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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Legacy Can Be Found in Everyday Life. Read: What Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught me about being a stay-at-home dad Her litigation wasn’t about a series of isolated inequities, though: Ginsburg’s core argument was that “equal protection” under the law, as promised by the Fourteenth Amendment, covered discrimination based on sex.

One unconventional but shrewd strategy she used was to focus on how such discrimination harmed men. “Rather than asking the Court to examine inequalities facing women, where nine men were very unlikely to be sympathetic, she asked them to look at inequalities affecting men, because she thought it was more likely that they would recognize those as problematic,” Michele Dauber, a law professor at Stanford University, told me. This attention to the law’s treatment of men was not merely strategic, but also a component of Ginsburg’s larger legal project of demolishing the norms that steered women toward caregiving and men toward work. - The Washington Post. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes.

When broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it.

“This,” said the professor, “is alleged to be man’s first attempt at a calendar.” Toksvig and her fellow students looked at the bone in admiration. “Tell me,” the professor continued, “what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities, Little Help from Dads. TOKYO — The paperwork never ends for Yoshiko Nishimasa.

There are the meticulous logs she must fill out every day, not to mention the pages of work she carefully checks and approves with a personalized stamp. She even keeps daily records of conversations, activities and meals. But none of this bookkeeping is for her job as a marketing professional. A Marketing Campaign Finally Took Aim at Men – Member Feature Stories. Hey, women!

You should feel a little bit bad about your body, just enough to want to change it (are you “beach bod” ready yet?). You should also love your body and accept it as is. Your hair? Going gray is a sign of wisdom, but use this dye so you’ll still feel attractive. A Marketing Campaign Finally Took Aim at Men – Member Feature Stories. I’m With Her. And Her, and Her, and Her. – Member Feature Stories. A minor miracle has happened overnight, and most of us haven’t noticed.

So stop for a moment and look: As I write this article, everyone officially running for the Democratic nomination is a woman. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was the first to formally announce her run, in late December. Not long afterward, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) came out with a suspiciously presidential-looking book and book tour; sure enough, reports from “sources close to her” said Harris would be announcing her own candidacy on or near Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) hired a new set of aides and leased a large building in Troy, New York, which is expected to serve as her campaign headquarters; the staffing decisions, in particular, were reported by the New York Times as “a sign that [Gillibrand] is all but certain to join the race against President Trump and that her entry may be imminent.”

Sure, men are going to join the Democratic primary eventually. How cooking and cleaning transformed a violent man. Image copyright Elaine Jung A grassroots intervention programme is trying to reduce domestic violence in Rwanda by teaching men how to do household chores, and a recent study has suggested it is having a positive effect on communities.

Muhoza Jean Pierre used to beat his wife. He saw her as someone he married to just have children and and look after them. Why All-Female Reboots Do Not Work [Storycraft] – Matthew Kadish. What Is A Reboot?

When it comes to cinema, a “reboot” is defined as the refreshing of a previous narrative by making a new start or creating a new version. This is simply the concept of taking a familiar story, ignoring all that came before it, and telling it in a different or updated way. The very first instance of a reboot from Hollywood came in the form of the Tarzan franchise, based on the books by author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Male feminists inside Uganda's police strike out at killing of women. How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women. The suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular understanding of the struggle for women’s rights and will no doubt serve as a touchstone for commemorations that will unfold across the United States around the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.

The world's most dangerous countries for women 2018. Marvel feminism: Real or comic fantasy? Image copyright Alamy Marvel's newest superhero movie Ant-Man and the Wasp is hitting US cinemas this Friday.

While it may be surprising in 2018, this is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to have a female character in the title - Wasp is a woman. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced plans last month to have more female superheroes than male. It's a huge shift for a franchise that has previously been criticised for its lack of female representation. In 10 years and 20 MCU movies so far, not a single film has been led or directed by a woman. Image copyright Getty Images They've either been fronted by men or adopted the Smurfette Principle. The Smurfette Principle typically describes a cast that consists entirely of men aside from one woman, such as Black Widow in The Avengers. The myth of the 'failed female movie' Until this woman stood up, English wives had no rights to see their children or even get a divorce.

Documenting Child Marriage for Over a Decade—and Still Going. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair has been photographing the issue of child marriage for 13 years.

Her work on the topic was featured in the 2011 National Geographic magazine story “Too Young to Wed” (which is also the name of the nonprofit she founded in 2012 that advocates to end the practice). I wondered how Stephanie has sustained her coverage for so long—if she’s kept up with the girls she’s photographed, who she surrounds herself with, how the issue has evolved, and if she ever needs to take a break. BECKY HARLAN: When was your first brush with the reality of child marriage? STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: I first encountered child marriage in Afghanistan in 2003. I was horrified to learn that several girls in one province had set themselves on fire.

The Lack of Women in Leadership Is All My Fault – Per Grankvist. You will recognize the narrative.

When knowledgeable, intelligent, talented women take their seats as morning show guests this International Women’s Day, the discourse will play out the same way it did last year. And the year before that. First, the host will summon the latest survey proving there are still very few women on the boards of major corporations, and that there are still way more men than women in the C-suite. The girl who sabotaged her own wedding. 15 Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries. The starkest and most damning graphic about how our culture works I’ve seen in a long time.… 112-Dutt. 100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen. Image copyright Getty Images Hollywood is failing women when it comes to representing gender on screen, according to BBC analysis.

Fewer than half of the 89 films named best picture at the Oscars have passed a common measure of on-screen female representation known as the Bechdel Test. A movie passes the Bechdel Test if there are at least two named female characters that have a conversation with one another about something other than a man. This conversation needs to happen just once for it to pass. The research also shows that a greater percentage of best picture winners passed the Bechdel test in the 1930s compared to the current decade. Recent winners such as Moonlight, Gladiator and Slumdog Millionaire all fail the test, along with two of this year's best picture nominees, teams from BBC 100 Women and More or Less have found. Dunkirk, set during World War Two, doesn't have any named female characters.