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Why are killers usually male? It’s a question worth exploring when the emergence of female terrorists could make the media even more prone to gloss over the maleness factor in U.S. mass killings.
The list of things I learned while working for Women’s eNews as a reporter for four years is long and one that I could update every day. Every single action we can take moves us forward in a task that is immense.
Let’s stop the latest talk of male and female brains before it goes much further. We don’t want to put transgender people in the same old sex-role binds that have caused so much harm in the past.
Hillary watching is a good way to catch gender bias in action, as a recent Time magazine piece about her being post-menopausal shows. But other women, not running for president, can also find plenty in our own working lives. Here’s how it hits me.
After all this time, maybe we don’t have the answer because it’s the wrong question. Better to wonder: Can we achieve alignment?
The Bible Belt’s culture of values, like abstinence-only education and marriage inequality, has created a huge market for this film, which celebrates male dominance in the sack and elsewhere.
If you’re among the females of the species who draws back in revulsion from “Fifty Shades of Grey,” take heart. The more equality we women enjoy the more we have in common with other primates: We prize males who can be our loving cooperative partners.
Along the miles of transcontinental pipeline being built to transport oil from the tar sands of Canada, women are fighting the project. One put her body in front of a bulldozer. Another is challenging eminent domain seizure of her family’s land.
For the country that glows like a beacon of women’s progress in North Africa, the government’s first shelter for survivors of domestic violence finds it lagging far behind neighboring Morocco.
In the face of government inaction, health groups and medical organizations are intensifying their warnings about the harm posed to women and babies by environmental contaminants.