We hear so much about climate change and debates over causes. But we don’t think as much about the likely social changes climate change will cause across the world. This article from BBC highlights the impacts coming for women, especially in the developing world. As we mark the International Day of the Woman, this is … Read more
Here is another example of gender fluidity in traditional, more rural locales.
I saw this post while scrolling through Facebook and it made me think about the times that I’ve done anything significant to my hair and also how much truth there was to this picture. I started to look at person blog post about females cutting their hairs or doing anything drastic to their hair like … Read more
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/opinions/increased-womens-participation-in-un-backed-syrian-peace-negotiations-bigio-vogelstein-opinion/index.html Here is some important research on women in peace negotiations. Do these numbers surprise you? This is the first I have read a news report of women’s leadership in peace in Syria. The unanswered question is how can that be scaled up to the level of international peace negotiations. And why has … Read more
The Polaris Project has been documenting the use of trafficked women from Asia in the illicit massage parlor business in the US. There are about 9,000 of these places operating in the US in rural areas, suburban strip malls and the inner cities. Their total profits annually are around … Read more
This is a powerful story of how the experience of being undocumented can affect one’s mental health. So many discussions about the Florida shooting are about mental health as a causal factor. But what about mental health as the result of unjust social policies, over-policing, and broken laws? “What Happened to Norma’s Brain?” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undocumented-immigrants-ptsd_us_5a74e117e4b06ee97af29715
Great Britain is preoccupied this week with the scandal breaking over sexual abuses perpetuated by OXFAM aid workers in Haiti, Chad, Darfur and elsewhere. Students in my class who read Somaly Mam’s book were deeply disturbed that many of the international aid workers in Cambodia were also using prostitutes and engaging in the same behaviors … Read more
In 2014, talk show hosts of The View give their thoughts on Ray Rice hitting his fiancee. Many of the hosts believed that Mr. Rice had no right to hit his fiancee even if she had hit him first. One of the hosts made a comment along the lines of, ” A woman should … Read more
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/single-mothers-poverty.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=38&pgtype=sectionfront It is refreshing to see sociologists authoring op-eds on these issues. Check this out as an important way to study a stereotype that continues to blame women for poverty. And how to write about it for a broader audience. Will policy makers listen?
I grew up in a cult. It was heaven — and hell. | Lilia Tarawa | TEDxChristchurch I tend to browse YouTube a lot and the other day I came across this TED talk. Automatically “I grew up in a cult. It was heaven – and hell,” caught my attention, as it would most people. … Read more