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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!

Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying  health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Notes on Gender Inequality, Part 1

The New York Times recently published an item about economic gender inequality that’s quite appalling. The report states that “nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job.” It continues, [...]

'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture

The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]

Empathy Belly: Great with Child?

I found this article on broadsheet about Empathy. Catherine Price writes “Here’s something that sounds like a joke, but isn’t: the Empathy Belly. “It’s a pregnancy simulator designed to “enable men, women, teenage boys and girls to experience over 20 symptoms and effects of pregnancy.” (The Empathy Belly is not to be confused with the [...]