Yellen: Fed Chairman, or ‘Chairwoman’? It is increasingly likely that, within the next few months, the Federal Reserve will get its first-ever female leader, Janet Yellen, who is currently the vice-chair of the central bank. If that happens, Yellen will also be the first Fed leader to have to deal with the awkwardness of having her official job title be "chairman" instead of the more gender-appropriate "chairwoman. " Why not change this? We call female members of Congress "congresswomen," and most of us have stopped using gendered job titles like "stewardess" and "secretary" in favor of "flight attendant" and "administrative assistant.
" There's no good reason that, in 2013, the top position at the world's most powerful monetary policy body should have a male-gendered title. And yet, there it is, right in the Federal Reserve Act: It might seem like a minor issue of political correctness, but gender-neutral and gender-specific titles are just one of many ways that official bodies can signal their commitments to gender equality. Bullied teen Felicia Garcia jumps to death in front of train. Felicia Garcia, a 15-yr-old Staten Island high school girl, jumped to her death in front of a train after a video of her having sex with four footballers was posted online.
Two students have been dismissed from Tottenville High School after the incident. According to the Daily Mail, Garcia jumped to her death around 3.15 p.m. Wednesday at the Huguenot Staten Island Railway station. Study: Outnumbered by men, women don’t speak up. A new study confirms what most of us probably already know: Scholars at Brigham Young University and Princeton examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem. In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their proportional representation – amounting to less than 75 percent of the time that men spoke. Nationwide Call for Vigils for Lesbian Teen Couple Shot in Texas Park. No Arrests in Portland Park Shootings. Texas Rangers Join the Portland Shooting Investigation.
Friends reel from shooting of teen lesbian couple in Texas. Courtesy of Jillian Manuel Rainbow ribbons, messages, flowers and cut-out hearts were left near the site in Portland, Tex., where a couple found Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Kristene Chapa, 18, after they were shot.
By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News Friends and family of two teenage girls in a same-sex relationship who were shot in the head in a South Texas park expressed shock and grief Tuesday over the incident in which one of the young women was killed and the other severely injured. Teen female couple shot in South Texas park, one dead, police say - Crimesider. (CBS/KZTV) PORTLAND, Texas - Police have not yet made any arrests in the weekend shooting of two south Texas teens at a Portland park.
According to CBS affiliate KZTV, two visitors to the Violet Andrews Park found the women's bodies lying in the grass. Pictures: Same-sex teen couple shot in South Texas park Mollie Judith Olgin,19, was pronounced dead at the scene and her apparent girlfriend, 18-year-old Mary Christine Chapa, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head.
Chapa was reportedly listed in serious but stable condition. KZTV reports investigators believe they teens were shot around midnight on Friday. According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, police say the women likely walked with their attacker down a trail and into knee deep grass. Friends of the women said the two had been dating for about five months, KZTV reports. Body Image - Women, Websites and Body Image. The pressure on women to look and behave in certain ways is so deeply ingrained in our psyches that it’s easy to overlook the impact mass culture has on how we feel about ourselves and our bodies.
Watching TV, reading magazines and newspapers, surfing the Net, we are bombarded with airbrushed images of perfect beauty and thinness. Is Dove photoshopping its “real beauty” ads? When dove’s real beauty campaign first came out, everyone was beside themselves kissing dove’s ass and talking about how great it was for female body image. ever the pessimist, i’ve always thought the dove campaign was completely full of shit. it’s a marketing ploy to get people to visit the dove website, and the “real beauty” they feature in ads and on their website is same ol,’ same ol.
“i have freckles, and i still think i’m beautiful.” meanwhile, i’m thinking: you’re a ten year old red-headed white kid. hello, lindsey lohan circa the parent trap? Of course people think you’re cute and beautiful. “i’m beautiful and i have braces!” You and every other kid on the block. Beauty and Body Image in the Media. How Are Teenage Girls Supposed to Identify as Feminists With These Role Models? Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 04/30/2010 not (necessarily) a teenage feminist She’s staring at me like I’ve just insinuated she embodies the anti-Christ.
“A feminist? No, I’m not a feminist. Oh my God.” Teenage feminists are a mighty minority. 10 Famous Films That Surprisingly Fail The Bechdel Test. All this week, Film School Rejects presents a daily dose of our favorite articles from the archive.
Originally published in September 2011, Ashe Cantrell applies the simple, ever-relevant Bechdel Test to a number of high profile movies… The rise of enlightened sexism - The Scavenger. Details Published: 12 February 2011 Hits: 4589 Enlightened sexism is a new, subtle, sneaky form of sexism that seems to accept – even celebrate – female achievements on the surface, but is really about repudiating feminism and keeping women, especially young women, in their place, writes Susan J.
Douglas. 13 February 2011. 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women. Photos.com I don't know what it's like to be a woman, so it's not easy for me to describe what it's like to be a man, because I don't know what you're using for context.
I'm going to do my best: Did you ever watch old cartoons where a character is starving on a desert island, and when another character approaches, he's so hungry that he imagines the other character as a talking piece of food? Via TV TropesThird panel omitted due to graphic content. Did Anyone In Conservative Media Actually Read Or Listen To Sandra Fluke's Testimony? TV's tortured virgins - Grey’s Anatomy. Ever since “90210’s” Donna Martin held on to hers for seven seasons, adult virginity — the state of having it and the act of losing it — has been a recurring plot point on TV dramas, and not just ones set in high school.
What Happens To 3 Out Of 4 Girls After Leafing Through A Fashion Mag For 3 Minutes? Where the powerful women are.