https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EGDMXvdwN5c Dove has a new ad about its experiment on the “beauty patch.” Supposedly they recruited a group of women and told them they were going to wear a patch that would enhance their perceptions of themselves and make them feel more beautiful. At the end of the experiment, the women were told that there … Read more
President Obama is pushing Congress to pass equal pay legislation. While gender discrimination in pay was banned by law in 1963, the sad reality is that women still earn on average 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. For Latina and African-American women, it is even less. The reasons are complex. The law will … Read more
I heard the founder of 88Bikes speaking on an interview show the other day. This is an example of a really good idea from the grass roots. He and his friend started a project to match people willing to donate $88.00 to children in the developing world who need bikes. The recipient of the bike … Read more
I think this poem is very appropriate to our current examination of !Kung women and continuities of past and present in women’s roles. HM Women, The Gatherer by Faith Williams Lightly she steps across triangles of jungle glass. Her young follow. She teaches how to hunt Country Delight sliced sandwich bread, how to follow … Read more
The actress, Deborfah Lee-Furness, is working on the Global Project, which addresses the question: what does it take for women to truly be empowered? She points out that we are still asking this question in 2014 when UN Millenium goals were supposed to be met yet women worldwide still comprise 70% of the worlds poor; … Read more
This video creatively protrays the history of women’s suffrage. It won the emmy for best instructional video. What do you think of it? Is it effective or not? How do you like the way it is done? http://youtu.be/IYQhRCs9IHM/ Holly Mathews
This was released yesterday by the New York Times. It examines the way the Chinese define internet addiction and how they treat it. While it does not address gender per se, it is being define as a particular problem of young men. This is also an example of how you can do an op-ed by … Read more
While thousands of sports fans are gearing up for the Super Bowl to be played between Denver and Seattle on February 2 in East Rutherford, New Jersey, politicans and law enforcement personnel are preparing to crack down on sex trafficking ahead of the game. New Jersey has hired a former victim of sex trafficking to help … Read more
The book Paradise Beneath her Feet argues that the divisions today are within Islam, not between secularists and religious citizens. Our class saw this firsthand.
An Immigrant Woman Could be your Boss Here is an article in the Huffington Post, by a blogger who interviewed me about immigrant women entrepreneurs. I have published 2 reports on this growing phenomenon with the Immigration Policy Center, and we have a chapter about it in our book, Immigration and Women. It will be … Read more