John McCain's campaign could be panicking or politicking with its claim that sexism lies beneath any questions about Sarah Palin's past.
From Hillary Clinton’s many campaign stops on Main Street to the executive suites on Wall Street, 2008 started off with plenty of promise for working women hoping to see their peers reach new heights.
Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the national debate over what is and isn't acceptable to say in public.
Two former Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa cocktail servers have filed a $70 million sex discrimination lawsuit against the casino, saying it humiliated costumed "Borgata Babes" by imposing weight limits, encouraging breast augmentation surgery and emphasizing looks over job performance.
Sotomayor, if confirmed, will be the first openly racist and sexist Supreme Court justice in more than 65 years. The last being Justice James McReynolds, who was appointed in 1914 and served into the 1940s.
Detractors have railed against Sonya Sotomayor's "bias" and "prejudice" as a "wise Latina woman." The history of SCOTUS is its legal impartiality and reasonable lack of prejudice, they claim, yet it was white male bias and prejudice that ruled women were unfit to become attorneys …
Hillary Clinton is not our first female secretary of state, but she is our first explicitly feminist one. She's been an iconic figure in the movement for women's rights globally ever since she gave her historic 1995 speech at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing.
As Judge Sonia Sotomayor backs down from her previous "wise Latina" statements, and tries to deflect attention from her obvious (and correct) belief that a person's background shapes their perception, it is striking that she is doing so in the face of questioning by largely white …
Sarah Palin is unqualified. She is at a minimum intellectually incurious. She is unethical. And calling these things for what they are is not an anti-feminist act. Nor is Sarah Palin the individual the real issue.
Since the announcement of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, some in the media have engaged in sexist and racist attacks against her. Attacks have been overt and blatant.
40 million pounds might make these pigs shut up for good! At first she was told she had a great chance to become a partner but they made it clear that was not their intentions when they started to give her secretarial work....
How can so many American feminists have come out against a burqa ban in France (as they largely have this past month) when the burqa, along with other excessively modest religious garb, appears to be a classic tool of gender oppression? The answer is that singling out the burqa …
New research suggests sexist jokes and accompanying humor are associated with mental mechanisms that could predispose violence and battering against women.
The controversy over Skids and Mudflap isn't just because they're pointless characters; they're pointless characters who sum up the worst of Michael Bay's excesses, and serves as another example of how Hollywood seems to insist on dealing with POCs.
Her father, also a gondolier, has doubts about her participation in this historically male tradition: "I still think being a gondolier is a man's job, but I am sure that with experience Giorgia will be able to do it easily," he said.
In October last year, al-Shabab ordered a 13-year-old girl to be stoned to death in public in the southern city of Kismayo. She was accused of adultery after reporting she had been raped by three men. (source)
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I was at a party recently and noticed something strange. A large number of the men at the party (mainly middle class-to-upper middle class Hispanic and White men in their 30s) were unemployed or making considerably less money than their wives.
Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.
And while there are justifications, yes, for why women do not do more to report on the suffering of fellow women worldwide, there is absolutely no justification whatsoever for why we do not do more to report on the empowerment of women worldwide.
It is hard, however, to take conservatives seriously when one considers that each and every day, real players in the rudderless conservative movement -- powerful talk-radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits, columnists, and bloggers -- throw aside the reasonable boundaries of a ci …
It speaks for itself.
San Diego Comic-Con, coming next month, is one of the geek holy days, but it's not for female geeks, apparently. At least, a new Comic-Con contest was for boys only, and the L.A. Times published an insulting "guide for girls."
In India, China and sub-Saharan Africa, millions upon millions of women are missing. They are not lost, but dead: victims of violence, discrimination and neglect.
You joked on national television about Palin's teenage daughters "getting knocked up" by professional baseball player Alex Rodriguez or solicited by the prostitute-addicted former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer because it's acceptable in your social and professio …
Whether the object of their dictatorial pedantry is based upon what "empathic" judges, politicians, and social activists weave according to rules laid down by a penumbra, fashion from the love of power, or create from leftist ideology, liberals have something new and ridiculo …
Conservatives say her strong identification with such race-based approaches to the law is perhaps the strongest argument against her confirmation, contending that her views put her outside an evolving consensus that such race-conscious public policy is growing obsolete.