “f-word” has intensified, public figures, corporations and much of the mainstream media have propelled a largely unchallenging version of feminism...
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#vivelafeminism: feminism isn’t perfect, but it sure beats #womenagainstfeminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 24, 2015As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...
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#vivelafeminism: feminism isn’t perfect, but it sure beats #womenagainstfeminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 24, 2015As most feminists know, the Women Against Feminism blog has blown up over the past couple of days. Hundreds of women have taken to social media to discuss why they are against the feminist movement, m...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 17, 2015Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who wondered what my work might look like if I “included the feminist perspective.” Since black feminism infuses and shapes all of my politics, I l...
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