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#womensstories: this is what it’s like to have to travel abroad for an abortion
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / July 15, 2015Niamh, 39, was 14 weeks into her pregnancy when she found out her baby had a fatal foetal abnormality and would die in her womb before the end of the final trimester. “I remember just sitting in my c...
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#womensstories: Girls’ stories: the sexual abuse to prison pipeline
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / July 13, 2015From the report: Sasha was raped as a high school student. When news of the rape was circulated in social media, she was ridiculed by her classmates, making it impossible for her to feel safe at scho...
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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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#womenslives #feminism #misogyny #sexism
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / July 8, 2015#womenslives #feminism #misogyny #sexism
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#research: national hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 7, 2015The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty ...
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#todayin sexism: #research: John vs. Jennifer: A Battle of the Sexes
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 5, 2015Student applications rated for competence, hireability, and mentoring. More research evidence on the bias towards male applicants in science. Respondents were asked to rate students with identical ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: It’s time to talk about the johns
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / July 3, 2015The lengths to which sex industry apologists will go to in order to push the idea that buying sex is synonymous with sexual liberation and empowerment never ceases to amaze me. While “progressives” fi...
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#todayin: neo-liberal academia: #research: A feminist leaves NeoLiberal U
By feimineach / in #academia, #research, #quickhits / July 2, 2015I cannot stress how important the blog post is below. It is from Academic Irregularities* and responds to a feminist academic’s letter of resignation from her university. The response describes ...
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#research: Do women speak less when when there are more men around?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 30, 2015A recent study conducted at Brigham Young University and Princeton has revealed that significant gender inequality still exists for women when debating issues in mixed-gender settings. According to n...
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#maleficentmisogyny: “My 25 years as a prostitute”
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / June 30, 2015[…] I would watch women with big glamorous hair and sparkly dresses standing on the street outside our house. I had no idea what they were up to; I just thought they were shiny. As a little gir...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Meninism is not defined in the dictionary because meninism is not a valid term or movement
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / June 29, 2015meninism. LULz. On bust: Meninism is not defined in the dictionary because meninism is not a valid term or movement. The two men who run the Meninism Tweet Twitter account say meninism is “(parody) ob...
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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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#research: Study shows how men overcompensate when their masculinity is questioned
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 26, 2015A new study confirms that when men feel their masculinity is being questioned, they’ll often try to compensate by both rejecting anything considered “feminine” and exaggerating their “manliness” in ot...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / June 25, 2015Mounted on horseback, dressed in white robes, marching on the Royal Albert Hall, this was a pivotal time for the suffragette movement, captured by one of the UK’s first press photographers, Christina ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: women are liars
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / June 25, 2015Excellent piece on rolereboot by Soraya Chemaly. The message that women are untrustworthy liars is everywhere in our culture—from TV and music, to politics and religion, says Chemaly. In both cases, ...
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#womenslives: Hanna Yusuf asks why a simple piece of clothing is seen as the very epitome of oppression
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / June 24, 2015https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/commentisfree/video/2015/jun/24/hijab-not-oppression-feminist-statement-video Hanna Yusuf asks why a simple piece of clothing is seen as the very epitome of ...
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#picturethis: Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / June 19, 2015Soldiers in petticoats: portraits of the suffragettes – in pictures All photographs: Christina Broom/Museum of London (via the guardian). [gallery link="none" size="full" type="slideshow" ids="21325...
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#womensstories: #HERstory: #anonymouswasawoman: The Forgotten Women of Punk: Shotgun Seamstress’ Osa Atoe on the “Super Tiny” World of Black Punk
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / June 19, 2015There is a narrative about punk – call it the American Hardcore narrative – that women and non-binary-gendered people were active in punk during the initial wave, then disappeared as the 1980s progr...
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#womenslives: The Forgotten Women of Punk: Shotgun Seamstress’ Osa Atoe on the “Super Tiny” World of Black Punk
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / June 19, 2015There is a narrative about punk – call it the American Hardcore narrative – that women and non-binary-gendered people were active in punk during the initial wave, then disappeared as the 1980s progres...
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#todayin: labor history: June 18, 1984
By feimineach / in #feminism, #quickhits / June 18, 2015todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, June 18, 1984: During picketing of the Orgreave Coking Plant in South Yorkshire, England, police attack striking miners, arresting nearly one hundred peop...
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