Tag: Sexism
Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut
A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
The National Memorial for...
Abusive relationships: Why it’s so hard for women to ‘just leave’
Daniel G. Saunders, University of Michigan
“And so I stayed.”
In a widely read blog post, Jennifer Willoughby wrote this phrase after each of the...
Beyond #MeToo, Brazilian women rise up against racism and sexism
Alvaro Jarrin, College of the Holy Cross and Kia Lilly Caldwell, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Women’s empowerment recently got a big...
What the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,”...
What the Google gender ‘manifesto’ really says about Silicon Valley
Marie Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Five years ago, Silicon Valley was rocked by a wave of “brogrammer” bad behavior, when overfunded, highly entitled, mostly white...
Will women vote for women in 2018? It depends on if...
Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne; Christopher Stout, Oregon State University, and Kelsy Kretschmer, Oregon State University
The 2018 elections promise to be the “Year of...
Uber gets a backseat driver as Kalanick exits top job
John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
As the ride-hailing company Uber lurched from one clumsy mess to the next, it had appeared that...
Combatting stereotypes: How to talk to your children
Marjorie Rhodes, New York University
How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
