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?
(Source: jessbennett)
Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
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!
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)
(via jessbennett)
good:
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)
(via jessbennett)
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
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).
(Source: newsweek)
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.
In which the “Mancession” turns into a “Mancovery”
Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn
And what it has to do with gender parity. A few statistics:
Women currently hold:
* 16.6 percent of the 535 seats in Congress
* 23.5 percent of the seats in state legislatures
* There are 6 female governors
* Of the 100 big-city mayors, 8 are women
(Source: jessbennett, via statette)
Women in Film by the Numbers
This infographic is based on a study done by the USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism. The study “examined the gender of all speaking characters and behind the scenes employees on the 100 top grossing fictional films in 2008. A total of 4,370 speaking characters were evaluated and 1,227 above the line personnel.”
Women, Schwomen
For all the ballyhoo about this being “the year of the woman,” the number of women in Congress looks certain to decline for the first time since 1978. What does it mean? Our colleague Eleanor Clift reports.
