January 2011
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“Working overseas, I just assumed that overt sexism was a Third World phenomenon....”
– Jennifer Siebel Newsom, director of the forthcoming documentary Miss Representation.
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“Isn’t the reason we need these feminist sites because women’s issues and news...”
– The Forward’s Elissa Strauss on why we should celebrate the demise of Broadsheet.
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Davos Institutes Quotas (And We Become the...
Quotas are practically a dirty word. But this week, organizers of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos—where the (usually white, male) ruling class gathers to solve the world’s problems—announced that sponsors must bring at least one woman in their five-person delegations. And the world gasped. But the more we’ve thought and written about women and...