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PERSPECTIVE | Fashion puts women on mute
Essay by Robin Givhan. Views expressed are the opinion of the author.
Clothing speaks in awkward monosyllables and eloquent paragraphs, in whispers and shouts. But on the night of the president’s first State of the Union address, the Capitol turned into an echo-chamber of ineffectual fashion Babel.
For a television audience tuned into President Trump’s speech before members of Congress, his Cabinet and invited guests, the sight of (mostly) Democratic women cloaked mostly in black spoke of exasperation, frustration and anger. But ultimately, it was a declaration of impotence. …
The world is ‘another prison,’ she said
The excess of males might have long-term impacts
Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Annie Gowen.
India recently release its country’s annual economic survey, which included a 2017–18 estimate of 63 million women “missing” from its population. It also indicated that 2 million women go “missing” across age groups every year because of abortion of female fetuses, disease, neglect and inadequate nutrition.
Decades of son preference in India have led to the country having 63 million fewer women than it should have. …
MOVIE REVIEW | The film delivers a message that can’t be ignored
‘This is a male institution’
Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Michael Allison Chandler.
For decades, women were employed only in women’s prisons.
That started to change in the 1970s as legal barriers broke down and more women entered the workforce. Now they represent nearly 30 percent of correctional employees, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The category includes officers in prisons, jails, juvenile facilities and community-based facilities.
Taronica White first went to work at a Florida state prison in 1991 when she was 20 years old and a new mother. …
She was able to watch it fly away
‘Why win with less when you can win with more?’
PERSPECTIVE | That thinking is upside down
When the news broke Thursday that the National Gallery of Art had postponed two exhibitions because the artists have been accused of sexual misconduct, reaction from some quarters was predictable.
People slammed the gallery’s management for a rush to judgment and bashed women accusers for being oversensitive snowflakes.
One commenter on The Washington Post website put it harshly: “The National Gallery is now making decisions about exhibitions based on mere accusations of boorish behavior. It has become a witch hunt by a bunch of third-wave feminists who want to rid the world of men.”
That thinking…
Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was a California Democrat
