Book excerpt: 100 TIMES: A MEMOIR OF SEXISM
“It’s not that my life has been exceptionally plagued with sexism. It’s that it hasn’t.”
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Male Activists Urge Donald Trump to Change Attitude Toward Women
A letter signed by three dozen men last month is asking the president to support his country’s women, and those around the world, by being a “model man.”
How Mainstream Comedy Has Helped Normalize Trump’s Misogyny
These jokes not only give people permission to laugh at Trump’s sexist comments, they can distance us from the horror and trauma of related violence.
Misogyny Runs Rampant at Republican National Convention
While misgivings over a presidential candidate are a healthy part of an engaged political process, this year’s GOP convention has showcased numerous instances of sexism thinly veiled as political critique.
It’s Not Easy Being a Girl
Everything from getting ready for school to getting movie snacks with a friend is just harder for a girl, writes Sarah Groustra, and that’s why we need feminism.
Fetal Sex Testing Won’t Fix India’s Daughter Shortage
Female feticide may be illegal in India but old structures of patriarchy combine with medical technologies to keep it going. We need basic awareness campaigns, not government mandates that will first invade a woman’s privacy and then backfire.
Minnesota OKs Workplace Bills; Asian LBT Targeted
Minnesota’s governor approved a package of bills aimed at improving conditions for women in the workplace. Also this week, a report shows that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in some Asian countries are encountering abuse and discrimination without any protection of the state.
Male Athletes Speak Out Against Sports Sexism
“This culture may not be our fault, but it is our problem to fix,” athletes at a prominent private high school in Massachusetts wrote in the school paper last year. Rob Okun features them as hope kindlers in this excerpt from his anthology “Voice Male.”
Calling All Female Brains: Stop the ‘Neurosexism’
Research now finds sex-linked differences in the neural connections. So what? The media’s rush to pop-psychologize the findings fuels retro gender stereotypes that only raise the obstacles to workplace advancement.
Grassroots 1960s Push Reformed Women’s Health Care
The women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s transformed the doctor-patient relationship and yielded the novel concept that women can take control of their own health, says Laurie Edwards in this excerpt from “In the Kingdom of the Sick.”
