Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of an average-sized woman. So things should basically fit into my hands, especially the things I need to do my work on an average day. Like my laptop bag. My longest finger (the middle one, I’m not ...
Is the wage gap just caused by women picking the wrong career?
Santa gets all the credit. He hears what people want for Christmas and personally delivers it, but I bet Mrs. Claus is the brains behind the whole operation. This year it’s time for Mrs. Claus to share in some of the glory. While Santa is off doing his thing and eating all the cookies ...
Women who work full time are already seeing their wages grow at twice the rate of men’s, according to the UK’s Office of National Statistics. If this rate keeps up, women’s pay will overtake men’s by the year 2020. That would be 50 years ahead of previous forecasts. This is just a prediction, and it may ...
Any article that is entitled, “In the Workplace, What Can Women Learn From Men?” is a surefire way to piss me, and all of my other feminist buddies, the fuck off. But, apparently, The Huffington Post thought it was a grand idea. Before I flip, I must point out that their idea was interesting. It ...
Winning the fight for equal pay is central to reaching gender equality. But what if the wage gap wasn’t just the result of gender discrimination? What if we women were creating it? Kay Hymowitz argues that women are choosing to work less hours on less demanding jobs than men, especially when they’ve started a family. ...
Men were hit hard in the recession, but they have recovered far faster than women with job growth and rates of unemployment decreasing. “The employment gap has widened again in favor of men during the recovery,” according to a report released by the Pew Research Center. Men may have more to make up for since ...
Since women entered the workforce they have been paid less than their male peers. At times, measly pay was passed off as a war relief effort, others it was because women’s jobs were considered unskilled; some women were even blamed for not bargaining for higher wages while countless others were edged out of their jobs ...
Feminism has grown from a fringe movement to a way of life. While most people understand the ideals and support them, whether or not they use the F-word, there are the people who are convinced that Feminists want to take over the world — rather like an alien invasion. The iconic image of Feminists are ...
Women have made great strides towards evening the playing field in education and the workplace, but we still can’t wave the equality flag when some places are noticing these changes more than others. While it may be hard to measure sex equality, data has been extracted from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
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...
