From The New York Times authored by Alysia Montano: “Many athletic apparel companies, including Nike, claim to elevate female athletes. A commercial released in February received widespread acclaim for spotlighting women at all stages of their careers, from childhood to motherhood. On Mother’s Day this year, Nike released a video promoting gender equality. But that’s just advertising. The economics […]
Category Archives: Activist
GETTING TO GENDER EQUALITY WITH ECONOMICS AND PURCHASING POWER
From W2.0 authored by W2.0 Staff: “In 2014, Donna Miller was on vacation with her sisters, Dr. Karen Nern and Dr. Freddi Pennington. All former business executives, with five daughters and three granddaughters between them, they started talking about their frustration with the lack of women in senior leadership positions and the fact that one […]
What Do You Do When You Become The Statistic You Desperately Hoped To Avoid?
From Above the Law authored by Amy D. Cubbage: “When I got out of law school, freshly minted as an attorney, I was prepared to change the world for women lawyers. My law school class in the mid-1990s was only 30 percent women, and we felt it. We were told in ways both subtle and […]
Moms Are Fighting To Use Campaign Funds For Child Care
From The Huffington Post authored by Molly Redden: “Josie Raymond only campaigned once with her daughter before she realized she had to hire a babysitter. She was in the thick of a competitive race for a Kentucky House seat, and she could easily spend all day canvassing suburban Louisville — but her toddler couldn’t. “We […]
Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes
From Women in the World authored by WITW STAFF: “After two trials described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair,” Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has dedicated her life to defending Iranian women prosecuted for removing their hijabs in public, […]
Inside One Woman’s Fight to Rewrite the Law on Marital Rape
From The New York Times authored by Karen Zraick: “Jenny Teeson was in the middle of a divorce when she found a video of her husband sexually assaulting her in her sleep. The discovery turned her into a leading advocate for overturning archaic laws that can make it nearly impossible to prosecute men for marital […]
A record number of congresswomen are mothers. Here’s a glimpse inside their first-ever caucus.
From The Washington Post authored by Caitlin Gibson: “How are your kids doing? It isn’t the question itself that bothers Katie Porter. The freshman Democratic congresswoman from California, a single mom of three children, is perfectly aware that inquiring about another person’s family is just polite small talk. But there’s something about the way some […]
For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
From Harvard Business Review authored by Joan C. Williams and Marina Multhaup: “Organizations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace for decades — with little success. The most common techniques, such as one-time sensitivity trainings, haven’t worked. The numbers of women and people of color in leadership roles are still staggeringly low across […]
Giant boob balloons encourage Londoners to embrace breastfeeding in public
From Women in the World authored by WITW Staff: “Gigantic breast-shaped balloons are appearing all over London as part of a campaign highlighting the stigma that mothers breastfeeding in public still face in the British capital. The goal of the #FreetheFeed campaign, which first made headlines with its head-turning inflatable boobs in 2017, is to “remove […]
Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.
From The New York Times authored by Julia Jacobs: “…Studies on Wikipedia’s contributor base from several years ago estimated that fewer than 20 percent of editors were women. This research backed up an existing awareness in the Wikipedia community that female editors were seriously underrepresented, galvanizing activists who set out to recruit more women to […]
