Sexism

Wall Street firm’s “Golden Pitchbook” is totally sexist, full of lies

"Don't pitch the bitch" and other pearls of wisdom from top brokers at John Thomas Financial VIDEO

Katie Mcdonough Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:48 PM UTC
Business Video, Wall Street, Sexism

Dolls for girls, science and Legos for boys: The toy aisle is still sexist

A drugstore chain declares science is for boys -- until customers fight back on Twitter

Mary Elizabeth Williams Friday, May 3, 2013 3:06 PM UTC 69
Life Gender, Sexism, Consumerism

Wikipedia’s shame

Sexism isn't the problem at the online encyclopedia. The real corruption is the lust for revenge

Andrew Leonard Monday, Apr 29, 2013 6:04 PM UTC 107
Technology wikipedia, Amand Filipacchi

GOP official’s Facebook status: She’s “hot enough to almost make me register Democrat”

A New Mexico official gets suspended for sexist social media activity -- during a meeting. It's just the beginning

Mary Elizabeth Williams Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 4:44 PM UTC 36
Life Steve Kush, Facebook, Twitter

“American women novelists” segregated by Wikipedia

Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 1:01 PM UTC 15
Media women, Women writers, Sexism

Politico reports that New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is mean, Twitter reacts

Dylan Byers' writing about women has created a Twitter maelstrom yet again

Katie Mcdonough Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 7:37 PM UTC
Media Sexism

Are female-friendly gyms sexist?

A Londoner sues over women-only hours and gets called a jerk and a "limey nutsack." But he might have a fair point

Mary Elizabeth Williams Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 3:07 PM UTC 26
Life Body Wars, Sexism, Feminism

Girl Scouts introduce game design and coding curriculum

Cookie season is over. Now, the Girl Scouts have set their sights on closing the gender gap in the gaming industry

Katie Mcdonough Monday, Apr 22, 2013 1:07 PM UTC
Technology Girl Scouts, Gaming, Video Games

New Hampshire Republican refers to women as “vaginas” in email to lawmakers

State Rep. Peter Hansen defended his use of synecdoche in subsequent messages

Katie Mcdonough Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013 1:23 PM UTC 116
Social Abortion, women, Women's Rights

Obama apologizes to Kamala Harris

The White House says he called her to apologize for his "best looking" comments

Alex Seitz-Wald Friday, Apr 5, 2013 7:00 PM UTC 50
Politics kamala harris, Barack Obama

Women over 50 are invisible

Rampant ageism and sexism have left women of a certain age virtually powerless in American society

Tira Harpaz, Feministing Friday, Apr 5, 2013 1:00 PM UTC 45
Life Feministing, Sexism, ageism, women

How to talk about a woman’s looks

The president of the United States fails the test -- again

Irin Carmon Friday, Apr 5, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 237
News kamala harris, women

Twitter to Obama: Commenting on Kamala Harris’ appearance was stupid, sexist

President Obama called Kamala Harris "by far, the best looking attorney general." It was, by far, the dumbest idea

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 9:41 PM UTC 19
Life Sexism, Barack Obama

New York Times: Christine Quinn has a temper

Readers debate: Is the story anti-woman, or pro-not being a terrible person?

Katie Mcdonough Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 4:30 PM UTC
Life Christine Quinn, Gender, Sexism

Pelosi to Salon: They had to take me down

The House minority leader talks about female leadership and whether the GOP can woo women

Irin Carmon Friday, Mar 22, 2013 6:40 PM UTC 68
Elections Nancy Pelosi, Women in politics

Fox affiliate zooms in on breasts for “Women’s Day”

A Connecticut station focused on boobs, then said it was sorry VIDEO

Prachi Gupta Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 4:20 PM UTC
Life Video, women's day, Breasts

Consumer report: Women hate Hooters a little less than they used to

A new survey finds that the chain's rebranding effort might be working -- but just the littlest bit VIDEO

Katie Mcdonough Monday, Mar 11, 2013 5:23 PM UTC
Business Video, women, men, Gender, Sex

Bringing feminist values to the workplace

For women to gain an equal footing professionally, they have to speak up -- and overcome their "impostor syndrome"

Courtney E. Martin., Feministing Friday, Mar 8, 2013 7:33 PM UTC
Social Feministing, Feminism, Sexism

I’ll tell you what’s funny

Was Seth MacFarlane's shtick really sexist? Yes, and also no — he fell afoul of the mysterious rules of comedy

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Mar 2, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 135
Oscars Seth MacFarlane, Oscars

Trashing Sheryl Sandberg

The Facebook exec’s feminist critics seem to say that if you can’t solve everyone’s problems, don’t solve anyone’s

Joan Walsh Saturday, Mar 2, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 72
Technology Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In

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