Mother Jones Magazine has put together a pretty incredible study,the “Iraq Effect,” led by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. My one gripe is that there is very little detail on women, but that’s always my gripe (and [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 28, 2007
Office Of Women’s Health Budget Cut
First thing’s first – apologies for being a little MIA – I’ve been putting a lot of work into the March events listings on FeministEvents. Take note of the panel with Amanda Marcotte on political blogging going down this weekend!
So now that I”m back to the regular blogosphere world of news and such, [...]
February 26, 2007
Feminist Events
Happy almost Women’s History Month!
For celebration purposes, and also as a continuation of a project I started as an intern at a feminist organization, I have decided to launch Feminist Events, an events listing page. Check it out, link it, and email anything you know that’s going down to feministevents (at) gmail (dot) com!
February 23, 2007
Women Invented Weapons
Perhaps this image should be reversed…
Turns out that women were probably the original innovators of weapons. In studies of West African Chimps, only women and (ahem) immature males made and used weaponry. The researchers have hypothesized that women used weapons to compensate for their lesser body mass by protecting themselves and also [...]
February 22, 2007
Equal Pay for Equal Game
Wimbledon has decided, after 123 years of discrimination, to pay women tennis the same prize earnings as men. When women started playing in Wimbledon in 1884, the winner received a silver flower basket worth 20 guineas and the male winners got a gold prize worth 30 guineas. Last year Roger Federer took home $60,000 more [...]
February 21, 2007
Parental Consent… to Give Birth?
An Italian judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl to have an abortion because her parents want her to. In Italy parents have the right to decide the fate of their underaged daughters’ pregnancies, whether it means forcing her to carry it to term or forcing an abortion.
I do think we have a [...]
February 21, 2007
South Dakota Abortion Ban Rejected! And Other Good News
The South Dakota bill that would ban all abortions except in the case of rape, incest, the threat of injury to a woman’s health or life (thanks for throwing us a bone, but no cigar) was voted down 8-1 by a state Senate committee. This surprises me a bit, since it originally passed through [...]
February 17, 2007
Calling a Spade a Spade
I’m always impressed by A Bird and a Bottle and especially bowled over with today’s “Drugs Are Bad Unless You Want to Be a Soldier”
According to the Defense Department (via the AP), the Army and Marine Corps have been granting swelling amounts of “waivers” for recruits with criminal backgrounds. Most of the waivers are [...]
February 16, 2007
F-Word
“Feminism is a bad word” is old news. Or not.
The detractors of first female president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, have been raking her over the feminist coals. In a refreshing pro-feminist report from the Harvard Crimson, Daniel J. Hemel writes:
“The feminist takeover of Harvard is imminent,” cries Heather MacDonald of the [...]
