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• Female Animalization, A Collection of Images

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 483
  Female animalization is the depiction of women as animals, or as hybrid human-animals. It’s in fact a subgenre of female objectification , which is itself a subgenre of dehumanization (see also here ). Depicting a woman as an animal means taking away her human characteristics and can lead to gender ...
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• Sexism, A Collection of Images (2)

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 483
  (See the previous collection of sexist images  here ). More on sexism , feminism , gender discrimination and women’s rights . Other collections of human rights images are here .        (this example is in fact also a case of objectification )     (an unusual example of sexism ...
  1 week ago

• Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony [Leftovers]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 807
  • Meet Mackenzie, a child prodigy who can type 119 worlds per minute (the average professional adult types 50-70 wpm). "It makes me feel powerful," she said. "Id like to get to at least 200." •  • A Florida judge refused to block the prosecution in Casey Anthony s murder trial from seeing the death penalty ...
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• Underwear and Wage Discrimination?!

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 426
  Most women have faced discrimination in one form or another. I’m old enough to tell tales of blatant wage discrimination, simply because, as one boss told me, “You are a woman in a man’s field.” I literally laughed out loud at the time thinking he was joking, but his affront at my laughter made me [...]
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• Just too far

  
  F-Words — Authority: 407
  "James Chartrand" seems like a huge jerk. Theres been a story circulating the web about blogger "James Chartrand" coming out as a woman, complete with a sob story about how it was just the glass ceiling keeping her stuck at the level of mediocrity, and all of a sudden, she changed the name under which she ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stop the Bleeding: Title IX and the Disappearance of Men’s Collegiate Athletic Teams

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 121
  Title IX , originally conceived to protect women from gender discrimination, has had the unfortunate and unintended effect of significantly reducing opportunities for male athletes to compete in their sports at the collegiate level. The various Department of Education opinion letters interpreting Title IX and its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants: Because It Pays Better

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 667
  Whether you’re surprised by this story or not is beside the point, which is that this kind of thing and variations on the same thing happen with shocking regularity.  From Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants : You know me as James Chartrand of Men with Pens , a regular Copyblogger contributor for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Copyblogger Author Practicing What She Preaches about Compelling Post Titles: "Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants"

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 524
  The author known as James Chartrand of Copyblogger explains why it’s still not a “post-feminist” world. You know me as James Chartrand of Men with Pens , a regular Copyblogger contributor for just shy of two years. And yet, I’m a woman. This is not a joke or an angle or an analogy — I’m ...
  2 weeks ago

• Toys"R"Us charged with gender discrimination of children

  
  e Transgender : A Transgender Resource & Community — Authority: 117
  By Liv Staff Writer According to the youngsters, the Toys"R"Us Christmas catalogue featured “outdated gender roles because boys and girls were shown playing with different types of toys, whereby the boys were portrayed as active and the girls as passive”, according to a statement from Ro. The group’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• What is This Graph About? (3)

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 483
  The answer is here . More mystery graphs . Posted in discrimination and hate, equality, quiz, what is this graph about? Tagged: discrimination, facts, gender discrimination, graphs, human rights, human rights facts, mystery graph, statistics, wage gap
  2 weeks ago

• Did computer problems doom company’s case?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  Companies are often required to preserve a lot of electronic documents before going to court. And deleting that information can often cause big legal problems. A surgical resident sued her employer for gender discrimination. She complained to hospital officials that she was being treated unfairly because of her ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Politics of the Body

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 483
  ( source ) (Thanks to Eva Declercq for unwittingly suggesting this topic). The politics of the body , or “ body politics ”, is a concept, originally used by early feminists I believe, to describe government policies and laws and cultural or social practices used by society to regulate and control the human ...
  3 weeks ago

• And All The Blacks Are Men, Pt. 301283

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 624
  by Guest Contributor Shani-O, originally published at PostBourgie Much is being made of Michael Luo’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times which explains how simply being black often hurts job seekers: Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race ...
  3 weeks ago

• No, Its Not Your Imagination; Were Biased Against Women

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 789
  Filed under: Economy , Woman Up Readers of the Washington Post recently chose a male over a female writer to be the Posts new guest pundit. Thats not necessarily news, because his writing may very well be better than hers. But, the question that many of us have is this: did the winners gender influence the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Human Rights Facts (167): Positive Developments for Gender Equality in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 483
  I mentioned some positive developments for gender equality in the U.S. in two previous posts ( here and here ). Particularly hopeful is the increasing level of education of women: they now earn 57% of bachelor’s degrees, 59% of master’s and 50% of doctorates. There’s also the increasing participation of women ...
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• Searching and failing to find maternity coverage in Colorado

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 626
  In advance of a bill in the state legislature that would require Colorado’s insurance companies to cover maternity, The Colorado Independent searched for non-employer-based maternity health insurance. How did it go? It was unbelievably frustrating. Posing as a 34-year-old woman from the high country whose COBRA ...
  3 weeks ago

• OH: Two Counties add Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to Anti Discrimination Laws

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 148
  Discrimination in Akron and Summit County based on sexual orientation or gender identity is now illegal — sort of. Both Akron and Summit County councils passed ordinances Monday that added these to their protected classes. But Akron City Council — after nearly an hourlong debate — carved out ...
  4 weeks ago

• Democratic women of the Senate make their case for health reform

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 626
  Today, some of the women of the U.S. Senate took to the chamber floor and made their case for health reform. Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski reiterated what many women around the country have been saying and what many, many more women know: that health reform is an equal rights issue in addition to being a human ...
  4 weeks ago

• Katie Redding and David Sirota talk insurance industry discrimination and clean water

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 626
  Colorado Independent writer Katie Redding joined Progressive Talk 760 AM host David Sirota this morning to discuss her recent reporting on insurance industry gender discrimination and pending national Good Samaritan water cleanup legislation. Redding dialed in from her chilly open-air back porch in Leadville, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Compromising National Security to Address Feminist Insecurity?

  
  Fight for gender equality — Authority: 410
  When I was a little girl, I used to witness my brothers playing cricket with the other boys in the neighborhood. They seemed to have such a good time, bowling, batting, fielding, catching, screaming, falling over and rolling in the dirt. I insisted on playing with them even though they warned me that it would hurt. ...
  4 weeks ago

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