Tag: Gender discrimination
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
Transgender Americans still face workplace discrimination despite some progress and support...
George B. Cunningham, Texas A&M University
Activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith founded Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20 to honor the memory of those...
Only 1 in 4 women who have been sexually harassed tell...
Margaret E. Johnson, University of Baltimore
On May 30, a grand jury indicted Harvey Weinstein on charges he raped one woman and forced another to...
Nike’s #MeToo moment shows how ‘legal’ harassment can lead to illegal...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Nike’s having its #MeToo moment – and it illustrates plainly what’s still missing from our discussion of sexual harassment...
Very few women oversee US companies. Here’s how to change that
Yannick Thams, Suffolk University; Bari Bendell, Suffolk University, and Siri Terjesen, American University
Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50...
How a job acquires a gender (and less authority if it’s...
Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara and Laura Doering, McGill University
“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss.”
So proclaims Beyoncé in a video in...
126,000 reasons why the Emma Watson hoax isn’t all bad news
By Evita March, Federation University Australia
In less than a week since actor Emma Watson’s stirring United Nations speech on gender inequality, two big things...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
