Tag Archives: discrimination
Prominent women’s colleges unwilling to open doors to trans women
Tweet Last summer, Calliope Wong, then a high school senior, began an open-letter campaign regarding the admissions policies of Smith College. Calliope had hoped to apply for admission to their undergraduate program. But as a trans woman, Calliope encountered an admissions policy at Smith with such prohibitively high demands and so many inconsistencies that her [...]
Also tagged admissions, Campus, Justice, Policy, trans rights, university, women's colleges Comments closed
Chart of the Day: The gender wage gap widened last year
Tweet A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research shows that our progress in closing the gender wage gap has stalled–and actually backslid last year. The ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly full-time earnings was 80.9 percent in 2012, a decline of more than one percentage point from 2011. In fact, you have to go [...]
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Tweet If you haven’t yet, go read @ClinicEscort‘s account of explaining the importance of abortion rights to an Amtrak-full of students heading home from Saturday’s “March for Uterine Conscription” (scroll down to January 26). The NYT on the BS lawsuits challenging religious groups’ responsibility to provide insurance that covers birth control under the new health [...]
Also tagged birth control, Clinic Escort, Contraception, daily feminist cheat sheet, Downton Abbey, eating disorders, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, maternal health, Mean Girls, Obama, pay discrimination, Queer Rights, Tina Fey Comments closed
Weekly Feminist Reader: Mother’s Day Edition