EQUALITY MYTH

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Lady Comics: Who Needs Late Night? We’ve Got Tumblr

If you ask a female comedian how social media has impacted her professional life, she will likely respond like Elaine Carroll. “Social media has made my career,” says Carroll, the 30-year-old creator of the Very Mary Kate web series, a spoof of Mary Kate Olsen’s glam life in New York.

Remember just a few years back, when comedians (of any gender) relentlessly chased guest spots at the feet of David Letterman and Jay Leno? Getting a gig on late night was the ultimate career boost, but women comedians had to fight through the prejudices both professional (like infamously misogynist Letterman booker Eddie Brill) and cultural (let’s all try to forget that Christopher Hitchens essay).

But the level playing field of Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr means no one gets between ambitious talent and a potentially receptive audience. All it takes is perseverance, ability, skill, and infinite patience.

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jessbennett:

life:

“Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like” — May 7, 1971 issue of LIFE.

Well, okay. What a headline, LIFE.

Is this real?!

philipncohen:

Do Google searches foretell an increase in divorce rates?

Fascinating.

publicaffairsbooks:

On this Administrative Professionals’ Day, a photo of our author Lynn Povich—who became the first woman senior editor at Newsweek—back when she was a researcher in the Paris office. Lynn’s book, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace, comes out in September.

And we are the NEWSWEEK women who, 40 years after that lawsuit, wrote about what had — and hadn’t — changed for women at NEWSWEEK. Can’t wait to see the full book.

In a room of 25 engineers, only three will be women. Tumblrs aiming to curb the STEM divide:

* IAmScience

* This is What a Scientist Looks Like

* Big Black Glasses

* Malibu Einstein

* It’s OK To Be Smart

Who are we missing?? (h/t ashdryden)

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Y’ALL!
A STORY IN GIFS 

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The Old Girls’ Club sat in a corner of the newsroom the men referred to as “the fallopian jungle,” and swiftly became the broadcaster’s earliest stars. 

nprfreshair:

How NPR Became A Hotbed For Female Journalists (via @thedailybeast)

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danielleh:

good:

Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education Level

Among Americans with some form of post-high school education—a vocational, associate’s, bachelor’s, or advanced degree—men make more than $800 above women’s pay every month. And the gap widens as men and women climb educational ranks. In short, education is valuable, but it’s most lucrative if you’re male.

Read about it on GOOD→ 

Ladies, we have to start negotiating the living shit out of our salaries. Everywhere, every job.

RELATED: Why Women Don’t Negotiate — And What We Can Do About It (Forbes)

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huffingtonpost:

They’re more likely to be seen in sexy clothing (25.8 percent to men at 4.7 percent) and more likely to be partially naked (23.6 percent to 7.4 percent).

Is it time to change that ratio? 

 Women Are Underrepresented, Oversexualized In Top Films: Study

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longreads:

This June, the paper’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., announced the appointment of Abramson and of Dean Baquet, who is black, as the new managing editor. Many who gathered in the newsroom that day were thinking of this history. Not a few women cried. Susan Chira, an assistant managing editor, says that she kept thinking that when she joined the Times, in 1981, manyTimes women were “sad, bitter, angry people who were talented but who had been thwarted.” Editors openly propositioned young women. “I can’t believe how far we’ve come. To see Jill take the mantle, I felt tingling. You have to praise and savor when a woman can earn it through merit. No tokenism here. Jill studied for this job. She earned it.”

“Changing Times.” — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker