French women are fighting body hair stigmas on social media. French women have been posting pictures of their armpit and leg fuzz on Twitter this week, in an attempt to fight the stigma surrounding female body hair.
The hashtag #LesPrincessesOntDesPoils (Princesses have hair) became a top trending topic on the social media site last night, spawning over 25,000 mentions and a heated online debate. The campaign – which was named after a body-positive Tumblr, ‘Les Princesses Ont Des Poils’ – was started by 16-year-old artist Adele Labo (@adelelabo). After apparently “suffering enormously” because of the unrealistic beauty standards at her school, she began encouraging users to send in images of their natural hair on Twitter earlier this week. Within days, the hashtag was overflowing with photos of girls with unshaven leg hair and grown-out pits. How Tess Holliday Is Changing Beauty Standards.
Challenging outdated beauty standards in the fashion industry is all in a day’s work for Tess Holliday.
Her recent People magazine cover dubbed her “The World’s First Size 22 Supermodel” and Vogue Italia named her one of the world’s top plus-size models, but Holliday is so much more than that — she is a light in the dark for women who don’t see themselves represented in media (and especially not in fashion). Holliday founded Eff Your Beauty Standards, a social-media movement where women can share positive images of themselves and find support from others all over the world, and she has modeled for brands like Torrid, Yours Clothing, Benefit Cosmetics, Monif Clarke, H&M, and Addition ELLE, oftentimes being the first plus size-model ambassador for brands. “I think that I have a career because I never gave up,” Holliday says. Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show. Three decades after they first began exposing inequality in the art world, a group of anonymous mask-wearing feminist activists called the Guerrilla Girls are to get their first dedicated UK show.
The group will this summer survey more than 400 European galleries to explore whether museums are reflecting the full diversity of art and art history. #FreeTheNipple controversy hits Durban. Durban - A Durban woman who was snapped at a popular nightclub in an outfit that bared her breasts has stirred up a heated debate on social media - with some critical of her but others hailing her as an ambassador of the “free the nipple” movement.
The movement is named after the 2014 movie by Lina Esco, who also founded the movement. It has resulted in protests in several countries including America, the UK and Iceland where the call is growing for nipples to be treated equally for men and women. WHAT IS FREE THE NIPPLE? Trend Forecasting: Feminism. Designers Weigh In on Dressing Melania Trump – WWD. It’s the hot-button fashion question of the moment: Which designers would dress future First Lady Melania Trump if asked?
In an industry that swung heavily and vocally Hillary Clinton’s way during the presidential election, many are avoiding the question like the plague. But not all. Here, several designers offer thoughtful assessments on where they stand. Men still paid vastly more than women on average in UK – study. Men are still paid vastly more than women across many jobs and regions despite firms “tinkering around the edges” to try to close the gap, according to a report.
Where men and women are doing the same job, they are usually paid almost the same – although men still have a slight advantage, earning an average of 1.6% more. However, the real gap is caused by the scarcity of women at the highest and best-paid levels of industries such as oil and gas, technology and life sciences. The biggest pay gap – 34% – was in the east Midlands, followed by the south-east at 30%, the north-east at 28% and the West Midlands at 26%.
The study, conducted by the business advice group Korn Ferry Hay and based on research into about 500,000 UK workers, found that firms were offering incentives such as flexible working instead of tackling the problem head on. Ben Frost, a pay data specialist at Korn Ferry Hay, said the figures showed that overall across the UK men were paid far more than women. Top French offices stop work in support of gender pay gap protest. Staff at some of Paris’s most high-profile political and cultural offices stopped work at 4.34pm on Monday in solidarity with a protest against women being paid less than men.
Women’s rights campaigners at the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses had urged female workers to down tools from that time. They suggested that doing so until the end of the year – in effect taking 38.2 days off – would highlight the global wage disparity that experts say will not disappear until 2186. “From 7 November at 16.34 [and seven seconds] women will be working ‘voluntarily’,” Les Glorieuses wrote, referencing research that women work for free, compared with men, for a certain time of the year. The empowerment trap: Ivanka Trump and the art of co-opting feminism. Here’s our reality: white women’s votes helped lead Donald Trump to victory.
We can expect, in the days ahead, to see Republicans pointing to these votes as proof that women love Trump, and that the openly misogynist president-elect really does have their best interest at heart. What will make this placation dangerous is that the incoming administration has a ready-made symbol to prop up their lie: Ivanka Trump. Trump’s dutiful daughter brands herself as a sort of Sheryl Sandberg-lite: she launched a Women Who Work campaign, was the catalyst behind her father’s vague maternity leave proposal, and carefully curates her social media accounts to present herself as a glamorous but accessible working mom. And now, with a role on Trump’s transition team, Ivanka will continue to be presented as a salve for her father’s overt sexism and racism. Indeed, for most of the presidential campaign, Ivanka functioned as a telegenic, articulate shield against accusations of misogyny leveled against Trump.
Gender pay gap closing but still wide. Ben Harvey - The West Australian The latest official report into gender equality in the workplace has shown corporate Australia has made inroads but the chasm between what men and women earn is still huge.
The new study by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, an Australian Government statutory agency charged with improving equality in the workplace, found women account for half of the workforce but only 16.3 per cent of chief executive roles and 37.4 per cent of all management roles. Women earned 77 per cent of the male average full-time income. The average full-time female employee made $26,853 less than her male counterpart last financial year. Senior managers who were women got $93,884 less. The scorecard, the third compiled, reflected improved equality indicators, specifically narrowing pay gaps and more women in management roles. Key figures last financial year compared with 2015-16 include: The gender pay gap was 23.1 per cent (down 1.6 percentage points) Tackling gender inequality 'could add £10tn to world economy' Governments must take the lead on reducing gender inequality to unlock almost £10tn of additional global economic output, a report argues.
Closing the gender gap on employment, pay and business leadership is an important source of growth in an environment of persistently sluggish figures, UBS Wealth Management says. If countries increase national female participation rates to match the best in their region it could add $12tn (£9.9tn), or 11%, to the world economy by 2025, a recent McKinsey study found. But a report by the World Economic Forum found the gender gap had widened in the past four years and predicted it could take 170 years for women to reach parity. To remove obstacles, governments need to make hard choices and think long-term by providing adequate maternity and paternity leave and high quality subsidised childcare as well as promoting employment policies that encourage women to succeed, UBS said in its report, Women as a force for economic change.
Immoral hazard: the gender inequality of risk. Whilst the international media reported that over 800 people died in Haiti due to the impact of the recent Hurricane Matthew, a gender breakdown was not given even though your chances of surviving a natural disaster often depends on your sex. This inequality of risk is increasingly important in a world of more frequent and bigger disasters and crises, with almost 100 million people affected by 346 disasters in 2015 alone. And climate change drives these numbers ever higher. One of the most important angles to this is gender and risk, and the unequal way boys and girls, women and men, experience and are impacted by crisis. This is not news. Ashley Graham Now Has Her Own Barbie [Video] Ashley Graham is one of the most prominent plus-size models in the industry — maybe the most. She’s landed coveted campaigns like the SI cover spread, launched her own clothing line, and continuously acts as a vocal advocate for body awareness and acceptance.
Malala Yousafzai Wants To Be The Prime Minister Of Pakistan - Motto. Malala Yousafzai may only be 19 years old, but she’s already accomplished more than most people aspire to in a lifetime. In addition to being a staunch advocate for girls’ education rights around the globe, the Pakistani native is the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize and she also has a bestselling memoir under her belt. Now, she’s revealing one more goal: to one day become the prime minister of Pakistan. Speaking at the Investing in the Future conference in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Yousafzai said she hopes her latest dream would enable her to help girls and women more fully reach their potential in her home country. “But when I saw women role models, it broadened my vision,” Yousafzai said according to Gulf News. “I saw Benazir Bhutto as a woman leader [who was] twice the prime minister of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto became the first democratically elected woman to lead a majority-Islam nation as Pakistan’s prime minister in 1988.
Women are calling the Trump campaign about their periods.