This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Yes! Janet Yellen Will Be First Female Fed Chair. How Long Until We Can Stop Talking About Her Gender? by Hanna Rosin of Slate.com says President Obama nominated Janet Yellen to be the head of […]
Is it fair to our children to begin to create their online presence before they even have the wherewithal to ponder what that means? I was in college before social media culture took hold. I’m grateful for that because it meant that not only were my peers and I of an age to approach online […]
Empowering as these campaigns may be for some women, have we taken the focus off of the cancer itself? A physically fit, presumably young woman sits perched on the edge of a wooden chair, her back to us, naked save for a pair of black underwear. Her arms reach for the sky; strung between her […]
Is the Affordable Care Act perfect? Of course not. But for women who have been systematically discriminated against for decades by health insurance companies, it’s a victory, says Laurel Hermanson. A couple of weeks ago I visited the doctor twice, once for lab work and then for a follow-up with my doctor. Both times, I […]
Khadijah Costley White’s sister was diagnosed with an incurable disease six years ago, and needs help with every aspect of daily life, including eating, bathing, shopping, and getting dressed. The Affordable Care Act helps her with none of that. Last Friday, I woke up to a desperate text from my sister: “I am truly overwhelmed […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. You Might Not Be Beautiful The Way You Are by Katy Waldman of Slate.com reports on a New York City girls project, saying that Bloomberg’s worthwhile self-esteem campaign needs a new slogan. 2. First Comes […]
It’s impossible to be human, live in our culture, and not be biased, says Soraya Chemaly. Mahzarin R. Banaji was as an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University in the late ’80s when she was involved in memory experiment, the end of which involved asking subjects, based on a list of names, which people […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. It seems like a noble, enlightened thing to say: “I don’t see race.” And in a sense it is, right? I mean, race isn’t a biological fact, it doesn’t determine the content of a person’s character, and it really shouldn’t matter. But I’m tired of […]
