The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that discrimination against pregnant women is on the rise. Up14% in the past year, to be exact. And yet, pregnant women have very little recourse. Jezebel (linked above) explains pregnant women's legal bind: "Employers can fire, lay off...
misogyny
Katha Pollitt on John Pomfret's Misogyny Clearinghouse:Linda Hirshman ["For Hillary's Campaign, It's Been a Class Struggle," Outlook, March 2] explains that women, including me, who support Sen. Barack Obama are.
Mike Huckabee (who, yes, is apparently still in the presidential race) today endorsed the Colorado "Human Life Amendment," which would recognize human life in Colorado from "the moment of conception.".
Via Feminist Law Profs comes this interesting website/advertisement for "Outfoxed," a documentary about how Fox News is dragging down the entire television medium. The website "Fox News Porn" exposes how Fox News consistently relies on images of scantily clad and gyrating women to titillate its...
...But given the frequency with which I hear about women as "incubators" or "vessels," I'm not exactly sure this is how I'd frame it.Though I still do love xkcd for.
Via AmericaBlog, there's a story of St. Marys, a Catholic boy's high school in Kansas that refused to allow a woman to referee one of its basketball games because [a.
Following up on D, Axe has perhaps taken it to a new misogynistic low with their newest add (and here you didn't think they could go any lower). Behold:As Jezebel says, the ad "stinks worse than their crappy cologne." Anyone else think Barack Obama could...
People are talking about Stephanie Coontz's NY Times Opinion column today, in which she advocates that we take back marriage from the control of the states. Here's the nub of.