2012 June Archive | Feministing

Quick hit: Very few ladies in the Daily Beast/Newsweek Digital Power index

Your morning dose of sexist #realtalk comes from a new list at the Daily Beast/Newsweek media conglomerate that tries to map out digital power. According to their digital power index–women have almost none. It must be because so few of us even know what an internet is. Oh, wait.

Notable:

Zero women are digital visionaries, builders, innovators, angels or virologists.

Let’s start our own list–who are some ladies that you would nominate as having mega-digital power?

By Samhita • 11 years ago

Sixty percent of women are the primary breadwinner, but still doing most of the housework

Most people who identify as women have to work in this day and age–that’s just the reality of the time we live in (sorry “get back in the kitchen” advocates). But while the day-to-day lives of women have changed substantially, gendered expectations around housework have not. According to a study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, despite significant shifts in women’s participation in the workforce, the amount of work they do in the house has only shifted marginally.

Some of the findings include:

Household Activities in 2011

–On an average day, 83 percent of women and 65 percent of men spent some
time doing household activities such as housework, cooking, lawn care, or
financial and other household management.

–On the days ...

By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

What We Missed

Whaaat? The writer who created the character Josh Lyman is in real life arrogant and condescending to women? No way.

What’s the matter with Kansas? Well, its non-stop crusade against abortion providers, for one thing.

Alyssa Rosenberg on “Brave” and why gender performance and sexual orientation are not the same thing.

Whaaat? The writer who created the character Josh Lyman is in real life arrogant and condescending to women? No way.

What’s the matter with Kansas? Well, its non-stop crusade against abortion providers, for one thing.

Alyssa Rosenberg ...

By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

We laughed, we cried, we got shit done

We mocked Joe the Plumber. We drank frozen margaritas. We danced the night away (some of us. Others of us, who are twenty-four going on ninety-four, went home to bed and very much appreciate that the rest of the crew didn’t give us a hard time about it).

This weekend, the whole Feministing crew came together in New York City for a weekend of sustainability planning and bonding. It was a really productive weekend, and we all walked away feeling tired – smashing the patriarchy can be draining, y’all – but excited about what the next year holds for Feministing.

Last month, we asked you to donate a few dollars to help fund the annual retreat. We explained that the retreat ...

By Katie Halper • 11 years ago

Supreme Court: We heart racial profiling!

Today, the Supreme Court ruled on Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 immigration law. The good news is that it struck down key parts of the law, which is why it is being hailed as a victory for the Obama Administration, which brought the case to the Supreme Court. The bad news is that it upheld the “show me your papers” part that encourages racial profiling, which is why Governor Jan “Finger” Brewer is praising the ruling as a victory.

Leslie Berestein Rojas at Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) lays out what the ruling does:

Strikes down Section 3, which would make it a state crime for undocumented immigrants not to carry an alien registration document. Strikes down Section 5(C), which would make ...

By Sharkfu • 11 years ago

Notes from a bitch…pondering political expectations…

I want Missouri Governor Nixon to veto the new birth control refusal bill SB 749. Religious liberty is not threatened by the HHS rule on insurance coverage of birth control without co-pay, but the rights of Missouri workers sure as hell are under attack by this bill that would allow any employer to refuse coverage for birth control simply by claiming a moral objection.

Support for the veto of SB 749 among the masses is strong. Missourians are calling and writing the Governor daily asking him to dust off that pen and do the right thing.

Despite anti-choice theatre like the Fortnight for Freedom, this veto should be easy for Governor Nixon. He is a Democrat who ran as pro-choice ...

By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

The Modern Olympics just got a hell of a lot more modern

The BBC reports that after much speculation, Saudi Arabia will finally allow women to compete at the Olympics this year:

The public participation of women in sport is still fiercely opposed by many Saudi religious conservatives.

There is almost no public tradition of women participating in sport in the country.

Saudi officials say that with the Games now just a few weeks away, the only female competitor at Olympic standard is showjumper Dalma Rushdi Malhas.

But they added that there may be scope for others to compete and that if successful they would be dressed “to preserve their dignity”.

In practice this is likely to mean modest, loose-fitting garments and “a sports hijab”, ...

The BBC reports that after much speculation, Saudi Arabia will finally allow women to compete at the Olympics this year:

The public participation of women in sport is still fiercely opposed by many Saudi ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 11 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Thanks, Ann. If you’ve somehow been living under a rock the last week, obviously read Anne-Marie Slaughter’s much-discussed Atlantic piece. The Feministing crew will have more to say later.

Women were mentioned in less than 0.01 percent of the document that came out of last week’s Rio+20 summit–and that’s a huge problem. “You can’t have sustainable development without women.”

If you liked my convo about BDSM with Natalie Zina Walschots, you’ll probably love the new guest series “Thinking Kink” at Bitch.

Michelle Dean on Jonah Lehrer and male arrogance.

Classy: Conservative dudes rank the “hottest” conservative women in new media.

Grace Lawrence, a transgender woman from Liberia was keep in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody for nearly ...

Thanks, Ann. If you’ve somehow been living under a rock the last week, obviously read Anne-Marie Slaughter’s much-discussed Atlantic piece. The Feministing crew will have more to say later.

Women were mentioned in less than ...