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What Will Change for Women Under President Donald Trump - How the Election May Affect Women's Rights. Well—it happened. Donald Trump is our next president. Now that the votes have been tallied, the concession speech delivered, and the tears have been cried (#truth), it's time to think about what a Trump presidency will look like for us nasty women.

Here are all the changes Donald Trump's administration could enact that may affect women's rights. 1. Roe v. Wade Could Be Overturned Yes, abortion is somehow *still* on the table for men politicians to discuss. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Trump's plan includes nominating pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, starting with a nominee to replace Antonin Scalia, who died in February. Let's not forget our next vice president, Mike Pence. 2. In the same letter to pro-life leaders, Trump said that he will be "signing into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide. " In addition, Trump has said he will make the Hyde Amendment permanent when he becomes president. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Social class and its terrible impacts.

The women fighting back against unequal pay. Normally when we think of unequal pay it is in relation to a man and woman doing the same job for a different wage. But it can also be about how we value the work women traditionally do. Care workers, cashiers, and cleaners are often among some of the lowest paid people in the country. When I left school, I started working full time in a residential home for the elderly.

I was 16 and didn't expect to get paid very much, but I was struck by the fact that women who had worked there for years were only paid a few pence an hour more than I was. These are the women who care for your parents and grandparents in their final years, who cook for them, wash and dress them, and hold their hand when they are confused or upset. I remember myself and another carer sitting with one woman as she was dying. Every day we would brush her hair, freshen her dry mouth with a lemon swab, and just talk to her. This week, around 1,800 teaching assistants have gone on strike in Durham over a pay dispute.

Yes, Pantsuit Feminism Is Real Feminism. Photo Credit: © Jenny Warburg On November 8, if America doesn’t make history by electing its first former beauty-pageant owner and reality-show star as president, it will do so by electing the first woman to occupy the Oval Office. A woman in a suit; a suit that has pants. Much is made of Hillary Clinton’s sartorial choice of the matching jacket and slacks as her signature look. But whether the subject of celebration or mockery, the response stems from the same fact—that a woman in public life who shucks nylons and pumps in favor of the freedom of movement long afforded men, well, that’s a woman who is claiming power. Some might claim that the pantsuit is merely a symbol of feminism, one that can belie the motives of the woman who wears it. The battle to unbind women from corsets and crinolines and bustles and busks was the work of feminists.

Image from an 1897 stereoview by Strohmeyer & Wyman, New York, N.Y. On Election Day 2016, many women will choose their attire with intention. Trump Is Proof: Feminism Isn’t Free. Millennial women have grown up taking the fruits of feminism for granted—and Trump’s presidential win is the harshest wake-up call possible. College-educated millennial women grew up taking certain fruits of previous waves of feminism for granted. We had the right to choose. We could confidently pursue equal pay, we could enjoy respect in fields that were traditionally male. We could opt to live independently without being labeled spinsters, we could express our sexuality freely. We could reasonably expect to go to an office, or a party without being groped. But enough of the country to elect a president doesn’t agree with those assumptions. The 2016 narrative wasn’t set up to end this way.

But voters did not reject him. The only shred of positivity to be taken from this rabid badger of a campaign comes with its own disturbing negative implication. It’s certainly possible that Democratic voters got cocky. To Have and Have Not: Inequality Hits Luxury | Intelligence | BoF. LONDON, United Kingdom — In a small Central American country, a little-known law firm found itself at the centre of history’s biggest data leak earlier this year. The Panama Papers exposed the secretive off-shore holdings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, laying them bare for all to see. The fallout has implicated 12 national leaders, forced one to resign and beckoned millions more into a debate on the gap between the world’s “haves” and “have nots.” North of Panama, inequality has become one of the defining issues of a presidential election in the world’s largest consumer market.

US voters, increasingly aware of the growing concentration of wealth among the country’s so-called “one percent” have rallied around candidates on both ends of the political spectrum who pledge to restore the American Dream: that equality of opportunity is available to all. The causes of inequality are many. As a result, the income gap between the rich and everyone else continues to widen. Black Mirror's horrific people-rating app is now a reality | WIRED UK. Netflix Are you a 4.8 or a 4.2? Rate Me, the horrific but entirely believable popularity app featured in Black Mirror, is now real. Sort of. The tongue-in-cheek-app has been released by Netflix to promote season three of Charlie Brooker’s near-future nightmare anthology. It’s a pretty simple setup: click Get Your Rating, type in your Twitter handle and despair at why you’re only a 3.4.

You can also rate others, doling out two stars to over-eager colleagues and five stars for perfectly crafted social media posts about sunsets and cocktails. We’ve been here before. Charlie Brooker on pigs, prime ministers and where Black Mirror will take us in series three Charlie Brooker on pigs, prime ministers and where Black Mirror will take us in series three If you haven't seen season three of Black Mirror stop reading now to avoid spoilers. The app is based on Nosedive, the first episode of the new series of Black Mirror starring Bryce Dallas Howard as Lacie Pound.

The crisis of masculinity in contemporary cinema. At the 2015 BFI London Film Festival, Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari's Le Chevalier took home the prize for best feature. The film sees six men, on a boat, competing for the arbitrary title of "The Best in General. " Their comparative and futile assessments range from "who can assemble this piece of furniture the fastest," to "who can cum the quickest"; tasks they furiously rank each other on to determine who is the best "man" among them.

If you're thinking -- "no, not another film about straight white men acting like morons" -- you'd be mistaken; the film is in fact a searing satire of failing masculinity. Tsangari subverts cinema's traditional "male gaze" with a female led vision of male idiocies. And whilst on the surface the film is acerbic and zany, it is sub-textually framed by the context of tremendous economic depression in Greece, a country suffering £320 billion in debt and a 24% unemployment rate. Le Chevalier King Cobra.