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?
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On women’s issues, men are quoted overwhelmingly more often than women.
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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life:
“Saucy Feminist That Even Men Like” — May 7, 1971 issue of LIFE.
Well, okay. What a headline, LIFE.
Is this real?!
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 the neighborhood!
Do Google searches foretell an increase in divorce rates?
Fascinating.
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:
* This is What a Scientist Looks Like
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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“All of us have stories of being told, outright, ‘We don’t hire women’ or ‘We have our woman.’”
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.
How NPR Became A Hotbed For Female Journalists (via @thedailybeast)
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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.
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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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.” —
Could Women Have Saved Penn State? - The Daily Beast
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40 Under 40: Business's hottest rising stars -
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.
