By Marguerite Ward and Rachel Premack — 2021
Since microaggressions are so subtle, it’s often hard to know if you’re committing one or if you’re on the receiving end.
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Women with disabilities are often doubly penalized—for being women and for being disabled.
We are told female athletes are paid less than men because they generate less money. But that will always be the case if women’s sports aren’t marketed properly.
On Friday, the US Women’s National Soccer Team sent a powerful message, using the backdrop of International Women’s Day and filing a lawsuit that accused the governing body for US soccer of gender discrimination.
All 28 players on the U.S. women's soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit on Friday.
The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other.
The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.
It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
When workers’ emotions deviate from what’s expected of their gender, they are often left to process the backlash on their own.
Feminism, when you look at it as Gloria Steinem does, as the recognition of the full humanity and full equality of both men and women, is peace work