While we celebrate the large and even small triumphs of the women’s rights movement, sometimes we want to see the bigger picture. On a worldwide scale, is life improving for women? The World Bank says yes, but at a painfully slow rate. As it stands right now, “women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, produce 50 ...
With liberty and justice for… some. The United States is the only developed nation that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This international bill of rights for women has been around since 1980 and acknowledges that gender equality does not yet exist. CEDAW’s agenda includes ...
Two big changes regarding transgender rights have been proposed this week. One would legally recognize transgendered citizens as a third gender, and one would refuse to recognize a sex change. Let’s see if you can guess which law was proposed in the US and which in Pakistan. If you guessed that Pakistan proposed recognizing a ...
Divorce and the rights of women to property and even remarriage don’t exist in Malta. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is urging that this be changed. Specifically they want “to introduce and support vigorously legislation which permits divorce, allows women to remarry after divorce and grants women and men the ...
Happy International Women’s Day! As we move forward into the wonderful future before us, take some time to remember the women who helped us get where we are today. (History is never entirely accurate. How many errors can you spot?) Contact the author here: editors@morningquickie.com
Facebook has finally caught up with the rest of the world by allowing “civil union” and “domestic partnership” to be a person’s relationship status. These are legal terms used to describe certain marriage-like contracts that are not actually “marriage”. In most of the world civil unions are reserved for same-sex couples, but in places like ...
Women were never intended to be protected under the Constitution, said Justice Scalia in an interview with California Lawyer. He said the document allows for discrimination on the basis of sex or sexual orientation. That’s right — according to him it is perfectly legal to say “No, I won’t hire you because your breasts will ...
In Afghanistan it is so important that families have at least one boy that they often will disguise a daughter as a son. Reasons for this include better access to education, allowing the “boy” outside the home to work or take more part in community life, and giving some kudos to the family for having ...
When I explained to a friend of mine that this website is a feminist site he was shocked. He just didn’t believe me. What was he expecting? Anti-man diatribes? Militant lesbians? Kill the patriarchy messages? Feminism has changed and evolved over the years and it’s not what a lot of people expect it to be. ...
Money, romance, independence, and the rights of women are central to this Victorian-style novel, The Second Mrs. Darcy. It catches the reader’s attention immediately by proclaiming to a newly widowed young woman that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
