Gender, Politics, and Global Cultures

Posted by: Andrea Fulle Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/11/30/credit-suisse-is-raising-the-stakes-in-wall-streets-parental-leave-arms-race/ This article caught my attention because unlike most parental leave news stories, it’s from a business based source. Wall Street, not something typically associated with equality or fairness, is currently engaging in the same sort of parental leave arms race that is going on more publicly in among major … Read more

Mom’s letter to teen who taught her daughter how to skateboard is all kinds of awesome In an open letter on Twitter the mother of a 6 years-old girl thanks the teenage boy who took time to help her daughter skate (Hagerman, 2015). In the article the mother explains how it took her time to … Read more

One Group of People Is Acquiring HIV in Record Numbers, But We Don’t Talk About Them Findings from the World Health Organization indicate that transgendered women are 49  times more likely than the general population to contract HIV, making transgendered women the highest at risk population for contracting HIV (Lang 2015). The issue is complex … Read more

http://www.sciencedirect.com.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/science/article/pii/S0020729206001901?np=y Throughout my blog posts I have mainly tried to stick with articles where the main point of the article is about males and boys are being trafficked. However this article is a bit different. The main point of this article is about women and children and the different types of trafficking that they fall … Read more

Nov 30th Blog post naturally this article knows that men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus, however the old saying that refers to men and women brains of operating differently has had new evidence against it. After a study of 1400 men and women, they have found absolutely no difference in brain functions … Read more

http://www.jstor.org.jproxy.lib.ecu.edu/stable/pdf/23715413.pdf?acceptTC=true This article gives the details of abusive relationships between men and male sex workers. Like many other articles on masculinity have pointed out, there are reasons why males act out in the way that they do. The article starts out with pointing out that we live in a patriarchal society. Because we do being … Read more

November 25th Over the past 2 weeks there have been 7 reported murders in Mexico’s Quintana Roo. Quintana Roo, the largest tourist attraction in Mexico, sees nearly 14 million visitors annually, accounting for close to 1/3 of all of Mexico’s tourism. Because of this, Mexico is keeping the now 18 female Mexican deaths this year. … Read more

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/24/the-gambia-bans-female-genital-mutilation This article deals with female genital mutilation in the West African Country of the Gambia. I know it is an issue we have frequently discussed in class so I thought I would post it.  The president, Yahya Jammeh, recently announced the practice would be banned effective immediately. Supporters of the movement to end female genital … Read more

Though it is an opinion article, writer Jeff Rouner brings up a hot topic and long standing issue in video games; naked or near naked women. The sexualized female figure obviously plays on the fantasies of male consumers which is the target market, but the reasons for their inclusion is far less developed than the … Read more

Thea Cox The World Economic Forum on their report of the gender pay gap, says that “based on current trends women will not receive equal pay until 2133”. The addition of women to the workforce hasn’t really helped our cause for equality, they say women are making what men made in 2006.  According to their … Read more