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
"At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating his wife] easily satisfied JoePa supporters—who’d become used to this kind of banter. But in the wake of 40 counts of sexual assault against Paterno’s longtime defensive mastermind, Jerry Sandusky, the toxicity of that testosterone-steeped sports culture, and the role it might have played in this scandal, isn’t very funny. The comparisons between Penn State and the Catholic Church may have become too many to count, but perhaps the biggest one is so obvious we don’t see it: Football, like the priesthood, is one of the few places in our culture where being a woman is actually more sacrilegious than saying you’re going to go home and beat one."
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Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast
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I was clicking through the slideshow today, and around #10 (Sid Sankaran of AIG) I realized that I hadn’t seen a single woman.
So I kept clicking. No. 11, Sergey Brin of Google. No. 13, Ryan Seacrest of…RYAN SEACREST??? OK, whatever, sure. No. 18, Daniel Elk of Spotify…
It took me 20 clicks to find one woman—Marissa Mayer, long-time Googler.
On Fortune’s list of the 40 hottest business stars under 40—a list that, with a few ties, actually includes 45 people—there were six women! That’s 13 percent! That’s shocking to me!
Now, I like Fortune. I’ve also never bothered to count the number of women on any list before. (But now that we’ve started—Fortune’s covers for this feature give us 3 men and 3 women, and the homepage for the list features 4 women, 2 men, and what appears to be Mark Zuckerberg as a baby.)
But I’m just pretty sure there are more than six women who might qualify for this list of FORTY-FIVE people.
“I wonder what it would be like if I were a male rock star? Maybe I just could be like ‘fuck it’ and keep someone hanging there. But, I don’t know… It just doesn’t feel right. And I definitely don’t have groupies. No, the evening always ends with me and my friend in my hotel room watching romantic comedies going, ‘We’re never getting married.’”
This was fun.
Check out Jesse’s profile of Florence Welch in this week’s Newsweek.
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.”
Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual Love Your Body day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation.
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No matter how much we may think we still feel the yoke of housework, electric appliances like the vacuum helped fling open the window for women back in the early part of the 20th century.
Think of it! No more dragging heavy Persian rugs outside to beat the bejesus out of them for hours on end. Finally! Some help cleaning the endless soot that settled from gas lamps and fires.
Oct. 3 marks the 112th anniversary of the patent for the first vacuum.
Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this week’s NEWSWEEK:
I worry (as someone who was an adult in the 1960s) that young people will see The Playboy Club and think that this is what life was like back then and that Hefner, as he also says in his weird, creepy voice-over, was in fact “changing the world, one Bunny at a time.”
So I would like to say this:
1. Trust me, no one wanted to be a Bunny.
2. A Bunny’s life was essentially that of an underpaid waitress forced to wear a tight costume.
3. Playboy did not change the world.
More: A history of the Playboy club (photos).
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"It’s that whole flowery sundress, nerdy horn-rims, bicycle basket, put-a-bird-on-it tweeness of the forever child. Also, she records indie rock albums and makes a point of singing a lot in the new show — tra-la-la-la — which only makes it more awful."
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Hank Stuever explains what he finds so awful about Zooey Deschanel in his look at the horridness of female characters in television’s fall lineup - The Washington Post. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou, Hank Stuever. “Put-a-bird-on-it tweeness.” Perfect.
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"It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can sympathize with us, but not in our own community."
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Craig Soignet, the father of the girl who roiled a small town in Texas when she refused to cheer for the boy she told police had raped her. The girl was kicked off the cheer squad.
Three years later, cheerleader rape case still stirs flames in Silsbee, Texas.
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