Researchers Use High-Tech Dress To Show Just How Often Women Are Groped At Clubs

From Guacamoley! authored by Jonna Ivin:

“The beverage company Schweppes teamed up with advertising agency Ogilvy recently to devise a campaign to send a message about sexual harassment in nightclubs.

The project is called The Dress for Respect. To prove a point in light of the #MeToo movement that women aren’t exaggerating about sexual assault and sexual harassment,  researchers built a heat sensory dress for women to wear to a nightclub. The information collected would then show on a computer screen how many times the woman wearing the dress was groped, grabbed and touched.

After the data was collected the video and images were shown to men who appeared totally shocked by what they witnessed. Women, on the other hand, don’t seem shocked at all. They’ve been talking about it for years.”

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Home Is the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ for Women Around the World, New U.N. Study Says

From TIME authored by Eli Meixlier:

“The “most dangerous place” for women around the world may be at home. More than half of female murder victims last year were killed by their partners or family members, according to a new United Nations study.

The findings were released by the U.N.’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Sunday to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The report found that of 87,000 recorded female homicide cases last year, 50,000, or 58%, were committed by the victims’ intimate partners or family members. The toll equates to six women killed every hour, or 137 killed every day, by people they know.

“Women continue to pay the highest price as a result of gender inequality, discrimination and negative stereotypes,” UNODC executive director Yury Fedotov told Agence France-Presse. ‘The fact that women continue to be affected by this type of violence to a greater degree than men is indicative of an imbalance in power relations between women and men inside the domestic sphere.’”

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This 9-Year-Old Basketball Player Is Asking Steph Curry Why His Sneakers Are Only Made for Boys

From Teen Vogue authored by Mekita Rivas:

“In a handwritten letter posted to Twitter, Steph Curry responded to a 9-year-old basketball player who was concerned about the way his collection with Under Armour was marketed. “I appreciate your concern and have spent the last 2 days talking to Under Armour about how we can fix the issue,” he writes. “Unfortunately we have labeled smaller sizes ‘boys’ on the website and we are correcting this NOW.” He goes on to say that he will be sending her a pair of shoes that fit and also mentions that he has something in the works for International Women’s Day in March.”
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Virginia may be the key to finally ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment

From CNN authored by Christina Maxouris and Brandon Griggs:

“For months now, the Equal Rights Amendment has been on the brink of becoming federal law. Virginia might be the state to put it over the top.

Jennifer Carroll Foy, a Virginia legislator, just wrapped a tour across the state campaigning for the ERA, which says that “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
It was passed by Congress in 1972 but still has yet to be ratified by the states more than four decades later.”
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My husband and I are equal partners. Why does he get so much more credit for parenting?

From The Lily authored by Katie Wheeler:

“Now that I’m a member of the “Mom Club,” I hear a lot of women who complain about their husband’s inability to fold laundry, make a bottle, juggle pickups and take on parent-teacher conferences.

Parenthood has largely been viewed as “women’s work,” at the expense of both partners.

Society doesn’t make this an easy problem to solve: Studies show that in childhood, girls get the bulk of household chores, and we carry that model into adulthood.

These gender biases are built into our culture, and it’s difficult to push back on, for men and women. A clear example of this recently emerged when my partner returned from bringing our daughter to the doctor.”

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Your Marriage Is Over—Who Gets Custody of the Pets?

From Glamour authored by Melissa Batchelor Warnke:

“When Maddy, a 39-year-old gallery founder living in Virginia, split from her husband, she imagined their parting would be placid. Aspirational even. Their home would be informally partitioned—she would live in one part, he in another, then there would be a common area in which their two children, along with their Boston terrier and standard poodle, would roam freely. “I thought we were going to have this amazing Scandinavian divorce,” she says.

Yeah, no. That plan hit the skids. Instead, she found a pet-friendly apartment building and assumed the animals would go with her because she says her ex was never crazy about the pets. “But he insisted he have the dogs sometimes too,” she says. So, after much negotiation, they came to an off-the-books agreement: The pooches would commute back and forth with the kids. They’ve been doing that weekly shuffle for six years.”

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I’m a self-made millionaire, and this is EXACTLY how much help I have at home

From Medium authored by Denise Dufflield-Thomas:

“This should be a straightforward article to write, except that it’s not that simple and I’m not that naive.

A man would never need to write this article because it’s just assumed that they have a wife at home doing most of the housework and childcare.

But for some reason, a woman outsourcing home help is secretive and taboo. I’m afraid of being told I’m lazy, out of touch or a bad mother, despite the fact that my husband benefits too!

I feel like I have to defend and add disclaimers to almost every paragraph. Yes, I know I’m lucky. Yes, I know nobody is really “self-made” (white privilege hello!), yes I know there are single mothers and struggling families who can’t afford help.

Lots of people ask me how I balance it all (ah, the age-old question for successful women) and the honest answer is WITH SO MUCH PAID HELP.

SO MUCH you guys.”

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The Congressional Uniform Is About to Change

From The New York Times authored by Vanessa Friedman:

“Thus does the old political camouflage erode — slowly, but with visible results.

On Tuesday night (and for some, Wednesday morning), as the election results rolled in and candidates gave their victory or concession speeches, the way that many of them chose to present themselves in that moment was as clear a message about how they meant to go on — and the split that was about to become the new normal in Washington — as any of the words they uttered.

Yes, I’m talking about what they wore. Starting next term, Congress is going to have something of a new look, not just because of the striking diversity of race and gender in the House, but because of the new attitude toward image and self-definition that goes with that.

In an era when the president places a premium on “casting” and has raised the stakes on visual communication, and when he put himself and those ideas at the center of the referendum, it’s part of the story.”

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Too Many Senior Women Are Leaving the Profession

From Law Practice Today authored by Roberta Liebenberg:

“I often describe myself as a “unicorn” in the legal profession. I have been practicing law for more than 43 years, and I still have a very active, full-time practice. I love being a lawyer and feel very fortunate to work on so many interesting and challenging cases on behalf of my clients and to serve as a problem solver for them. My primary practice area is antitrust law, a field that has been and continues to be overwhelmingly male. The field of antitrust turned out to be the perfect niche for me, as it involves complex factual, economic, and legal issues; affords the opportunity to represent plaintiff classes and corporate defendants in civil and criminal cases, and enables me to learn about a wide range of industries.

I also am fortunate to have worked in two big law firms; started the first women-owned law firm in Philadelphia that concentrated in class actions and complex commercial litigation, and practiced for the past 18 years with a nationally recognized antitrust boutique. The many paths I have taken during my career have formed a mosaic that has given me both great personal satisfaction and professional fulfillment.

However, it is painfully obvious to me that my experience may be rather unique, as too few senior women lawyers remain in the profession. This observation was confirmed by the results of a new study by Stephanie Scharf and me as part of former ABA President Hilarie Bass’s groundbreaking “Initiative on Achieving Long-Term Careers for Women in Law.” Our findings demonstrate that more women lawyers who have been practicing at least 20-25 years are leaving the practice of law, particularly from private practice, at a time when, like their male counterparts, they should be in the prime of their careers in terms of business development, leadership roles and earning power.”

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Girl scout who led push to end child marriage becomes a state lawmaker at age 19

From Women in the World authored by WITW Staff:

“When Cassandra Levesque was 17, she led a campaign to end child marriage in New Hampshire that was dismissed by a state legislator who said that it would be absurd to raise the age of marriage from 13 just because “of a request from a minor doing a Girl Scout project.” Levesque, 19, was elected to the state House of Representatives as a Democrat last Tuesday after an election that saw the number of state representatives under age 40 double in a legislature that was once the oldest in the country. As recently as 2015, the average age of a New Hampshire state legislator was 66 years old.

“They have had some trouble trying to get into the mindset of generations after them — it’s a totally different time than when they were my age,” said Levesque, whose “Girl Scout Project” successfully helped push the state’s marriage age to 16 this summer. ‘Having someone new to help them see different perspective will definitely help.’”

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