There has been overwhelming interest in AAUW’s most recent research report, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. This attention does not surprise Susan Walker Woolley, a 2010–11 American Fellow whose dissertation corroborates the report’s findings. Woolley conducted three years of ethnographic research at a large public high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. [...]
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Dear ChapStick …
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, tagged advertising, culture, Melissa Wardy, Pigtail Pals on October 26, 2011, | 21 Comments »
As we increasingly focus our attention on the harm done by sexual harassment in schools and the use of demeaning and inappropriate imagery in our culture, we found this story alarming. Reposted here with permission from Pigtail Pals‘ Melissa Wardy, read her open letter to Pfizer on the latest ChapStick campaign … Pfizer Consumer Healthcare [...]
The Potential of Princesses
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, tagged Aladdin, Arabian Nights, culture, disney, ethnic diversity, Jasmine, Jordan, Kuwait, leaders, Orenstein, President, princess, Queen, Queen Rania al-Abdullah, Royalty, Scheherazade, television, Washington D.C. on May 10, 2011, | 3 Comments »
At the recent From Princess to President: Today’s Girls, Tomorrow’s Leaders event in Washington, D.C, panel speakers discussed the ill effects of princess mythology on girls. The problem isn’t with the mythology itself, the panelists said; the problem is that it is the only ideal being aggressively marketed to young girls. Princess mythology has infected [...]
The “B Word” Versus the “N Word”
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, Women's History, tagged Anderson Cooper, culture, pop culture, Schlessinger, Shirley Sherrod, television on August 27, 2010, | 12 Comments »
I’ve been listening to the commentary about Laura Schlessinger’s use of the “N word” on her radio show. Given the recent experience of Shirley Sherrod, I tracked down a copy of Schlessinger’s conversation on Anderson Cooper’s blog to listen for myself. Sclessinger tried to argue that, among black men, using the “N word” in a [...]
Drive Time Radio and Mammy
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African American, black history, culture, education, stereotypes, women faculty, women's history on August 10, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Drive time radio can be annoying, informative, shocking, and sometimes just plain stupid. My usual 10-minute commute to the Metro has been extended this summer to 30 minutes as I have the honor of morning camp drop-off for my son and daughter. I admit to being a serial station changer. Having controls on the steering [...]
Women and Music
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged culture, entertainment, music, Women's History Month on March 19, 2009, | 7 Comments »
There are other, more qualified music experts in my family, but as a music enthusiast (some might say snob), I volunteered to write about women in music. In my opinion, just about every woman who has made it in music has broken through major barriers to get there. As in other fields, women often have [...]
Feed Me
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged cooking, culture, family, food, Women and Work on July 24, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
What’s that saying? Men are chefs, women cook? I’ve seen a lot of stuff in that vein this week, and I couldn’t resist throwing it all together in a big pot of delicious blog stew. Let’s start with this hilarious article from the Daily Mail. According to the article, manly men Gordon Ramsay and Jamie [...]
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