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#research: Scientists take note: women are key to the best results
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 17, 2012Research deserves our support for one simple reason: it improves societies and the lives of their citizens. Researchers discover what was previously unknown and they use that knowledge for innovation ...
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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: Annual Book Prize – Feminist and Women’s Studies Association book prize is now open
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 27, 2012The Book Prize is now kindly supported by Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan is internationally renowned for its support and publication of feminist and gender studies scholarship. Philippa Grand,...
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#research: No women bishops, no automatic seats in the House of Lords (petition)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 26, 2012Responsible department: Cabinet OfficeThe Church of England on 20th Nov 2012 voted not to allow women to be Bishops. Though that is within its rights to do, this should worry the Government as Church ...
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#research: TEDxWomen 2012: No Matter Where You Are
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 22, 2012The worldwide phenomenon known as TED was started in 1984 when designer and architect Richard Saul Wurman noticed the complex, dynamic and culture-changing confluence of Technology, Entertainment and ...
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#vivelafeminism: Stephanie Coontz on feminism and the American family
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 19, 2012All too often, people mistake fiction for fact. Considering that we live in an era where the lines between entertainment and information have been blurred almost beyond comprehension, this becomes an ...
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#vivelafeminism: My thoughts on Femen and feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012All of this post is worth reading. I have quoted the end of it. Feminism can only succeed if we accept diversity. There is no way we can fight against a system as strongly entrenched as patriarchy if...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist in High Heels (feminism and fashion)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012I confess: I love shoes. Especially when they’re high. Until they wore out, my go-to faves were a pair of black leather ankle boots with dangerously high heels. They were actually pretty comfortable...
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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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#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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