Genders, and other gendered things — Medium

Collection edited by Jess Brooks

“Pink Collar”

“In stark contrast to newsrooms, in which women have never exceeded 38 percent, public relations operates as a solidly pink-collar sector…of the creative industries and comprises a labor force that is currently over 85 percent female. The palpable distaste for PR practitioners that continues to swell — spearheaded by the very same members of the media with whom publicists theoretically enjoy a symbiotic relationship — requires, then, a deeper look at how gendered assumptions about work continue to shape our contemporary notions of creative labor under capitalism.”

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“Older Moms Take Heart: You May Be More Likely To Live Longer”

“We think that a woman’s ability to have children at a later age is evidence that her reproductive system is aging more slowly, and that…the rest of her system is also aging more slowly,” says Thomas Perls Long Life Family Study, an international effort to figure out the secrets of a long and healthy life. Been thinking recently about how there is a certain level of societal distrust for people who aren’t in traditional families, and the sort of hedonism that is attached to the image of the college student or the early career/unmarried/20-something.

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“Is Softball Sexist?”

“Spalding proclaimed baseball to be not just all-American but also all-male: “A woman may take part in the grandstand, with applause for…the brilliant play, with waving kerchief to the hero,” he wrote in his 1911 book “America’s National Game,” but she couldn’t actually play: “Base Ball is too strenuous for womankind.”… Last year, 474,791 American boys played high school baseball, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations; 1,259 girls did. In some cases these girls were the only ones in their entire state.

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GENDERED MARKETING | The Checkout | ABC1

This inspires me to try to switch to gender-neutral soap. (such a sad state of affairs) There should be an International Buy Outside Your…

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“Jennifer Lawrence And The History Of Cool Girls”

“Cool Girls don’t have the hang-ups of normal girls: They don’t get bogged down by the patriarchy, or worrying about their weight. They’re…

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“EPISODE 46: COMMUNICATION AT THE OFFICE”

“A lot of women run up against communication problems at work — everything from a failure to be heard in meetings to giving orders to…

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“Why teaching “respect” won’t end violence against women”

“Sure, Oden is “taking responsibility” for what he did. Congratulations to him. But he still did it. He still punched a woman in the face…

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“Gender loses its impact with the young”

“The survey reveals that “gender is less of a definer of identity today than it was for prior generations. Rather than adhering to…

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