The Portly Dyke on PDA

I think this post from The Portly Dyke is something everyone needs to read.  As a follow up from posting about last Friday’s Day of Silence, this personal testimony complements things very nicely.  It’s a longer read, but seriously, read the whole thing if you have the chance.  The most powerful part for me was [...]

Disparity in College Admissions?

This Times article, titled Affirmative Action for Boys, takes a look at what colleges are doing during the admissions process to make up for the fact that there are more qualified women applying to college than qualified men, and that the women who do apply have more diverse interests and are more likely to be [...]

Fat discrimination worse for women

I’ve been wanting to blog on size acceptance and health for quite a while.  I’ll just start by mentioning this study that shows fat discrimination to be (1) bad for everyone, but (2) particularly bad for women.  Of course this all makes sense with society’s focus and scrutiny often being on the female body.  From [...]

Pregnancy Discrimination

Women who choose to work and have a child are often discriminated against–accused both of being poor mothers for working, and of being poor workers for mothering. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that incidents of pregnancy discrimination keep rising, which is a disturbing trend.
I wonder if this might be a product [...]

Women and the Economy

We hear news stories quite often about the wage gap, about the glass ceiling, about women being expected to spend a disproportionate amount of their income, etc.  However, this article about how women have been affected–nay, targeted–by discriminatory lenders was entirely new to me.  Allen Fishbein of the Consumer Federation of America found that, even [...]

Guest Post–Women on the Bottom?

Here is a guest post from our trusty reader and commenter Ali. (I am actually copying it from her comment to an earlier post about the primary, with her permission.)She brings up a great point about how the visual culture of the media reveals sexist tendencies. Pictures say a thousand words–and the cover [...]

Injustice Watch 2008

Sometimes I feel like I have gone back in time.  No, not in the Marty McFly-in-a-Delorian kind of way, but in the “Jesus Christ We Are Chipping Away at Civil Rights Holy Fucking Shit!” kind of way.This article was sent to us by Caitlin Madden (I think–correct me if I am wrong, and please sign [...]