#vivelafeminism
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#guestpost: As female representation increases, these four industries may not be male-dominated for long – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / May 15, 2018Success for women in the workforce becomes more prevalent as time goes on. Slowly but surely, women have spoken up with courage and paved the way for others, starting with things like voting rights an...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist activists today should still look to ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #quickhits, #women / May 7, 2018The women who wrote the first edition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” met at a women’s liberation conference in 1969. They had gathered to discuss the topic of women and their bodies, but it didn’t take...
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#youngfeminists: The young woman taking on women’s rights in Cambodia – @HuffPostUK
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / April 18, 2018She began to read articles and books on feminism and watching videos on You Tube and she started to notice just how much violence and discrimination there is against women in Cambodia. Worst of all,...
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#youngfeminists: One hundred years later, has enough really changed? – @HuffPostUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 2, 2018So we ask ourselves, 100 years later, has enough really changed? Harvey Weinstein has been able to get away with the assault and (allegedly) rape of women for over three decades without consequence ...
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#research: #womenslives: It’s official: abortion is more regulated than any health care service – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #womensrights, #research, #womenslives, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 3, 2018A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health confirmed what many reproductive rights advocates have long known: abortion is more regulated and legislated than any other health care...
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#vivelafeminism: Hundred years of votes for women: how far we’ve come and how far there’s still to go – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / February 8, 2018By establishing a higher threshold for membership of this community, the law ultimately reinforced women’s status as second class citizens. Women would have to wait another ten years before achieving ...
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#vivelafeminism: We are all revolutionaries here review: beyond stereotyped discourse around Pakistani women and hijabs – @feminisminindia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #women / January 29, 2018What stands out in this narrative is that it stays far away from the overused and tired rhetoric around Pakistani women. That of stereotypes about women who are “oppressed” ( the favourite word used i...
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#vivelafeminism: #enoughisenough: inside a new feminist campaign to end sexual violence and harassment – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 2, 2018The #EnoughIsEnough campaign—made possible by a collaboration between the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, National Congress of Black Women, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Legal ...
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#womenslives: Abortion on demand and without apology – @feministire
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 15, 2017Pro-choicers: does the above sound familiar? If it doesn’t, you need to learn your fucking history. This was a slogan of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, a movement that succe...
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#vivelefeminism: prayer and protest: Mormon women join the Trump resistance.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / September 26, 2017Mullins Glenn has inadvertently become the face of an unprecedented political movement among Mormon women. It started the week after Trump’s inauguration, when she and a group of writer friends were...
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#guestpost: My journey with and guide to intersectional feminism, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #women, #guestposts / September 20, 2017The topic of intersectional feminism has been in the news a lot lately, especially with the controversy surrounding the Women’s March earlier this year. Intersectional feminism directly contrasts the ...
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#vivelafeminism: The feminist army leading the fight against ISIS – @redpeppermag
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / August 2, 2017What it did not anticipate in Kobane was to encounter an enemy of a different kind – an organised, political community that was ready to defend itself courageously by all means necessary, and with a...
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#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy / May 6, 2017We're living dystopia but by gods, we got game. From bitch email dispatch: Brown Girls appeared onscreen. [OpenTV] The newly-announced Poetry Coalition gathered to defend the value of poetr...
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#vivelafeminism: going on the offensive for abortion rights – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #law / April 26, 2017“We are seeing the Whole Woman’s Health Acts in particular being introduced in some states deeply hostile to reproductive rights,” Amanda Allen, senior state legislative counsel for the Center for R...
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#vivelafeminism: a movement, not a moment: inside the outrage – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 21, 2017The Outrage launched six months ago with a focus on feminism and women’s empowerment. CEO Rebecca Lee Funk sought to blend style and activism. When Donald Trump became president, sales immediately s...
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#vivelafeminism: being a libertarian and a feminist
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 18, 2017Libertarians despise racism and sexism as much as anyone because it is a form of collectivism that strips someone’s individual identity with a set of traits and stereotypes. Rugged individualism is ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump – @wync
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / April 18, 2017#vivelafeminism: Feminism in the age of Trump - @wync: ‘On this episode of Indivisible, we’re talking about feminism in the age of Trump. Are we all seeing politics and life through the lens of ge...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism around the world: economist analyzes global gender gap in the workplace despite feminist gains – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 27, 2017Less heartening is what happens to those women once they leave school. That’s where the seeds of inequality they’ve experienced all their lives really begin to grow fruit. The labor force worldwide is...
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#vivelafeminism: Turkish women rising
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017Turkish women risingThe tweet translates: The Assembly is reflected in the will of the people against the will of the people, you cannot present the Bill!!From @ms-magazine-blog (x): Led by a doctor, ...
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#vivelafeminism: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017On Mother’s Day, a piece by @glosswitch on feminist and motherhood: @newstatesman:The question “what is a woman?” – that annoying, wheedling, pseudo-intellectual musing, of which there’s no equivalent...
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