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
(via jessbennett)
Davos Institutes Quotas (And We Become the Unlikely Defenders of the World Economic Forum)
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 progress, the more we think that the top-down approach is the right one. So we defended their decision here.
Here’s to hoping that this year all those big brains actually get us somewhere.
"You know what also makes me happy? That I’m the first woman editor of Newsweek, which is very exciting. You know that in the 1970s, the women editors of Newsweek launched a lawsuit against the management because there were hardly any women doing anything of any consequence on the magazine. And women’s liberation took over and they hired the great lawyer, Eleanor Norton, and they went to battle for their rights. I feel that it - you know, a merger has created what the lawsuit couldn’t."
— Tina Brown (via)
