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  • June 2008

    • Inside Academia, Subtler Sexism

      newser  |  Inside Higher Ed  |  Jun 15, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      Inside Academia, Subtler Sexism

      Gender discrimination at research universities is surely much better than it was in decades past, but a study based on interviews of female faculty finds that sexism remains on campus, Inside Higher Ed reports. While overt shows of bias are rare, a host of subtler, “deeply entrenched inequities” have replaced them. Noted by the report are: More »

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      college  • higher education  • sexism  • gender discrimination  • academia  • gender bias

    • Sexism? Media Disagree With Clinton Backers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 13, 08 7:16 AM CDT

      Sexism? Media Disagree With Clinton Backers

      Now that Hillary Clinton has suspended her presidential campaign, her most ardent supporters are hitting out at television news, proposing boycotts and setting up websites in response to allegedly sexist coverage. But as the New York Times reports, many in the media see little evidence of sexism. Rather, they accuse the ex-candidate of having used a few glaring examples to drum up support for a faltering campaign. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • cable TV  • Fox News  • sexism  • MSNBC  • media criticism  • television news

    • How About a Sex Speech, Obama?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 12, 08 8:27 AM CDT

      How About a Sex Speech, Obama?

       It’s a shame that Hillary Clinton never gave a speech about gender to match Barack Obama’s speech about race, writes Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. So why not make that speech yourself, Barack? Kristof even has the talking points for you: Racism is deeper, but sexism may be wider. More Americans say they’d vote for a black man than a woman. Biases are stealthy. Americans don’t mean to discriminate based on gender; but the subconscious harbors stereotypes. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Obama 2008  • Clinton 2008  • gender  • sexism  • gender politics  • gender bias

    • Sex Backlash Is Mostly Sexist

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Jun 4, 08 2:36 PM CDT

      Sex Backlash Is Mostly Sexist

      The masses have spoken: Sex and the City is a success, a tentpole, and with a $56 million opening weekend, a blockbuster even. But if you hear men talk about it, you’d think it was the most horrible thing to ever happen to cineplexes, writes Ramin Setoodeh. They grow angry and annoyed, as though they resent these girls hijacking a summer that rightfully belongs to Iron Man, Hulk, and Indiana Jones. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • sexism  • Sex and the City  • summer  • media criticism  • Carrie Bradshaw

    • Campaign Carnage Casualty: Democrats' Chances

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 3, 08 5:15 PM CDT

      Campaign Carnage Casualty: Democrats' Chances

      Richard Cohen did not enjoy covering the 2008 Democratic primaries, and he writes in the Washington Post about everything he “loathed” about the race that “eroded the standing of both candidates”: The racism: Cohen is “stunned” that so many people came out to vote against a black man and calls the fact that they admitted it “frightening.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • racism  • sexism

    • A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 1, 08 7:56 AM CDT

      A Call for a Clinton Speech on Sexism

      The time is ripe for Hillary Clinton to speak out on gender discrimination openly and honestly, writes Anna Holmes in the New York Times . After she ends her bid for the White House, such a move wouldn’t be called a political stunt, and would afford her the opportunity “to speak with courage and conviction,” as Barack Obama did in his much-admired speech about race. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • sexism  • speech  • gender discrimination

  • May 2008

    • Construction Oglers Get an Eyeful

      newser  |  New Zealand Herald  |  May 23, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Construction Oglers Get an Eyeful

      Some wolfish construction workers got an eyeful of a sheep without clothing, the New Zealand Herald reports, when a female Israeli tourist apparently fed up with their whistling got naked as she used an ATM in downtown Kerikeri. "She gave the explanation that she had been pestered by New Zealand men," a local policeman said. "She's not an unattractive looking lady." More »

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      tourism  • sexism  • New Zealand  • nudity  • ATM  • public nudity

    • Clinton's Sexism Charges 'Insulting'

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 23, 08 10:50 AM CDT

      Clinton's Sexism Charges 'Insulting'

      Hillary Clinton’s claims of misogyny this week were cheap shots that history’s greatest women never would have uttered, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . Suggesting that sexism is costing her the nomination is “insulting” and “manipulative”—it paints other candidates’ supporters as biased—it’s false, and ultimately, Noonan notes, it is “undermining of the position of women.” More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • sexism  • Peggy Noonan  • misogyny  • women in office

    • Hillary Endgame Isn't a Battle in Gender War

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 21, 08 6:06 PM CDT

      Hillary Endgame Isn't a Battle in Gender War

      Women who treat Hillary Clinton's candidacy as a feminist symbol and see sexism in calls for her to quit don't quite make sense to Jonathan Chait, writing in the Los Angeles Times . "People of my generation tend to have a less personal view of Clinton," the 36-year-old writes. "She's not us, she's not our ex-wife, she's just a politician." More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • sexism  • feminism  • Gloria Steinem  • Jonathan Chait

    • Clinton Run at Glass Ceiling Leaves Mixed Legacy

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 19, 08 10:43 AM CDT

      Clinton Run at Glass Ceiling Leaves Mixed Legacy

      While some observers look at the waning Hillary Clinton campaign and see a milestone in the march of gender equality—“a historic if incomplete triumph”—others, especially Clinton’s female supporters, see “a depressing reminder” of lingering sexism. The New York Times examines the mixed legacy of the first viable presidential run by a woman. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • gender  • first lady  • sexism

    • 'Poor Hillary' Refrain Has Hillary-Like Staying Power

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 16, 08 3:08 PM CDT

      'Poor Hillary' Refrain Has Hillary-Like Staying Power

      There’s Hillary Clinton, writes Libby Copeland in the Washington Post , and then there’s “Poor Hillary.” Though Barack Obama destroyed her “inevitability,” she continues to quixotically pursue the Democratic nomination, touting the power of “grit” against arithmetic, and moving op-ed writers, news anchors and conservative talking heads to raise another chorus of “poor Hillary”—“an attempt," Copeland notes, "at death by condescension.” More »

    • Farewell to Hillary, and to Sexism

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  May 15, 08 12:24 PM CDT

      Farewell to Hillary, and to Sexism

      Hillary Clinton will almost certainly not be the Democratic nominee for president, and the end of her campaign is a relief for Marie Cocco in the Washington Post —but not for political reasons. The end of the Democratic primary, she writes, will also put to rest the sexist rhetoric of Clinton's opponents and the media, who have called her a "she-devil," "whore," and worse. More »

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      Hillary Clinton  • election 2008  • women  • sexism  • feminism

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Chelsea Surprised by Sexism

      newser  |  WRAL  |  Mar 30, 08 11:44 AM CDT

      Chelsea Surprised by Sexism

      Once and possibly future first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Friday that she "really didn't get how much sexism there was in this country" until the New Hampshire primary campaign, when someone told her he didn't think a woman could be commander in chief, and some men disrupted a campaign rally to stand up and tell her mother: "Iron my shirt."  More »

    • Clinton Supporters See Sexist Backlash

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 29, 08 8:51 AM CDT

      Clinton Supporters See Sexist Backlash

      Many women who support Hillary Clinton—and even some who don't—find that the New York senator's bid for president has unleashed unsettling sexist hostility in the workplace and elsewhere, the Wall Street Journal reports. A woman shouted at by a stranger for her Hillary bumper sticker says the "level of venom" always takes her by surprise. More »

    • Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST

      Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working out, reports the AP. But some students complain that the new policy is sexist or unfair. More »

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      Islam  • athlete  • exercise  • Harvard  • sexism  • Muslim  • Muslim women  • gym  • Muslim Americans

  • January 2008

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