Tag Archives: Money
Are there alternatives to the failing national reproductive rights organizing model?
My post last week about how national organizations let abortion rights be used as a pawn in the budget fight has generated some interesting questions. Most important and challenging, I think: so what do we do? What’s the answer? If our current organizing model is failing us, what should we be doing instead? I wish [...]
Also tagged Deep Thoughts, Nonprofits, Online Organizing Comments closed
New documentary showcases attempts to profit off myths about female sexual pleasure
Orgasm Inc is a documentary that exposes big pharma’s attempts to profit off of myths about female sexual pleasure. It’s shocking and incredible the blatant way that pharmaceutical companies are involved in the creation of medical problems that they can then solve with their new drugs and tools. That’s right: for-profit pharmaceutical companies CREATE medical [...]
Less than 10% of the World’s Billionaires Are Women
Various studies have been coming out over the last six months noting the gender disparity in the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes reported that of 1000 billionaires in the world only 14 are women; while TrendHunter claims that of 946 billionaires, only 86 are women, so either way it’s a range between 1 and 9 percent [...]
Also tagged Finances, Financial Matters, Sexism Comments closed
Yes, Virginia, there is a wage gap
Last week, BNet, a CBS-run business website, ran an article by Penelope Trunk entitled “A Salary Gap Between Men and Women? Oh Please.” The article suggests that Trunk doesn’t really understand, or doesn’t want to think very hard, about how inequality and discrimination function in the workplace. Trunk takes on the widely acknowledged reality that [...]
Also tagged Uncategorized, Wage Gap, Work Comments closed
Not Oprah’s Book Club: The Soul of Money