Until women are respected as fully human and fully unique, we will continue to be placed on pedestals and in boxes that define us by our gender and determine our destinies. A friend of mine recently shared a Vox article written by a self-proclaimed progressive dude titled, “Democrats should start accepting pro-life liberals like me” […]
Young men think sexism is a thing of the past because that’s what we’ve allowed them to think and, in some cases, actively taught them. During the past few weeks there has been a lot of news coverage of a Pew Research Center study revealing that more than half (56%) of men surveyed think sexism […]
Roughly 63% of working mothers agree with the statement “Sometimes I feel like a married single mom.” Many women know all too well how it feels to try to accomplish the suffocating expectation of succeeding as a full-time professional while also being a full-time mom. They know the true meaning of catching conference calls on the […]
It turns out that the strongest weapon in the fight to give girls equal rights is … a working mother. Years ago, when I was 36, I fell over, dropped like a dead weight for no reason at all. BOOM. At the hospital, they checked for everything (including HIV, as I had been working as […]
We can’t fully understand how patriarchy works and how it can be dismantled—both inside the United States and out of it—without looking at trends in gender gaps worldwide. On Tuesday, the Economist highlighted the release of the World Economic Forum’s 9th annual Global Gender Gap Index, which maps gender gaps on economic, education, health, and political […]
Are we too focused on who does the dishes and who will change the diapers and not enough on making big structural changes? On Monday—the day after Sweden held elections where the country’s Feminist Initiative political party, with the help of the likes of Pharrell Williams and Abba’s Benny Anderson, won some 3.1% of the […]
Here’s the truth: Making space for more female heroes opens a corresponding space for more female villains. A famous footballer has been arrested on domestic violence charges after a family gathering got out of control, BleacherReport revealed on Saturday. That’s unfortunately not an uncommon headline, until you take into account that that footballer is a […]
