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Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election, 1920” (via MinnPost)
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Binders Full of Women: A Meme That Means Something
Romney did a good job appointing women to high office in the context of a bipartisan statewide push to get him to do so as a new governor, but a terrible job in finding and promoting women to senior roles in the context of the high-paying private sector business he built himself. That may be why, by his own admission, his social power network when he came into office led to all all-male pool of job applicants. And as any woman with a job knows, getting the job is not the same a being paid the same amount as male colleagues for it — the question on the table before Romney Tuesday night, and one he ultimately punted on.
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Binders Full of Women: A Meme That Means Something
Romney did a good job appointing women to high office in the context of a bipartisan statewide push to get him to do so as a new governor, but a terrible job in finding and promoting women to senior roles in the context of the high-paying private sector business he built himself. That may be why, by his own admission, his social power network when he came into office led to all all-male pool of job applicants. And as any woman with a job knows, getting the job is not the same a being paid the same amount as male colleagues for it — the question on the table before Romney Tuesday night, and one he ultimately punted on.
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Both Campaigns Want Tonight’s Female Presidential Debate Moderator to Shut the Hell Up
Erin Gloria Ryan, jezebel.comDNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz reassured the public on Monday that she was pretty sure that during the Presidential debate on Tuesday, the candidates wouldn’t forget to talk about women like they did last time. I mean, it’s …
Simmons MBA Professor Paula Gutlove says flirting DOES NOT make women better negotiators; says it devalues and demeans women.
South African women whose work in the scientific field has helped change their communities were acknowledged by Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor (pictured above) at the Women in Science Awards in Pretoria on Friday.
Winners were presented with certificates and prize money of up to R170 000.
The Women in Science Awards seek to honour and acknowledge the country’s women’s achievements in the field of science and research and the department has hosted the event since 2003.
The categories include Fellowship for Masters and doctorate students, distinguished women scientists and distinguished young women scientists.
Speaking at the awards ceremony in Centurion on Friday night, Pandor said the awards have become a feature of South Africa’s celebration of Women’s Month and the achievement made by women in the predominantly male-dominated field of science.
“Many of us have a very esoteric view of science and really do not always make the link that it definitely has answers to many of the challenges that our societies have to address,” Pandor said.
She called on women scientists to focus on rural areas and use science to make a difference to women who are vulnerable.
“For our part as government, we really are centering science and technology in the thought of policy action of South Africa, so we are really thrilled we have been able to recognise remarkable women who are doing research and innovation, which has begun to make a significant contribution to the development of rural women,” Pandor said.
Professor Relebohile Moletsane walked away with the Distinguished Woman Scientist Award. She has published several articles and book chapters on using digital technology and digital story-telling in rural communities, with a focus on HIV/Aids education.
She said her goal was to ensure that vulnerable societies had all the necessary information about HIV/Aids and how the disease operates.
Dr Rapela Maphanga from the University of Limpopo won the Distinguished Young Women Scientist Award for her research on computer simulations of energy-storage device materials.
She has published her research findings in high profile scientific journals and is a junior associate at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy.
Maphanga has supervised to completion one PhD student, four masters and six honours students.
“I believe that the solution for most of our problems lies in science so my aim is to make the little contribution that I can to achieve change and development in our communities,” she said.
In the students’ category, seven of the 10 awards in this category went to University of Cape Town science students, with prize money ranging from R20 000 to R30 000. The students were required to use the money towards research work or buying a laptop for research purposes.
For the first time in history, every country competing in the Olympics is sending at least one woman. The runner Tahmina Kohistani, the only woman representing Afghanistan this year, talks on the Today Show about the hurdles she faced in making it to the Olympics.
Yay for women!
Hillary Clinton urges women to build democracy locally
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened the State Department’s first Women in Public Service Institute at Wellesley College Monday.
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As long as women’s natural body hair is called disgusting and inappropriate while men’s isn’t, I am a feminist.
As long as I can’t watch an episode of a popular sitcom without having to sit through multiple sexist comments or “jokes”, I am a feminist.
As long as women have to face the rational fear of being sexually assaulted every time they walk home past dark while men don’t, I am a feminist.
As long as misogyny exists in any country in this world, I am a feminist.
As long as women are being raped, then stoned to death or forced to marry their rapist, I am a feminist.
As long as companies promote men to manager when there are women who are equally as or better qualified, because they find that men look more authoritative, I am a feminist.
As long as women (her choice of clothes, her friendly nature, her weakness, her choice to drink alcohol) get blamed when men rape them, I am a feminist.
As long women’s opinions on online social networks are dismissed with phrases like “tits or gtfo”, “get back to the kitchen”, “are you pms’ing?”, I am a feminist.
As long as dressing like a women is degrading for men and as long as men are insulted with phrases like “you throw like a woman”, clearly implying that being like a woman is shameful, I am a feminist.
As long as both men are women are expected to work, but taking care of children and the household are still largely considered a woman’s job, I am a feminist.
As long as boys and girls are treated differently, expected to act differently, and surrounded by different toys and colours from the day they are born, I am a feminist.
As long as topless women aren’t allowed in public unless they’re one the cover of a men’s magazine, I am a feminist.
As long as women who have sex frequently are generally told they are “sluts”, “lacking self-respect” and “lacking morals” by both men and women, while men who frequently have sex are “just being men” and it’s “natural for them”, I am a feminist.
As long as there are places where women have to pay more for health insurance than men, I am a feminist.
As long as men experience situations with equal gender representation as female-dominated, and don’t consider a group discussion equal unless there are significantly more men then women participants (as has been proven), I am a feminist.
As long as there are men who think it’s their wife or girlfriend’s duty to have sex with him whenever he wants, I am a feminist.
As long as the word feminism (“the movement aimed at equal rights for women”) has a negative connotation, I am a feminist.
As long as misogynist people exist, I am a feminist.
We are feminists.
(Source: livefromplanetearth, via safercampus)
