Delayed Sex, or Safe Sex?

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Emily

There’s an editorial today in the New York Times, summarizing a recent study that seems to have favorable findings for abstinence-only education. The study focused on 622 African-American middle schoolers, and found that those who received abstinence-only teachings were less likely to have had sex in the follow-up period than those who received more comprehensive [...]

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The Increase in Gender-Segregated Classrooms

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Mike

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance magazine has an article on the rise of gender-segregated classrooms in America.  It includes this worrisome sentence: “In 2002, only 11 public schools in the United States had gender-segregated classrooms. As of December 2009, there were more than 550.”  The movement is called the Single Sex Public Education [...]

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Feminist Culture in NYC

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Emily

One of the things I’m loving the most about living in NYC is the abundance of creative and progressive-minded options for art and culture. For instance, I live in Brooklyn, about 3 blocks from the Brooklyn Museum, which contains the Sackler Center for Feminist Art. It’s wonderful to know that I’m a short walk from [...]

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Quick Hit: Sweden Awards a $1.5 Million Grant to the University of Nebraska to Promote Feminist Points of View on Economic Issues

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Mike

Thanks, Sweden.  This is good news for feminists.  The Swedish International Development Agency has awarded a $1.5 million grant to the University of Nebraska’s International Association for Feminist Economics.  The grant is to promote  “feminist economic research and to inform policymakers, economists and others about feminist points of view on economic issues.”

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What “Pregnancy Crisis Centers” are Giving Out as “Advice”

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Mike

NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia issued a report about its year-long undercover investigation to learn about the 52 crisis pregnancy centers in Virginia.  What its investigators learned is astounding.  Here is a video giving some of the “advice” given by the centers to the investigators asking for information on pregnancy and abortion.

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Pew Research Center Survey on the “Economics” of Marriage

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Mike

The Pew Research Center has a new survey about the changing role of gender in the “economics” of marriage.  Pew’s article starts by saying: The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth. These unequal gains have been accompanied by gender role reversals [...]

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Some Colleges May Discriminate Against Women in the Admissions Process

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Mike

It’s well known that far more women than men attend college.  Later this week, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is expected to approve a study of 12-18 colleges in the Washington, DC, vicinity to see whether colleges are favoring men over women in the admissions process.  It already seems clear that at least some [...]

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Quick Hit: First Woman Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Emily

Two Americans, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work in economic governance. Ostrom is now the first woman to win the Nobel for economics. She is also the 5th woman this year to be given a Nobel Prize- the highest number of female winners in the award’s history. [...]

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Research Study: Mothering and Feminism

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Mike

We received a request from faculty members Mindy Erchull and Miriam Liss of the psychology department at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  They are conducting a research study on “mothering and feminism” and say that they “are looking for feminists, non-feminists, mothers, and non-mothers” to participate in the study, which is an [...]

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