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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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#vivelafeminism: Remembering a turning point for feminism – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 19, 2018No group had ever picketed the White House before, according to Jennifer Krafchik, Acting Director, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument. Many viewed women picketing during wartime as unp...
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#research: #maleficentmisogyny: Evidence of a toxic environment for women in economics
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / August 22, 2017The 30 words most uniquely associated with discussions of women make for uncomfortable reading. In order, that list is: hotter, lesbian, bb (internet speak for “baby”), sexism, tits, anal, marrying, ...
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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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#vivelafeminism: Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do? @zoesqwilliams
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 16, 2017These cuts are a feminist issue because they hit women disproportionately, and black and ethnic-minority women particularly hard. But this would be a feminist issue whoever bore the brunt of it, one p...
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#report: yes, the gender wage gap is real (see in particular: women of colour) – @rewire_news
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 20, 2016(Evidence people. There is Actual Evidence. See in particular: women of colour.)••• A major research report out Thursday from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) aims to inform the national discussion...
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#todayin: you have got to be joking! As women take over male-dominated field, pay drops
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 24, 2016Women’s median annual earnings stubbornly remain about 20 percent below men’s. Why is progress stalling?It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn...
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#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / February 28, 2016#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking, they have less time for paid work” - @olgakhazanFor example:“American women spend more than two hours daily on chores, compared...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism makes the world safer and richer: New U.N. report confirms
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 9, 2015profeminist: “When it comes to war, one of the groups most negatively impacted is often ignored: women. Studies have long shown that women bear enormous burdens in violent conflicts. A new exhaustiv...
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#research: Political scientists are nearly as likely to study economic inequality as economists are
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 27, 2015Political scientists are nearly as likely to study economic inequality as economists are, though they’re less interested in how much inequality a market can bear than in how much a democracy can bear,...
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#vivelafeminism: How Can We Help Men? By Helping Women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 13, 2014Feminism, there. Not just for the wimmin. From the NYTimes: THIS week Maria Shriver brings together a star-studded cast of celebrities, from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Beyoncé, to call attention to th...
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#research: Child poverty costs UK £29 billion a year (research)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 5, 2013On cpag.org: The high levels of child poverty in the UK are currently costing the country at least £29 billion a year – or £1,098 per household – according to new research released today by Donald Hi...
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#research: Where are the families with three generations who’ve been out of work?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 29, 2012The real problems of ‘in-work poverty’ and ‘underemployment’ are finally making some headlines, elbowing their way into the usual discourse about welfare to work and benefit dependency. But that isn’t...
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#research: How sex work has replaced a bar job for students who struggle to bills,loans and university fees
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 2, 2012Undergraduates have traditionally pulled pints or waited tables to pay their way through university, but a growing body of research suggests that a significant number are now turning to sex work to ma...
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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: Are women less ambitious than men? (Or, “#todayin: gender-biased and flawed research”)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 3, 2012We polled more than 1,000 young men and women what they hoped to earn one day in their careers.Some 16pc of women - one in six - aspire to take home more than £100,000 a year. One in five of the men s...
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#research: Freelance, part-time or fixed-term: is this the future of academic careers?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 13, 2012It seems one of the casualties of higher education reform, and the austere times that pre-empted it, has been working conditions for academics. Writing for Vitae, Rob Hardwick says: “In a culture that...
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#vivelafeminism: Gender equality is more than a goal in itself
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 4, 2010“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan (via fem...
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#research: Her Husband’s Last Name: Does a Woman’s Identity Change, Too?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 26, 2010Her Husband’s Last Name: Does a Woman’s Identity Change, Too?(via godsmokesparliaments) … A group of Dutch researchers recently found that women who change their name at marriage make nea...
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