The power of female friendship
http://therumpus.net/2012/01/transformation-and-transcendence-the-power-of-female-friendship/
Post by ACLU Women’s Rights Project @Feministing.com
Little Girl Gets Angry at Gender-Specific Toy Colors
http://jezebel.com/5871009/video-of-little-girl-getting-pissed-off-at-gender+specific-toy-colors-will-make-your-heart-swell
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Mother Jones: Why Women Don’t Run for Office (As Much As Men Do)
In a new report, Jennifer Lawless and Richard Fox conclude that there are seven big reasons why women continue to lag so far behind men in the political world:
- Women are substantially more likely than men to perceive the electoral environment as highly competitive and biased against female candidates.
- Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin’s candidacies aggravated women’s perceptions of gender bias in the electoral arena.
- Women are much less likely than men to think they are qualified to run for office.
- Female potential candidates are less competitive, less confident, and more risk averse than their male counterparts.
- Women react more negatively than men to many aspects of modern campaigns.
- Women are less likely than men to receive the suggestion to run for office—from anyone.
- Women are still responsible for the majority of childcare and household tasks.
Read the rest at Mother Jones.
NYT: Will Women Get Ahead by Going Back to School?
Kamala Harris featured in RollingStone’s “The Quiet Ones: 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”
“Narrowly elected in 2010 despite a million-dollar barrage of attack ads directed by a group loyal to Karl Rove, Harris quickly demonstrated why the GOP’s corporate backers wanted to keep her out of office.”
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On 13 December 2011, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice launched the Gender Report Card on the International Criminal Court 2011.
Read more at IntLawGrrls.
Sophia Stewart, author, wins the Matrix copyright impingement case
“This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work.
