Generation WE: A Generation 95 Million People Strong. San Diego Men Wear Heels to Raise Money for Domestic-Abuse Programs. Guest Post: Feminism and Being a Housewife | Small Strokes. Cat Rocketship, the author of this guest post, is maybe like my long-lost twin. She writes today about how she reconciles being a housewife and being a feminist, and her themes really work well with what I’ve been writing about this week and totally echo Emily’s post – the very first in this series – about being a feminist and changing your last name upon marriage.
You all know by now that I’m a huge advocate of choices, and I believe that the very act of making a choice is the feminist act in any given situation, so hearing from Cat about making the choice to be a housewife and being confident in that decision has warmed my heart and helped me come to terms with some of the things I’ve been discussing here. I told you before that I didn’t have any answers, but maybe Cat can give you some if that’s what you’re looking for! I am 26 years old, and I am a feminist housewife. In my mind a “housewife” is a very specific role, largely influenced by the Nick at Nite shows I watched growing up. Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions. A recommendation letter could be the chute in a woman's career ladder, according to ongoing research at Rice University. The comprehensive study shows that qualities mentioned in recommendation letters for women differ sharply from those for men, and those differences may be costing women jobs and promotions in academia and medicine.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Rice University professors Michelle Hebl and Randi Martin and graduate student Juan Madera, now an assistant professor at the University of Houston, reviewed 624 letters of recommendation for 194 applicants for eight junior faculty positions at a U.S. university. They found that letter writers conformed to traditional gender schemas when describing candidates. Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic (active or assertive) terms.
"Subtle gender discrimination continues to be rampant," Hebl said. Street_harassment1.jpg (JPEG Image, 625x1250 pixels) ‘Whose Streets?’ Asks New York City Council. By Shakthi Jothianandan It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday the New York City Council held its first-ever hearing on street harassment of women and young girls. In 2009, city politicians investigated groping and assault on the subways, but they had yet to extend their inquiries above-ground. Council Member Julissa Ferreras, Chair of the Women’s Issues Committee, organized the hearing after high school girls in her district told her of daily verbal harassment near their school. “I was outraged,” Ferreras said. She recounts her own high-school experience of being cat-called on the way to school: That was the fastest I’ve ever walked.
And I was probably 14 years old in the 9th grade. Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women equated street harassment with “sexual terrorism,” testifying, The harassment of teenagers and young girls was a particular topic of concern. Journalist Elizabeth Mendez Barry commented:
Killing Us Softly part 1 of 4. I am a good person by ~PaMikoo on deviantART. State of the Nation. They say it's too easy. According to 48 percent of American voters, it's "too easy" to have an abortion in this country. Too easy? Every year, legislatures introduce hundreds of bills to restrict abortion. Every year, dozens pass. This year has been no exception. The Center for Reproductive Rights published a report on the nearly 50 new laws that have already been passed this year: biased counseling, forced ultrasounds, bans on insurance coverage, parental notification... Louisiana was among the many states to pass new laws restricting abortion.
And it had its first success: it shut down the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport. The Legislature gave us this authority because they recognized we must have the ability to stop unsafe practices that place these already vulnerable women in danger. But closing abortion clinics doesn't protect vulnerable women. Consider the challenges a woman in Missouri now faces. If she's a minor, she'll first need her parents’ consent. A Real Reason to Boycott Whole Foods?
(NaturalNews) Whole Foods is in a public relations crisis. After its CEO John Mackey posted a widely-read opinion piece that insisted Americans have no intrinsic right to health care, it was slammed with angry liberal customers who picketed stores and organized a national Whole Foods boycott at a Facebook page now numbering over 26,000 members ( Whole Foods customers are angry at the upscale retailer over the position of its CEO on health care reform, but I can think of a much better reason to avoid shopping at Whole Foods: The store sells a whole lot of junk products.
Those aren't my words; they're the words of CEO John Mackey, who admitted this during a discussion about how Whole Foods might improve its product offerings (( The last time I was in the U.S., I shopped at Whole Foods because it was the best option for convenient health food. Dr. Vote with your dollars, folks. The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: Pics, Videos, Links, News.
Sign of the Times: Metallic-Inked Undies Give TSA a Constitutional Middle Finger | Co.Design. So it turns out all the fuss over the TSA's full-body scanners was a lot of hooey cooked up by hacky cable media and Internet dweebs with overactive imaginations. That hasn't stopped folks from trying to profit off the whole unlovely ordeal. Exhibit A: TSA protest undies by Tim Geoghegan and Matthew Ryan. The undies are printed directly over your naughty bits, some in metallic ink that's theoretically visible under the flash of an X-ray.
The image: text of the Fourth Amendment. So while security guards scan the most intimate reaches of your body, they'll get a lesson on Constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures -- that or a sort of homework assignment. As the crotch of one pair of boxers says: "Read the 4th Amendment Perverts. " The designers explain their motivation: It all started when we removed our shoes to go through an X-ray scanner. [Images via Cargo Collective]