Sexism

SYSTEMIC RACISM AND THE GENDER PAY GAP is a report from the American Association of University Women that examines how systemic racism—including decades of discriminatory employment practices, intentionally inadequate legal protections, and persistent racial stereotypes—has contributed to a pay gap that remains far wider for women of color than for white women.

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By Rebecca Jane Stokes — Written on Aug 02, 2022 Fairygodboss ran a study in October of 2017. In the study, they rounded up 500 hiring professionals made up of both men and women and showed them photos of prospective female job hires. The photos included women of different shapes, sizes, hairstyles, clothing options, and races. They were asked to…

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BY ALANA SEMUELS  JUNE 7, 2022 6:00 AM EDT Sometimes when I am grocery shopping, even if I am there just for broccoli, I’ll swing by the aisle where they stock feminine products. Because, even though most of the things that disappeared during the pandemic like toilet paper, yeast, and flour have returned to the shelves,…

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BY ANNIKA BROCKSCHMIDT  MAY 16, 2022 This trailer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new documentary The End of Men has drawn a lot of mockery online—especially when it became clear that the device covering the genitals isn’t a glowing Covid test, but that the naked man standing on a pile of stones is in fact bathing his testicles in UV light—a…

Read More LAUGH AT TUCKER CARLSON’S TANNING TESTICLES DOC ALL YOU WANT, BUT THE BULGING MUSCLES AND POTENT SPERM IMAGERY IS A FASCIST DREAM

The Normalization of White Male Violence Seven summers ago, when Dylann Roof killed nine parishioners in a Charleston church, he signaled that perhaps white millennials would not, in fact, be more racially progressive than their parents or grandparents. Here, again, the hard truth that progress is not linear: Payton Gendron, the Buffalo shooter, is 18 years old…

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