EQUALITY MYTH

The XO Factor: When Did Email XO-ing Become the Standard Among...

jessbennett — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:14 -0500

The XO Factor: When Did Email XO-ing Become the Standard Among Powerful Working Women? (The Atlantic)

Rachel Simmons: How to Repair the Wage Gap? Teach Negotiation in Schools.

jessbennett — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:38:41 -0500

Rachel Simmons: How to Repair the Wage Gap? Teach Negotiation in Schools.

womenofthe112th: Infographic #3: Geographic distribution of the...

jessbennett — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:55:47 -0500

womenofthe112th:

Infographic #3: Geographic distribution of the Women of the 112th Congress

Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher It wasn’t until...

jessbennett — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:41:08 -0500

Women of Protest: Suffragists picket outside the White House in 1917

Women of Protest: Conferring over ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington

Woman of Protest: Lucy Burns

Woman of Protest: Dora Lewis

Woman of Protest: Alice Paul

Women of Protest: A Feminist History Refresher

It wasn’t until 1920 that women were granted suffrage, but it was 1917 when members of the National Women’s Party — Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and others — picketed outside the White House, burning copies of Woodrow Wilson’s speeches and demanding the right to vote. What resulted — mass arrests (most for “obstructing traffic”), unlawful imprisonment and bloody beatings — became known as the Night of Terror, though it’s fair to say most among my generation don’t know it.

The Night of Terror took place on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Workhouse Prison, in Occoquan, Virginia, ordered his guards to teach the suffragists a lesson. For weeks, the women’s only water had come from an open pail. Their food had been infested with worms. But on this night, some 40 prison guards wielding clubs beat the women senseless — grabbing, dragging, choking, kicking and pinching them, according to affidavits recounting the attacks.

coolchicksfromhistory: November is Native American Heritage...

jessbennett — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:27:02 -0400

coolchicksfromhistory:

November is Native American Heritage Month

All photos by Edward S. Curtis via the Library of Congress, original captions:

Top: O Che Che, Mohave Indian woman, Qahatika girl, Selawik Woman

Middle: Chaiwa—Tewa, Klamath woman, Cayuse woman

Bottom: Wisham female, Tsawatenok girl, Yaqui girl

In light of today’s news, a few iconic Newsweek covers...

jessbennett — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:56:46 -0400

In light of today’s news, a few iconic Newsweek covers from the 60s and 70s.

"‘Life-work balance’ is a nonsense term. The idea that I have to segment work and life is based on..."

jessbennett — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:24:05 -0400

“‘Life-work balance’ is a nonsense term. The idea that I have to segment work and life is based on some archaic lunar-calendar thing.”

- NY Times: Housecleaning — Provided by the Boss? In Silicon Valley, Perks Come Home. «awesome»

"Women are increasingly the bread-winners in the family. This is not just a women’s issue, it’s a..."

jessbennett — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:17:10 -0400

“Women are increasingly the bread-winners in the family. This is not just a women’s issue, it’s a family, a middle class issue, and we have to fight for it.”

- 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)

Singular Beauty: Photographing Cosmetic Surgery Clinics

jessbennett — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:34:00 -0400

Singular Beauty: Photographing Cosmetic Surgery Clinics

Painting the Women of the 112th — Powersuit by...

jessbennett — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:19:48 -0400

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)

Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Sen. Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)

Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-FL)

Rep. Grace Flores Napolitano (D-CA)

Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)

Painting the Women of the 112th — Powersuit by Powersuit

Political portraiture doesn’t often feature women, so artist Emily Nemens decided to paint all 90+ female members of Congress — in watercolor. The result is 47 linear feet of women in power — and a stark display of uniform power suits, bouffant hair, and toothy smiles. Read more

Newsweek Women Throw Stones at Glass Ceilings - New York Times

jessbennett — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:59:55 -0400

Newsweek Women Throw Stones at Glass Ceilings - New York Times

nwkarchivist: Presenting Lynn Povich’s (Newsweek’s first Female...

jessbennett — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:13:47 -0400

nwkarchivist:

Presenting Lynn Povich’s (Newsweek’s first Female Senior Editor) Great New Book On the Landmark Class Action Suit Against The Magazine In 1970. And 40+ Years Later, Read How Her Contemporary Counterparts Question How Much Has Actually Changed.

The case that inspired the blog… out tomorrow from Public Affairs.

One more thing about Nora

jesseellison — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:24:00 -0400

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 deserves a shout-out, even months after the fact.

“I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life....

jessbennett — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:47:09 -0400

“I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life. During your best years you don’t need a husband. You do need a man of course, and they are often cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen.”

RIP Helen Gurley Brown, founder of COSMO

"In the early ’90s, it was grunge, everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the..."

jessbennett — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:28:33 -0400

““In the early ’90s, it was grunge, everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore make up, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque, suddenly they’re the biggest band in the world. … And as you go all the way through the ’90s, the clothes just fall off the women until you get to the year 2000, and Britney Spears is just wearing a snake.””

- ‘How To Be A Woman’: Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not? : NPR (via blogofhorses)

Truth.

Hey Girl, Equality is Sexy: The Woman Behind ‘Feminist Ryan...

jessbennett — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:46:00 -0400

Hey Girl, Equality is Sexy: The Woman Behind ‘Feminist Ryan Gosling’ On Her New Book

Girls to ‘Magic Mike’: Less Heart, More Flesh Amanda Hess on how...

jessbennett — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:39:00 -0400

Girls to ‘Magic Mike’: Less Heart, More Flesh

Amanda Hess on how young girls are charting a new sexual revolution, via Magic Mike GIFs — erasing negative cultural messaging around sex, one ass shot at a time.

Would spaceflight affect her reproductive organs? Would she wear...

jessbennett — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:48:00 -0400

Would spaceflight affect her reproductive organs? Would she wear a bra or makeup in space? Did she cry on the job? How would she deal with menstruation?

—Reporters to astronaut Sally Ride, in 1983, before her first shuttle flight.

NY Times: Sally Ride, Trailblazing Astronaut, Dies at 61

newsweek: Columbia Journalism Review’s July/August cover pays...

jessbennett — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:40:00 -0400

newsweek: Columbia Journalism Review’s July/August cover pays tribute to Newsweek’s 1970 “Women in Revolt” cover.

Nora Ephron’s first job was as a Newsweek “mail...

jessbennett — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:45:00 -0400

Nora Ephron’s first job was as a Newsweek “mail girl” in 1962. In her interview, she was asked why she wanted the job.

“I want to be a writer,” she told the woman.

“Women don’t write at Newsweek,” she was told.

“That was what it meant to be a girl then,” Ephron later told us.

(Photo via the NYT)