November 2012
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Rachel Simmons: How to Repair the Wage Gap? Teach... →
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October 2012
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“‘Life-work balance’ is a nonsense term. The idea that I have to segment work and...”
– NY Times: Housecleaning — Provided by the Boss? In Silicon Valley, Perks Come Home. «awesome»
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“Women are increasingly the bread-winners in the family. This is not just a...”
– President Obama, speaking in support of equal pay for women, and highlighting his signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which improved the ability of women to sure their employers for pay discrimination. (via blogofhorses)
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September 2012
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Newsweek Women Throw Stones at Glass Ceilings -... →
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August 2012
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One more thing about Nora
In my mind, what she said meant this: In feminism and in writing and in life, righteous indignation alone—divorced from action or a sense of the absurd—will not be cute for long. It will ripen, and it will rot. And who among us likes to clean up rot?
—The wonderful Sarah Ball, on what Nora Ephron told us. She put it better than anyone, it’s stuck with me since she wrote it, and it...
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“In the early ’90s, it was grunge, everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette...”
– ‘How To Be A Woman’: Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not? : NPR (via blogofhorses)
Truth.
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July 2012
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June 2012
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“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in...”
– The always brilliant and wry Nora Ephron, in a 1996 Wellesley Commencement Speech, which is worth reading in its entirety.
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“I’d been the one telling young women at my lectures that you can have it all and...”
– WHY WOMEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL (The Atlantic)
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Did Men Really Invent the Internet? →
So begins the lead of this New York Times piece, about the gender discrimination lawsuit shaking Silicon Valley. Kind of an odd way to start a piece about sexism, no?
—Lawsuit Shakes Foundation of a Man’s World in Tech
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May 2012
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April 2012
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Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
barackobama:
plannedparenthood:
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
Welcome to...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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November 2011
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“At the time, the explanation [for an off-color joke Paterno made about beating...”
– Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast
(via notadinnerparty)
October 2011
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40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars →
angelawublog:
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...
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jesseellison:
“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...
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Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World →
nlebrun:
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...
September 2011
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The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks... →
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“It’s that whole flowery sundress, nerdy horn-rims, bicycle basket,...”
– 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.
READ THIS
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“It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can...”
– 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.
(via newsweek)
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Is Marriage for White People? →
A controversial new book suggests that interracial marriage may be a solution for middle-class African-American women who can’t find a suitable black husband.
August 2011
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I find women with big brains to be sexy- does that... →
cheatsheet:
A commenter responds to our review of Erotic Capital, a new book that argues that women should use their sex appeal to level the playing field at work.
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