By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Friend of the site Tanya Paperny on male privilege in literature.

A Japanese company argues it doesn’t have to abide by New York City’s law that an equal number of bathrooms be provided for male and female employees because they don’t hire many female employees.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is still against gay marriage, but *might* be open to banning so-called gay conversation therapy. He might.

If you’re talking about what Adria Richards did and not about the backlash against her, you’re having the wrong conversation.

That 40 Hottest Women in Tech list? The guy who wrote it has conscience, kinda.

For the first time ever, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus is composed of

Friend of the site Tanya Paperny on male privilege in literature.

A Japanese company argues it doesn’t have to abide by New York City’s law that an equal number of bathrooms be provided for male and female ...
By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Deja Vu: The “retro wife,” 10 years later

New York Magazine’s recent cover story “The Retro Wife” has raised hackles here, there, and everywhere. At Feministing, we shared the smart thoughts of Shannon Drury of The Radical Housewife yesterday.

But this is hardly the first time a prominent woman writer has tackled the “opt out” subject. A decade ago, Lisa Belkin, now of the Huffington Post, wrote a feature story for the New York Times Magazine called “The Opt-Out Revolution.” She reported essentially the same thing as Lisa Miller did for New York. With time, though, Belkin has found some additional wisdom. And she wrote about it in a thoughtful reflection ...

New York Magazine’s recent cover story “The Retro Wife” has raised hackles here, there, and everywhere. At Feministing, we shared the smart thoughts of Shannon Drury of ...
By Amy S. Choi • 11 years ago

Don’t make me a prop in your feminism

A few weeks ago I was running around the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, supporting a book I’ve been working on for the past year. The book, The Athena Doctrine, will come out on April 16, and I’m pretty excited about it.

It’s a labor of love — after months of research and travel, my partners (both men) and I have concluded that feminine thinking is crucial to successful modern leadership. We surveyed 64,000 people and traveled more than 100,000 miles around the globe, asking people to group traits such as empathy, communicativeness, intuition, patience, assertiveness, openness, and honesty as “feminine” or “masculine,” then asking which of those qualities were most important in leaders. Universally, across age, sex, and ...

A few weeks ago I was running around the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, supporting a book I’ve been working on for the past year. The book, The Athena Doctrine, will come out on April ...
By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

Guest post: Leaning in doesn’t work for everyone

This is a guest post from Tira Harpaz. Harpaz is a graduate of Princeton University and Fordham Law School and the mother of three children. She was formerly a Senior Attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell and she is currently the founder and president of CollegeBound Advice, an independent college counseling firm.  This is her first article for Feministing.

Lean In. It seems like everyone is talking, blogging or arguing about it. Sheryl Sandberg’s well-written, chatty, and informative book purports to give useful advice for women of all age brackets, “from those who are just starting out to those who are taking a break and may want to jump back in.” However, Sandberg seems to miss the mark for a certain ...

This is a guest post from Tira Harpaz. Harpaz is a graduate of Princeton University and Fordham Law School and the mother of three children. She was formerly a Senior Attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell and ...
By Chloe Angyal • 11 years ago

Feminism, fat, feelings, forgiveness

My dear readers,

I want to tell you a story, and after I tell you this story, I’m going to ask for your forgiveness.

When I was a sophomore in college, not that many years ago, I was voted artistic director of my all-girls dance company. I’d joined in my first few weeks on campus, so I’d been a member for a year-and-a-half by the time I became AD. Something that I noticed in that time was how much negative body talk happened in our company – in front of the mirror in rehearsal, in the dressing room right before a show, and when we were just hanging out together. This wasn’t entirely surprising; a lot of us had been dancing our ...

My dear readers,

I want to tell you a story, and after I tell you this story, I’m going to ask for your forgiveness.

When I was a sophomore in college, not that many years ago, I was voted ...
By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

By way of an update to our earlier post about inclusion at women’s colleges,  a trans woman has just been accepted to the Simmons class of 2017.

On Steubenville and imagining justice outside the courts.

Adria Richards has been fired and is receiving death and rape threats for calling out sexism during a tech conference. Read the background and #supportAdria on Twitter.

“In fact, men are far more likely to admit carrying out a rape or gang rape, than a victim is to report it. Perpetration, it seems, does not carry the same stigma as being a victim.”

Check out this review of “Girl Model”, a documentary chronicling the experience of a 13-year-old Siberian model who ...

By way of an update to our earlier post about inclusion at women’s colleges,  a trans woman has just been accepted to the Simmons class of 2017.

On Steubenville and imagining justice outside the courts.
By Syreeta McFadden • 11 years ago

All Malala Everything

Let Malala Yousafzai be a reminder to all of us of strength, courage and unflinching determination to survive and succeed in a world that demands you to fail. The artists at Zen Pencils have created a beautiful and moving comic of Malala’s story, centering around her profound conviction of the right to educate girls in Pakistan.

As you may recall, Yousafzai was shot by Taliban gunmen for her advocacy work to educate Pakistani girls. Throughout her recovery, she has maintained her determination to secure her education so that she can continue to fight for the rights of girls in Pakistan.  She is a nominee for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. This week, after six month recovery in the hospital, Malala has ...

Let Malala Yousafzai be a reminder to all of us of strength, courage and unflinching determination to survive and succeed in a world that demands you to fail. The artists at Zen Pencils have created

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