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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: The Irish Times special coverage: How Irish women won the vote
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 17, 2012I’m way, way, way late in posting this but not to worry. (And it seems poignant now anyway after the news this week that a woman died in Ireland because she was refused an abortion. We have come only ...
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#research: Women, Education, and Trends in Childlessness
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 16, 2012In doing research for a book I may write about voluntary childnessness, I came across a telling graphic from the Pew Research Center. First, note that the percent of women age 40-44 without a biologi...
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#research: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and the Pay Gap
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 16, 2012The Washington Post has a post up by Dylan Matthews that looks at the U.S. gender wage gap over time. It has several charts that illustrate trends in pay very clearly. Here’s a breakdown of median inc...
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#research: New Study of Scientists’ Views of Sex Discrimination’s Impact
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 14, 2012Both male and female scientists believe that gender discrimination is one reason why some women avoid careers in science, and why some who opt for science careers pursue biology as opposed to physics,...
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#vivelafeminism: Not My Struggle: Motherhood, Feminism, and Women of Color
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 12, 2012Photo courtesy of author (use not necessarily endorsed here). This piece, “I’m Not A ‘Mother First’” by Jessica Valenti, dropped on The Nation a few weeks ago and has ...
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#vivelafeminism: No More Boobs in the British News?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 11, 2012If American feminists think that U.S. media leads the way in objectifying women, they might be surprised to learn that buttoned-up Britain has been receiving a dose of naked breasts with breakfast for...
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#maleficentmisogyny: The Misogynist Elephant: Why Women Are Reluctant to Label Themselves‘Experts’
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 11, 2012By Jane Thomas. The under-representation of women in news reporting has come into the spotlight once again this week, courtesy of a series of high profile debates and discussions about women’s issues...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Feminism is Dead, Long Live Femininity (blah, blah, I like the statusquo, blah, blah)
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 4, 2012Blah, blah, blah, privileged white woman says she doesn’t need feminism and that it’s kinda aggressive and scary and that we should all, just, be cool with each other, blah, blah, blah. I don’t want ...
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#research: Why We Desperately Need More Women in STEM Fields
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 3, 2012So, your six-year-old daughter has been dreaming of becoming a computer scientist. And, as much as you tell her that she will be able to do anything she wants to do, what you’re not telling her is the...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Sexism in the skeptic community: I spoke out, then came the rape threats
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 2, 2012It wasn’t until I started talking about feminism to skeptics that I realized I didn’t have a safe space.When I first got involved with the skeptics, I thought I had found my people—a community that en...
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#research: The Continuing Relevance of Class
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 1, 2012Politicians always seem to be talking about the middle class. They need some new focus groups. According to the Pew Research Center, over the past four years the percentage of adult Americans that s...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism is more advanced in Australia than in Britain
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 31, 2012The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard’s labelling of the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, a “misogynist” has become the focus of intense debate both in Australia and here...
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#vivelafeminism: The end of feminism? There are more of us than you think
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 31, 2012Last week there was much ado about Netmums, the website which produced a poll pronouncing the end of feminism, on the basis that only one in seven of a group of women they surveyed self-defined as a f...
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#research: Gender bias (from men and women) blocks women in science
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 31, 2012We hear a lot about the gender imbalance in the sciences. Now scientists have looked at one reason women might be disinclined to join the profession: gender bias. A new study from researchers at Yale ...
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#academia: Where are the women in universities?
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / October 30, 2012Someone insisted to a student of mine recently that she must have got my title wrong because women are not “called Doctor” ever. “They’re just not,” apparently. When I w...
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#research: Gay and lesbian parents are “perfectly average” (i.e. just like everyone else)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 28, 2012A report out in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry finds that “high-risk” children adopted from foster care do just as well when matched with gay, lesbian or straight parents...
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#research: Mobile Apps and Research Methods
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 25, 2012Every now and then new technology will change something that humans do in very radical ways. We’ve been collecting information from people scientifically with surveys, interviews, and observatio...
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#vivelafeminism: What is feminism? Diverse range of women writers discuss their definition, idea, or experience of feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 25, 2012Editor’s note: The following post is part of a series in which a diverse range of women writers discuss their definition, idea, or experience of feminism. For more background, take a look at our Fall ...
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#research: Skilled probation officers cut crime
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 24, 2012“The prime minister’s affirmation of rehabilitation as a guiding principle of penal policy is welcome (Editorial, 23 October), his vision of how it is to be achieved less so. In some respects he...
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#research: What Do You Know, Feminism Really DOES Work (an actual RESEARCH study)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 23, 2012Here is some Actual Peer-Reviewed Research ™ on feminism in modernity (you know, rather than asking women whose life choices and societal preferences are, likely, based upon family and traditional fam...
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