In a meeting last week, another editor and I got to discussing the state of the food section of our paper. (Perhaps we were hungry.) He immediately went on a tangent (okay, we were hungry), talking about how he was so interested to learn recently of the history of food criticism; how the food pages, […]
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Men in Pink
Posted in culture, economy, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, tagged Adia Harvey Wingfield, Betsey Stevenson, career satisfaction, Craig Claiborne, gender roles, glass ceiling, glass escalator, New York Times, pay gap, work-life balance on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Et Tu, Beyonce?
Posted in culture, feminism, why women?, workplace, tagged "Enlightened Sexism", Beyonce, Jemhu Greene, maternal wall, Nineteen Percent, Susan Douglas, Women's Media Center on May 31, 2011| 2 Comments »
Funny the stuff you find on Facebook that you would never find on your own. For example, I discovered that Beyonce has this new video for her song, “Run the World (Girls)”. Have you seen it? If not, what you see are a bunch of strong, in charge, kick ass girls who are, um, running […]
Feminism 2010: We’ve Only Just Begun
Posted in culture, feminism, why women?, workplace, tagged "Enlightened Sexism", "The Female Eunuch", feminism, Germaine Greer, Newsweek, sexism, Susan Douglas on March 23, 2010| 7 Comments »
Are We There Yet? asks a recent Newsweek headline, with the kind of slug that leaves you with a distinctive sense of dread: In 1976, 46 women filed a landmark gender-discrimination case. Their employer was NEWSWEEK. Forty years later, their contemporary counterparts question how much has actually changed. It’s a great piece, as it shows […]