Tag: Gender inequality
Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace –...
Katrina Kosec, Johns Hopkins University and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, University of California, Berkeley
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big...
Exploring the data on Hollywood’s gender pay gap
Roberto Pedace, Scripps College
Audiences were furious to hear that Michelle Williams was paid eight times less than Mark Wahlberg for her starring role in...
Saudi women are fighting for their freedom – and their hard-won...
Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona
Saudi women will soon be allowed to obtain passports and travel without the permission of a male relative.
This new regulation,...
Women earn less after they have kids, despite strong credentials
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Women without kids have earned more than employed mothers for decades or longer. But differences between these two kinds...
What post-Weinstein Hollywood can learn from ’90s sexual harassment training
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
When accounts of Harvey Weinstein’s harassment emerged, they reminded me of vignettes from harassment videos made by professional human...
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...
