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#vivelafeminism: Feminist activists today should still look to ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ – @ConversationUK

The 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...

#vivelafeminism: Remembering a turning point for feminism – @MsMagazine

No 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...

#picturethis: London – photographed by the young and homeless – @guardian

The Guardian is hosting a new exhibition of images by young people affected by homelessness – all of whom have been learning new camera skills at Accumulate. Photographers’ names and captions (and ...

#patriarchiesrealign: The simple truth about the gender pay gap (Spring 2017) – @aauw From introduction to report:  In 2015, women…

#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...

#capitalismwilleatitself: Just “lean in”. How ‘corporate feminism’ oppresses women – @eve_rebecca

(Faux-empowerment, neoliberal, micro-led, woman-blaming subjugation.)•••Image: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: ‘Want it enough, say these these wealthy women, and you can achieve anything.’ Photograph: Pa...

#vivelafeminism: “No matter what machines do to you:” Navigating anti-blackness in academic institutions – @thefeministwire

Image: Gloria Richardson pushing away a national guard bayonet in Cambridge Maryland in 1963. From: EMERGING FEMINISMS, “No Matter What Machines Do To You:” Navigating Anti-Blackness in Academic Inst...

#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking…”

#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...

#womenslives: Women and childcare first: where Osborne’s axe has fallen

Way back in deepest darkest 2010 when austerity was a mere twinkle in George Osborne’s eye, something was already abundantly clear: women, including those working in the public sector, would be dispro...

#todayin: racism: the uncomfortable state of being Asian in tech

We know a lot (well, quite a bit) about being a woman in tech. This is a fascinating post on being Asian in tech - you are be default part of the “model minority”, which is good, sort of. ...

#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Women, know your limits: cultural sexism in academia (Savignya, 2014)

Abstract: Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even ...

The fact is, like it or not, you still live a world where gender matters. Where gender controls not just the entire course of your life – but the lives of women all over the world. Every second, a chi...