“The Erasure of Maya Angelou’s Sex Work History”

“In interviews, Dr. Angelou used the term “prostitute” to refer to her previous employment without rancor or shame. She spoke candidly to her family about it. She told her mother, brother, and son she would redact the information from the book…

“The Fast Show — The Amazing Invisible Woman!”

“Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain”

“The moment we start talking about wounded women, we risk transforming their suffering from an aspect of the female experience into an element of the female constitution — ​perhaps its finest, frailest consummation. The ancient Greek Menander once said: “Woman is…

“A How to Guide for Male Feminists (with the caveat that I don’t know what I’m talking about)”

“I’m learning all the time from different feminists about what they believe a man’s role in feminism should be. I listen. I take notes. I act accordingly. There’s no…

“Why PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi Can’t Have It All”

“I’m serious, if you don’t develop mechanisms with your secretaries, with the extended office, with everybody around you, it cannot work. You know, stay at home mothering was a full time job. Being a CEO for a company is three full time jobs rolled into one. How can you do…

“Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students”

“In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science…

“How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You: The BeyHive”

“Is Beyoncé a feminist? Is she a womanist? I don’t know. To me she is a cyborg. “Cyborg writing,” Donna Haraway tells us, “is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as…

“What Elliot Rodger Said About Women Reveals Why We Need to Stamp Out Misogyny”

“Solve Sexism With Overconfidence, Hope and Changing Your Brain”

“So when the authors call it a “confidence gap,”…

“Should Paid ‘Menstrual Leave’ Be a Thing?”

“The fact is, menstruation is not debilitating for most women. But for up to 20 percent of women, period pain interferes with daily activities just as surely as a nasty cold or flu. Ample paid sick leave would seem to take care of the problem just as well without forcing women to…

“OVERCOME YOUR PROGRAMMING AND BE A BETTER MAN”

“Wanna know what the best way to avoid being ignored at a party is? Stop wondering why no one’s showing interest in you and ask someone else how they’re doing. Stop sitting in the corner brooding because no one gets it and go out of your way to make someone else feel welcomed…

“Mind the Gap: How One Employer Tackled Pay Equity”

“The program’s goal was to ensure that pay for female-dominated professions was keeping pace with male-dominated ones of equal importance. If administrative assistants were considered as valuable as groundskeepers, the thinking went, the women who jotted down phone messages…

“The Woman Who Helped Change How Police Treat Transgender People”

“Shaw, whose driver’s license identifies her as female, was searched by men and put in…

“Drunk History — Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks”

“Dear Harvard: You Win”: An essay about sexual assault policy

“Dear Harvard: I am writing to let you know that I give up. I will be moving out of my House next semester, if only — quite literally — to save my life. You will no longer receive emails from me, asking for something to be done, pleading for someone to hear me…

“Wheels of Change: The Bicycle and Women’s Rights”

“Some husbands threatened divorce. Doctors were quoted in popular women’s journals such as Peterson’s Magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, claiming the bicycle had detrimental effects on women’s reproductive organs and menstrual cycles…Companies…

“5 Simple Ways Men Can Better Respect Women”

“Socialization is hard, y’all. We’re all unlearning, relearning, deconstructing, and constructing meaning. We’re all trying to figure out how to be better people and work toward a healthier future. That is to say: We’re all screwing up. But if there are a few easy, small things…

“Women Post Awful Tales of Workplace Harassment on Secret Sharing Site”

“The best case scenario for many victims of workplace harassment is that, at the very least, the offending coworker faces some sort of consequences and learns from the experience. Worst case? Ostracization…

“’Amazing Spider-Man 2' And Its Self-Sabotaging Gwen Stacy Plot Twist”

spoilerspoilerspoilerspoiler“The phrase “woman in refrigerator”, coined by future comic book writer Gail Simone 1999, referred to the tendency of comic books to do harm upon the girlfriends, wives, or female siblings of a male hero for the sole purpose of…

“Survivor: MIT grad student Samuel Brinton remembers ‘ex-gay’ therapy”

“During his first one-on-one appointment, the session leader―who Sam specifies was a “religious therapist” and not a doctor―told Sam, “I want you to know that you’re gay, and all gay people have AIDS.” The…

“I don’t care if “not all men are like that”, or, Why I assume the worst”

“Here’s why we always assume the worst: because every time we’ve tried to assume the best, we have found ourselves proven wrong. Because we have tried to give the benefit of the doubt, and we’ve seen it…

“The Fault in Our Schools”

“Jordan Klepper and Jessica Williams give separate advice to men and women on how to stay safe and avoid sexual assault on college campuses. (5:33)”

“Ugandan women protest anti-miniskirt mobs”

“The Conscientiousness of Kidspeak”

“The point of the “likes”s and other tics is to supply the information that there is a lot more information not being offered, and that the whole thing is held at a certain circumspect remove. It didn’t happen exactly this way, and, of course, one might quibble with…

“10 Words Every Girl Should Learn”

“For example, male doctors invariably interrupt patients when they speak, especially female patients, but patients rarely interrupt doctors in return. Unless the doctor is a woman. When that is the case, she interrupts far less and is herself interrupted more. This is…

“Here’s why women have turned the “not all men” objection into a meme”

“”Not all men.” Fine. But pointing out individual exceptions doesn’t help us…

“Why I Can’t Watch ‘Game Of Thrones’”

“Even if, for some reason, sexual violence is truly central to the “Thrones” universe, it doesn’t need to be shown as often or as intently as it is. At best, it obscures the plot and at worst, it makes a real evil look attractive…The “Game” universe forces us into…

“The Male Privilege Checklist”

“Pointing out that men are privileged in no way denies that bad things happen to men. Being privileged does not mean men are given everything in life for free; being privileged does not mean that men do not work hard, do not suffer. In many cases – from a boy being bullied in school, to…

“Sex Crimes That Shouldn’t Be”

“Laws written ostensibly to deter people living with H.I.V. from intentionally infecting others are over-broadly applied, often along racial lines… Such comprehensive pronouncements have made it possible to convict hundreds of H.I.V.-positive people for non-criminal behavior ranging from sexual…

“The Language of Dude Feminism”

“Common to all these messages is that men CAN rape, hurt, buy women, catcall or what-have-you, but they SHOULDN’T. Men, we…

“Insufficient Punishment”

“WHY CAN’T A SMART WOMAN LOVE FASHION?”

“Once, I brought a pair of high heels to a literary event but left them in my suitcase and wore flats instead. An old friend said, “Wear what you want to; it’s your work that matters.” But he was a man, and I thought that was easy for him to say. Intellectually, I agreed with him. I…

“How to increase emotional intelligence in girls”

“We All Are the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls”

“Headlines in the media exclaim: Schoolgirls forced into so-called marriages to militants by their captors. Outrageous isn’t it? But forced into marriage is a sanitized way of avoiding the truth. The girls were reportedly sold (some reports say for $12) into a life of non-stop rape”…

“What your science teacher told you about sex chromosomes is wrong”

“There has been a concerted effort by some activists to urge the study of sex differences at every level in every system in every tissue in every cell in every model organism. And their motto is “every cell has a sex.”… But there’s another kind of sex bias…

“The Virgin-Birth Advocate”

“The idea upends previous notions of sex and gender, but as a single mother, Prasad says she is used to challenging people’s preconceptions about parenting. In fact, she believes innovative reproduction techniques could be a powerful social equalizer. For example, using the stem cells inbone…

“Maren Sanchez and the Gender Gaps No One Is Talking About”

“Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Oregon found that “Girls in the United States had significantly higher individual behavioral regulation than boys.” Not only did they appear to have more self-control but teachers and parents expect them to, so…

“With Eyes on a Possible Clinton Run, Debate on a 2-Woman Ticket”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/us/politics/with-eyes-on-possible-clinton-run-questions-on-room-for-other-women.html?hp

“Here’s How We Make Advertisers Quit Abusing Photoshop to Manipulate Women”

“By focusing on public health, this bill sidesteps the question of whether, for example, a cosmetic company is technically committing fraud by showing the digitally smoothed face of a model in an ad for anti-wrinkle cream. In our commerce-obsessed…

“10 Things We Should Be Talking About On This International Women’s Day”

“Instead of making grim generalizations about nebulous and negative disparities between men and women, let’s take advantage of this opportunity to pinpoint the specific places where there’s room for improvement this International Women’s Day.”…

“The Politics of Women’s Health”

“When I entered midlife, I experienced some of the same kinds of frustrations that I did as a woman giving birth. Once again, I found myself regarded by the medical profession as a patient in need of treatment. I was encouraged to view the natural process of menopause as a negative change…

“Investors prefer entrepreneurial ventures pitched by attractive men”

“Across a field setting (three entrepreneurial pitch competitions in the United States) and two experiments, we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared…

“Girl can’t enjoy a banana?”

“The Problem With Confidence”

“So my first reaction when reading of female underconfidence is not simply that this is a problem. It’s to ask, how can we inject more of this self-doubt and self-policing into the wider culture. How can each of us get a better mixture of “female” self-doubt and “male” self-assertion?”…

“Why are American women dying in childbirth?”

“In almost every other industrialised nation, comprehensive maternal health care is inexpensive or even free. In Britain, midwives usually visit mothers at home two weeks after birth. In the Netherlands, more than 16 percent of births occur at home under the care of a midwife and…

“Don’t Call Me Beautiful (And What to Say Instead)”

“Sure, compliments on appearance can be nice in the appropriate context, but there’s also a good chance that I’m trying to communicate with you or focus on something else or maybe just go through my day without being objectified…there is a…

“Colo. Clerk Recalls Issuing Same-Sex-Marriage Licenses — In 1975"

“On a visit to StoryCorps, Rorex tells her friend Sue Larson that two men came to her office and asked for a marriage license. Rorex, now 70, says it was the first time she’d ever met any openly gay people.

“To The Dudebro Who Thinks He’s Insulting Me by Calling Me a Feminist”

“Or, to put it another way, after some random dudebro has attempted to insult me on…

“Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes”

“We demonstrate that a natural disaster can, merely by being symbolically associated with a given sex through its assigned name, be judged in ways congruent with the corresponding social roles and expectations of that sex…As with other forms of implicit bias (23, 30, 31)…

“Dear Men, Here is a New Kind of Fantasy”

““We know,” say the New Men, ”that some media tells you to take what you want without permission. We know that…

“JILL ABRAMSON AND THE TIMES: WHAT WENT WRONG?”

“No one is served well by this story — not Sulzberger, Abramson, or Baquet, who cannot have wanted his elevation to come with controversy. Nor is it good for the institution of the Times."…

“What Is This Child Doing in Prison?”

“It’s not enough to recount the torment she has endured. If we want to stop the cycle of brutality, we have to ask why the heavens rained down on this child. I believe it is because Jane is transgender.”…

Feminist high school boys ask: Are you a feminist?

I wish I had had this class in high school — so cool.

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Guante: 10 Responses to the Phrase “Man Up” (Older Version)

“On masculinity, homophobia, and cutting the grass”

“Perhaps the reason I have no interest in getting married or having children is because my dad led me to believe it’d be a cruel nightmare filled with drills and hammers and screwdrivers and wrenches and fixing sinks and unclogging toilets and touching car parts I still…

“A Week of White House Progress on Campus Rape”

“The report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, entitled Not Alone [PDF], details steps it will take to prevent sexual assault and support survivors on college campuses, using recommendations it gathered during a 90-day review. Among other…

“Reddit Women Fight Trolls With Hilariously Gross Period Talk”

“rather than sitting back and waiting until their subreddit was overrun with MRA trolls, the TXC users went on the offensive. Starting last weekend, users began posting and upvoting the hell out of posts that went into graphic detail about “period shits” and…

“NFL Cheerleaders Finally Have Something to Cheer About”

“When Oakland Raiders cheerleader Lacy T. filed a class-action lawsuit against her team in January — alleging that she and her fellow Raiderettes were paid less than minimum wage, illegally fined for minor infractions (like gaining five pounds), and generally…

“What Does Manhood Mean in 2013?”

“What’s striking isn’t the lack of consensus on what defines masculinity now, but the utter confusion about how to go about doing so. That’s because America is finally getting around to having the conversation about what it means to be a man that, decades ago, feminism forced us to have…

“Kevin Spacey Answers Questions that Female Celebrities Get Asked”

“Eight Ways to Reclaim Mother’s Day”

“Beginning less than a decade after she’d won her fight to establish Mother’s Day, she took the other side. Jarvis, who didn’t have kids of her own, ended up spending all of her inheritance and the rest of her life fighting the abuse of the holiday. She organized boycotts and threatened…

“FEMINISM IS OPTIMISM”

“To be a feminist means that you believe that you have the power to enact positive change on the world. To be a feminist means that you believe that people are inherently good, and when shown that there is another way, they will choose the more just one.”…