Politics and sports and women. Again we have the intermingling of the powerful men in a world sports organization with women athletes and politics. Last week, in an Olympic qualifying round in Amman, Jordan, FIFA (the world soccer governing body) officials refused to allow the Iranian national women’s team to compete in a match with [...]
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In an effort to improve Islam’s image in Great Britain, an Islamic organization began placing ads in the London Underground and on taxicabs. Remona Aly, the campaign director of the Exploring Islam Foundation (the group responsible for the ads) says that she hopes the campaign will help counteract “the often inaccurate and negative stereotypes of [...]
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M.I.A. is a popular and controversial musical artist from England, of Sri Lankan origin. Though many of us remember her music from years ago (I have to say, her song “Galang” is still one of my favorites), her 2007 album Kala got a lot of play. The single “Paper Planes” was sampled everywhere, from commercials [...]
Filed under: Feminism, International, Politics, Pop Culture, Race/Ethnicity, Stereotyping | Tagged: M.I.A., music, palestine, race, racism, Violence | Leave a Comment »
Today NPR released a few graphics depicting the gender and race pay gaps. As you can see, though the gap has been closing over the years, progress has been slow. There are still significant racial gaps. But its interesting to see that gender gap persists for all races. The accompanying article is worth a read, [...]
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In a recent New York Times blog article, photographer Zed Nelson describes what he sees as globalization’s increasing impact on standards of beauty. “Globalization hasn’t just given us Starbucks in Beijing and shopping malls in Africa,” he said. “It is also creating an eerily homogenized look.” The increasing reach of American or Western advertisements, tv [...]
Filed under: Advertising, International, Pop Culture, Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: beauty, beauty pageants, cosmetic surgery, globalization, International, race | 2 Comments »
By this point, I’m sure most of you have read about the upcoming changes to Texas history books. In case you haven’t, here’s a snippet from the NYT: After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and [...]
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The National Center for Health Statistics has come out with a report that shows Caesarean births in the United States are at an all-time high. One third of all women now give birth via C-section, a rate that has been increasing over the past decade. The procedure raises risks for both mother and baby, and [...]
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The official U.S. unemployment rate is 9.7 percent. However, it is nearly 16 percent among African Americans and 12.4 percent among Hispanics. The impact of those unemployment figures on unmarried African American and Hispanic women is particularly bad because their median “wealth” (assets minus debts) is an astoundingly low $100 for unmarried African American women [...]
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With the ongoing debate (endless and ineffective) about the impact of global warming–and the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile–this report is timely. The UK-based Women’s Environmental Network has just released a report titled “Gender and the Climate Change Agenda.” The main conclusions are that “[g]lobally, women are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change [...]
Filed under: International, Race/Ethnicity | Tagged: Gender and the Climate Change Agenda, Global Warming, Women's Environmental Network | 1 Comment »
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