A feminist group (FEMEN) in the Ukraine has staged a number of events to raise awareness of women’s rights. Many of the events have included taking off some of their clothes. (See also this article from the Kyiv Post.) Most recently, a group of four women from FEMEN entered an election site in Kieve (Kyiv) [...]
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ABC News has an article titled “Chivalry Lives! Arizona Teacher Requires Boys to Have Old-Fashioned Manners in Class.” It is about a male Arizona high school Latin teacher who has instituted a policy in his classes that “all of the boys in class would be expected to act like gentlemen around the girls.” Among his [...]
Filed under: Education, Stereotyping | Tagged: Chivalry, Erin Matson, Etiquette, National Organization for Women | 1 Comment »
Today’s Olympics gold medal women’s hockey game matches Canada against the United States. Everyone had expected the two teams to get here and the game should be exciting. (MSNBC at 6:00 eastern.) However, a blog in Newsweek is speculating that the Olympic committee might look to eliminate women’s hockey from future winter Olympics. (See also [...]
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A recommendation from the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists could lead to warning labels being attached to photoshopped pictures of models. The college cited research evidence that suggests the media’s role in the existence of eating disorders in girls. The group also called for a ban on underweight models in London’s fashion week. The argument [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Health, International, Pop Culture, Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: Advertising, anorexia, beauty, eating disorders, fashion, psychology, sexism | Leave a Comment »
The Utah state House & Senate have both passed versions of a bill that would criminalize a woman’s “intentional, knowing, or reckless act” leading to a miscarriage. The bill uses the terminology “illegal abortion,” and specifically notes that a woman cannot go to prison for a legal abortion. The impetus for such a measure came [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Health, Law, Reproductive Rights | Tagged: Abortion, Law, miscarriage, pregnancy, pro-choice, pro-life, Reproductive Rights, utah | Leave a Comment »
Good news from the U.S. armed forces. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to allow women to serve aboard submarines. Women have been permitted to work on surface ships and aircraft since 1993, but had been banned from submarines because the Navy believed “the very cramped conditions in submarines precluded both sexes working together.” Congress [...]
Filed under: Workplace | Tagged: Navy, submarines | 1 Comment »
Last Tuesday, President Obama told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that he would make recess appointments if Republicans didn’t allow his nominations to go through. Because of that, the Senate cleared 27 nominees on Thursday. You would think that the success of his threat would encourage Obama to take other actions that wouldn’t go over [...]
Filed under: Politics, Workplace | Tagged: Craig Becker, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB | 2 Comments »
I’m surprised that the far-right-wing anti-immigration zealots in the United States (led by chairman emeritus Lou Dobbs–who is no longer quite such a zealot now that he is thinking of running for public office) haven’t tried this. In Kashmir, legislators have reintroduced a bill that would deprive Kashmiri women of the right to own and [...]
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South Korea’s National Human Rights Commission has issued a report on the problems encountered by North Korean women when they defect. The report is based on interviews and a survey of 274 defectors that were taken last year. The ultimate goal of the women is to reach South Korea. However, to do that, virtually all [...]
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Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy (who is black) had an interesting column this week on the definition of racism. Much of the column was focused on the remarks by Tom Tancredo at the recent Tea Party rally. Milloy gave his opinion that the remarks were racist and that the press has not called out Tancredo [...]
Filed under: Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: chris matthews, Courtland Milloy, Harry Reid, racism, Tom Tancredo | 4 Comments »
