That is a photo of Hillary Clinton at the Moghul-era Badshahi mosque in Lahore during her recent trip to Pakistan. I am always bothered by pictures like that that show female Western officials covering their hair. Sure, the reason is to observe the customs of Islam. And, in fact, Clinton was praised for doing so. [...]
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For some lighter, weekend blogging, I dug up some old sexist advertisements. On one hand, the ads are so ridiculous that it’s pretty funny. On the other hand, its depressing to think that such sexist stereotypes were so prevalent. First up, check out this TAB commercial: Be a mind-sticker, ladies! Keep your shape! The second [...]
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Neither Emily nor I are fans of using labels to describe different aspects of the feminism movement. That was reinforced to me when I read an article titled “Ecofeminism: our last great hope?” by Allan Irving, who is an environmental professor at King’s Univerity College of the University of Western Ontario. Although I had never [...]
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Katha Pollitt has another wonderful article in The Nation, which is titled “Working Women: Strength in Numbers.” One of the issues she discusses is the recent report by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress that says that women, for the first time, now make up 50 percent of the paid workforce. In response [...]
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Writing in the United Arab Emirates “The National,” columnist Shoba Narayan, who grew up in India and went to college in the United States, has an interesting view on the differences of feminism in the “West” compared to the “East.” She says: Feminism in the East is – and has to be – different from [...]
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Yesterday’s World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report ranked Turkey 129th out of 134 in women’s equality. The only countries ranked lower were Saudi Arabia, Benin, Pakistan, Chad, and Yemen. Today, I saw an opinion article in the Turkish publication called “Hurriyet – Daily News & Economic Review,” which has the header of “In the [...]
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Most people who know me know how much I love the Golden Girls– and how much I adored Bea Arthur. So yesterday I got a flood of emails in my inbox about this news article: It turns out that Bea Arthur left $300,000 in her will to the Ali Fornay Center, a nonprofit that helps [...]
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The issue of abortion is pitting the Catholic Church against Rep. Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy had criticized the church’s opposition to health care reform legislation, saying: I can’t understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human [...]
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The World Economic Forum today published the new Global Gender Gap Report. It purports to assess countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities. It bases the rankings on economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health [...]
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Mike wrote an off-topic post a few days ago about Rep. Alan Grayson’s outbursts. At the time, his comments were mostly just silly and unproductive. But the latest news circling Capitol Hill is that Grayson called an aide to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a “K Street whore.” A Grayson spokesperson is now defending his [...]
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