Posts Tagged infographics

By Katie Halper • 9 years ago

Infographic: How gun background checks save women’s lives

Everytown, an organization which advocates for gun safety, published this infographic, as well as a report on how the US’s weak gun laws put domestic violence victims at risk. It found that:

Federal law does not keep guns out of the hands of abusive dating partners or convicted stalkers. Many state gun laws fail to protect domestic violence victims. Federal law and the law in most states, allows domestic abusers and stalkers to easily evade gun prohibitions by purchasing guns from unlicensed, private sellers. Forty-one states do not require all prohibited domestic abusers to relinquish guns they already own.

Check out the full infographic after the jump. 

Everytown, an organization which advocates for gun safety, published this infographic, as well as a report on how the US’s weak gun laws put domestic violence victims at risk. It found that:

Federal law does not ...
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By Katie Halper • 10 years ago

Infographic: How to win a Best Actress Oscar (spoiler alert: play a wife)

Hey ladies! If you want to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, get cast as a wife, mother, sister, daughter, or girlfriend STAT! Fellas! If you want to win an Academy Award for best Actor, get cast as a husband, father, brother, son, or boyfriend STAT an important historical figure. That’s the lesson from these two fascinating infographics at The Huffington Post.

Hey ladies! If you want to win an Academy Award for Best Actress, get cast as a wife, mother, sister, daughter, or girlfriend STAT! Fellas! If you want to win an Academy Award for best Actor, ...
By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

New study: “major improvements” in women’s op-ed representation, but more remains to be done

Our friends over at the Op-Ed Project have just released new data highlighting the results of their Byline Survey to get a sense of who is getting heard in public discourse.

Their findings shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to those who have been paying attention.  People like our very own Courtney Martin and Ann Friedman have been calling out the “woman problem” in our nation’s op-ed pages, citing cringe-worthy stats showing that women make up only 24.4 percent of the columnists at eight major syndicates, a number that’s barely moved since 1999, when it stood at 23.7 percent.  That is utterly jaw-dropping, and certainly not reflective of the countless intelligent and passionately opinionated women writers I ...

Our friends over at the Op-Ed Project have just released new data highlighting the results of their Byline Survey to get a sense of who is getting heard in public discourse.

Their findings shouldn’t come as ...