Tag: equality
Where Are My Spectacles II: Who Defends Women in the Dept. of Defense?
[trigger warning] What is this? Who defends women in the Department of Defense? Not Republican senators, apparently. When Al Franken brought forward legislation to combat the horrifically hostile and sexually abusive environment found in the Department of Defense and amongst its contractors on October 6th, a block of thirty white men rose up in opposition. [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under government, labor, law, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, social class, social inequality, socioeconomics, work, working conditions.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Part 3
III. The Myth of the Broken Glass Ceiling in the Sciences In 2005, Larry Summers suggested that women might not enter scientific fields as often as men because of “innate differences,” according to this article from the Boston Globe. This infuriated the female scientific community, because scientific studies indicate that women don’t enter male-dominated fields [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under economics, economy, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender equality, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, pay, politics, wage gap, women, women in science, work, working conditions.
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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, [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2009 under culture, discrimination, disrespect, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual difference, sexual inequality, social class, social inequality, socialization, sociology.
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Equality: Not Satanism, Last I Checked
Recently I stumbled upon this website run by that beacon of truth and goodness, the Christian Right. In fine form, they announced at the beginning of the page, “FEMINISM IS EVIL! Beware of the feminists, many are LESBIANS!” Ah, yes, such tolerance and open mindedness is exactly what we have been taught to expect from [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Christianity, God, Satanic, Sex Roles, christian, female empowerment, female leader, female misogyny, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, feminists, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender socialization, gender theory, religion, religious, religious extremists, science and gender, sex, unempowered.
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