Activism
Male Activists Urge Donald Trump to Change Attitude Toward Women
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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.”
rape culture
How Mainstream Comedy Has Helped Normalize Trump’s Misogyny
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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.
2016 elections
Misogyny Runs Rampant at Republican National Convention
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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.
Teen Voices
It’s Not Easy Being a Girl
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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.
India
Fetal Sex Testing Won’t Fix India’s Daughter Shortage
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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.
Abortion
Minnesota OKs Workplace Bills; Asian LBT Targeted
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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
Male Athletes Speak Out Against Sports Sexism
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“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.”
Commentary
Calling All Female Brains: Stop the ‘Neurosexism’
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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.
Health
Grassroots 1960s Push Reformed Women’s Health Care
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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.”
Feminism
Feminist and Queer Movements Need to Rethink
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Sexism-based exclusion runs rampant in these movements, says Julia Serano in this excerpt from “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive.” In part this is thanks to false assumptions that we need to overcome.