Gender equality

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  • Wins for women in the 2010s

     The President announced the first ever female Director of the Secret Service on March 26, 2013. Julia Pierson, a 30 year veteran of the secret service, was formerly the chief of staff and will replace former Director...

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  • What apes go bananas for sex? Humans

    It takes 1000 of these to make a baby

    In modern society, humans tend to uphold and promote monogamous relationships. From an evolutionary perspective, we may be inclined towards an egalitarian sexuality that embraces a sharing mentality, a bonding effect if you will. Christopher Ryan, a PhD of psychology...

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  • Florida ERA Bill deserves a fair hearing

    Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment in Florida are being asked to call Representative Eddie Gonzalez, the Chair of Local and Federal Affairs Committee, and voice support for House Bill 8001 which supports equal rights for both male and female...

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  • 6-year-old airs grievances over gender imbalance (Photos)

    6-year-old airs grievances over gender imbalance (Photos)

    Some combatants in the war on women are of such tender age that they probably haven’t yet heard of male chauvinism, let alone are able to spell it. One of them, a 6-year-old...

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  • Girls only

    Sexist marketing

    While we fight for gender equality, marriage equality, and racial equality, marketing doesn’t seem to help our progress at all. Ellen DeGeneres has been poking fun at manufacturers on her show, talking about new pens for women, computers...

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  • UN Women

    UN group schedules Twitter chat about women’s equality

     A United Nations agency will sponsor a Twitter chat Nov. 13 at 9 a.m. ET, UN Women announced Sunday.Questions to be discussed are:What are the most widespread and fundamental forms of inequalities women and girls face...

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  • Equality for women at home and abroad

    Equality for women at home and abroad

    I was one of the people around the world who signed a petition to nominate Malala Yousafzai for the Nobel peace prize. Malala is a young Pakistani girl who fights for the rights of girls to have an education in...

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    Speaking out: don't shush men defending abortion rights (Photos)

     Sometimes, when I speak openly about abortion, others shush me, even though I'm a giant defender of abortion rights. They tell me that since I'm not a woman, I should not be allowed to speak...

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  • Tumblr parodies Ikea Photoshopping women out of Saudi catalog

    In a case of Middle Eastern political correctness gone way too far for the Western world, Sweden-based international interior décor company Ikea has come under a firestorm of criticism after photo editors airbrushed all women out of the...

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  • Mona Lisa

    Why Women are Mean to Other Women

    Oh how natural it seems - how women, girls, females, are so damn mean to each other.  Seemingly more mean, underhanded, and brutal than men are to one another.  More deliberate.  Yet often more unconsciously, horribly, mean.Of...

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