Resistance to Komen’s assault on Planned Parenthood reminds us of our strengths and weaknesses
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As Kaili Joy Gray pointed out earlier here today, the Komen Foundation hasn't reversed its decision not to fund grants for Planned Parenthood. It's made one of those phony apologies designed to deflect criticism rather than renounce i...
Women in retail earn less and get promoted less than men, study finds
As creative as today's employers are in screwing workers, one way in which they are traditionalists is the commitment to always screwing female workers just a little worse than male ones.
A new report from the Retail Action Project finds that women wo...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Airbrushing and whitewashing women
I don't think I have to explain what it says about our society when women celebrities are airbrushed because magazine editors think they're a bit too heavy or a little too dark. This reinforcement of destructive and racist stereotypes for commercial p...
Michele Bachmann thinks there may be sexism at work after all
You can tell a Republican woman running for office is getting desperate when she plays the sexism card.
See, while she's doing well in the polls, raising plenty of money, and even convincing her party to take her seriously, there's no such thing as se...
Open thread for night owls: Parental leave—Surprise! The U.S. is not No. 1
On NPR's All Things Considered, Erin Killian reports, Parental Leave: The Swedes Are The Most Generous:
[...] Sweden has some of the most generous parental leave laws in the world — and the government not only considers the mother, but also the fath...
Michele Bachmann is a ‘Balloon Head’ in Chris Matthews’ Book
Filed under: State of the Union, Media, Sarah Palin, Woman Up, Congress, Tea PartyI don't disagree with calling Bachmann out on her remarks that slavery was ended by the Founding Fathers. But no legitimate political conversation is advanced by sexist n...
‘Morning Joe’ and Eliot Spitzer Know How to Keep Women Quiet
Filed under: Media, Eliot Spitzer, Woman Up, Culture, Conservatives, Liberals, ModeratesJoe Scarborough and Eliot Spitzer dominate their co-hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Kathleen Parker, on their respective talk shows. Is this plain old sexism or part of ...
John Boehner: Weeper of the House
Filed under: Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Woman Up, 2010 Elections, Congress, Conservatives, John BoehnerKnowing the kind if political animal that Boehner is, I wouldn't put it past him to have become a master of using a few tears or sniffles to convince...
Open thread for night owls: Sexism & female candidates
At In These Times, Megan Tady writes, Media, Stop Abusing Female Candidates:
There is a fear both subtle and obvious running rampant through our news media. It is not fear of a U.S. economy stuck in recession, or more housing foreclosures, or Obama-care, or the Tea Party, or feigned...
Weren’t Republican Women Supposed to Like Men — and Act Like Ladies?Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, 2010 Elections, Campaigns Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
112th Congress: Fewer women, fewer Blue DogsCome January, fewer women will be seated in the House and Senate, the first decrease in their numbers in Congress since 1978. Most, possibly all, of those losses will be Democrats. At the same time, Blue Dog Democrats may see their coalition in the House cut by a third, or deeper, with possibly more than... Follow seriouslypolitics on Twitter!
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