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Men, Wake Up: 3 Types of Toxic Masculinity to Leave Behind for 2017. Do We Believe Women Yet? The Battle to End Sexual Harassment. Sexual-harassment-workplace. Women Are Speaking Up About Harassment And Abuse, But Why Now? Anita Hill is sworn in before testifying during Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991.

Women Are Speaking Up About Harassment And Abuse, But Why Now?

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Anita Hill is sworn in before testifying during Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991. For decades, women generally kept quiet about being sexually harassed — or even assaulted — at work. Gender pay gap: the day women start working for free - Washington Post. As a woman in media, sexual harassment was the norm. I was told to keep it to myself. Harvey Weinstein Is Fired After Sexual Harassment Reports - The New York Times. Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality. For Mother's Day I asked for one thing: a house cleaning service.

Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality

Bathrooms and floors specifically, windows if the extra expense was reasonable. The gift, for me, was not so much in the cleaning itself but the fact that for once I would not be in charge of the household office work. I would not have to make the calls, get multiple quotes, research and vet each service, arrange payment and schedule the appointment. The real gift I wanted was to be relieved of the emotional labor of a single task that had been nagging at the back of my mind. The clean house would simply be a bonus. My husband waited for me to change my mind to an "easier" gift than housecleaning, something he could one-click order on Amazon. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below What I wanted was for him to ask friends on Facebook for a recommendation, call four or five more services, do the emotional labor I would have done if the job had fallen to me.

Getty According to Dr. Around The World, Girls Are Taught The Same Limiting Lesson. It’s time for a new story: The talks of Session 4 of TEDWomen 2016. Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture. A Brief History: The Three Waves of Feminism. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. History of the Women’s Rights Movement. Living the Legacy: The Women’s Rights Movement (1848-1998)

History of the Women’s Rights Movement

The 1960s-70s American Feminist Movement: Breaking Down Barriers for Women. Vision and Motivation In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace.

The 1960s-70s American Feminist Movement: Breaking Down Barriers for Women

A woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her life to homemaking. The New York Times. Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were - The New York T... No Justice, ‘No Value’ for Women in a Lawless Afghan Province - The New York Times. Orly x MuslimGirl Halal-Certified Nail Polish. Many Muslim men and women are not able to wear regular nail polish because it conflicts with prayer practices.

Orly x MuslimGirl Halal-Certified Nail Polish

The coats of polish are believed to create a barrier over the skin, which prevents water from touching every part of the body during ablutions, but Orly's new polish collection offers a solution. In an effort to bridge the diversity gap in the beauty world, the polish brand has teamed up with Muslim Girl to release a new collection of six halal-certified polishes, all of which let oxygen and moisture pass through the polish.

The Breathable line called #HalalPaint features adorably sassy polish names like Haram-Bae, The Perfect Amani-Cure, What the Fatima? , Ig-Noor the Haters, and more, named by MuslimGirl.com founder Amani Al-Khatahtbeh and the Muslim Girl team. "This line is important because there are so many girls and young women who aren't represented in mainstream beauty," Azmia Magane, Muslim Girl chief of staff, said in a press release. The Weird Familiarity of 100-Year-Old Feminism Memes - The Atlantic. It seems almost farcical that the 2016 presidential campaign has become a referendum on misogyny at a moment when the United States is poised to elect its first woman president.

The Weird Familiarity of 100-Year-Old Feminism Memes - The Atlantic

Not that this is surprising, exactly. There’s a long tradition of politics clashing spectacularly with perceived gender norms around election time, and the stakes often seem highest when women are about to make history. The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names - Atlas Obscura. The current U.S. passport includes 13 inspirational quotes from notable Americans.

The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names - Atlas Obscura

Only one belongs to a woman, the African-American scholar, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. On pages 26-27 are words she wrote in 1892: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” If equality is a journey, then it should come as no surprise that passports have helped American women to cross some of society’s most entrenched cultural borders for more than a century. Log In - New York Times. Other Countries Aim To Fill Aid Shortfall Caused By U.S. Abortion Rule. President Trump signs an executive order alongside Vice President Pence administration officials.

Other Countries Aim To Fill Aid Shortfall Caused By U.S. Abortion Rule

One of the documents Trump signed that day was a memorandum reinstating the "Mexico City policy. " Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Trump signs an executive order alongside Vice President Pence administration officials. After President Trump blocked U.S. aid money from supporting any group that provides or "promotes" abortion in other countries, The Netherlands announced it would launch a fundraising initiative to support any affected organizations.

Now, several other countries — including Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Canada — have signaled their participation. Log In - New York Times. Log In Don't have an account?

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Sign up here » Facebook. Gender Inequality. Stories of Mighty Women: 2016 Biographies for Adult Readers. 50 New Biographies about Inspiring Women for Older Teen & Adult Readers!

Stories of Mighty Women: 2016 Biographies for Adult Readers

On A Mighty Girl, we feature thousands of books for children and teens about smart, confident, and courageous girls and women, but we are also often asked for reading recommendations for adults about inspiring women of the past and present. To that end, in this blog post, we're sharing fifty of our favorite biographies for older teen and adult readers about Mighty Women that were published in 2016. Among these titles are insightful introductions to oft-neglected female scientists, gripping tales about heroism during wartime, and thoughtful reflections on the quest for women's rights. Since A Mighty Girl's website does not have a book section for adult readers, you won't find these recommendations on our site; however, we've included links below to Amazon so you can learn more or order individual titles. Biographies for Adult Readers Written by: Tilar J. Recommended Age: Adults My Own Words. Mapping child marriage in West Africa - New Ford Foundation study.

Sexual Violence Is Not Politics; It's Humanity And On Us To Act. You Don’t Hate Feminism. You Just Don’t Understand It. The latest anti-feminism campaign is a Tumblr called Women Against Feminism. But the participants aren’t against feminism, exactly. The Third Wave Of Feminism Is Now, And It Is Intersectional. Fighting back against anti-feminist backlash: Women can win the Trump era’s new culture war. Some things in life are unfortunately inevitable: Pet lives are short, people get miffed too easily on the internet, and you left someone off your holiday gift list and will be scrambling to get them something at the last minute. In this category, we must also include the inevitability of reactionary backlash to feminist progress. History makes it clear that when women surge ahead towards equality, conservative forces will rise up to slap them down, limiting and even, at times, rolling back the progress that was made. It happened in the 1950s, when shift towards women in the workforce in the 1940s was met with the romanticization of housewifery and Marilyn Monroe-style female submissiveness.

It happened famously in the 1980s, when Phyllis Schlafly and the religious right were able to stall a decade of feminist progress by killing off the Equal Rights Amendment and getting Ronald Reagan elected president. I wish it weren’t so, but Goldberg is right. Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Sl... When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between.

Later, when my fellow flight students and I, in training at the Naval Air Station in Meridian, Mississippi, clustered around a small television watching the Apollo 11 moon landing, little did I know that one of the key figures responsible for its success was an unassuming black woman from West Virginia: Katherine Johnson. Hidden Figures is both an upcoming book and an upcoming movie about her incredible life, and, as the title suggests, Katherine worked behind the scenes but with incredible impact. When Katherine began at NASA, she and her cohorts were known as “human computers,” and if you talk to her or read quotes from throughout her long career, you can see that precision, that humming mind, constantly at work. The true story of how Teen Vogue got mad, got woke, and began terrifying men ... Good Girls Revolt Gets Canceled With No Women at the Table - The Atlantic. Gloria Steinem: 'Fewer people will say we live in a post-racist, post-feminis...

Clinton's Loss Has Motivated Thousands Of Women To Consider Running For Office. M.facebook. Photo. These Are the Female Politicians Inspiring the Next Generation of Women. My mother, the Nobel Peace Prize pioneer. BDPfA E. Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality. Chimamanda Adichie Brilliantly Shut Down A Man Who Said Trump Isn’t Racist - ... Granddaughters of the Revolution. It’s fitting that — on the eve of the first presidential election in which we can vote for a major-party female candidate — the power of the female vote has been made triumphantly clear. If only women went to the polls next week, they’d turn the Election Night map almost entirely blue, and sweep Hillary Clinton into office with a landslide victory. ‘Ladies First’: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates - Video.

Why 'Feminism' Is Still A Dirty Word In Many Countries : Goats and Soda. Last week, we asked a question: What does it mean to be a "feminist" in your country? How do your belief systems and cultural traditions shape your view of how a woman should exercise her rights? Is Wonder Woman Suited To Be A U.N. Ambassador For The Empowerment Of Women And Girls : Goats and Soda. Every 7 seconds, a girl younger than 15 gets married. To the First Lady, With Love. "We All Knew About the Trafficking"-The Untold Story of Trump Model Managemen... Many men talk like Donald Trump in private. And only other men can stop them. Humanity for Hillary - Journal. The Rep Test 2.01. Meet The Cool Girls At A High School In Kabul: #15Girls : Goats and Soda. 8 Quotes for International Women's Day. Finland's parliament: pioneer of gender equality.

Girl effect factsheet. Egypt's first convicted FGM doctor Fadl loses licence. Annual Report 2015. Sweden Gives 'We Should All Be Feminists' To Every 16-Year-Old Student. Milana Vayntrub, AT&T Girl, Is Taking On The Syrian Refugee Crisis. Women as a Force for Change. Glogin?URI= Young Rural Women in India Chase Big-City Dreams. What the movie ‘Suffragette’ doesn’t tell you about about how women won the right to vote. HuffPost Women - Timeline. Propaganda Postcards From The Early 20th Century Show The Dangers Of Women’s ... Sixteen girls from six continents tell TakePart about the most surprising—and empowering— aspects of being 16 in 2016. We should all be feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDxEuston.

Four Waves of Feminism. WWII pilot Elaine Harmon breaks one last barrier at Arlington National Cemetery. Founder of Denmark’s first mosque for women: ‘I will not listen to naysayers’ From Bikinis to Burkinis, Regulating What Women Wear. FACT SHEET: As part of the First Lady's Visit to Morocco, the U.S. Government Announces New Programming to Help Address the Barriers that Prevent Adolescent Girls from Attaining an Education. Closing the Gender Data Gap (Paid Post by Gates Foundation From The New York Times) Can We Finally Stop Doing Things 'Backwards And In Heels'? : Monkey See. Pope Francis Open to Studying Ordination of Women as Deacons.

Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice.