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Funding Issues Force Ph.D. Programs to Adapt
Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, and particularly since the economic collapse of 2008, much of the funding for Ph.D.s has been reduced or is no longer available.if things don’t change,...
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Judge Gives $600,000 in Traffickers’ Assets to Victims
Last week, U.S. district judge Lynn Hughes set an important legal precedent in the fight against human trafficking in the U.S. He ruled that five teenaged survivors of sex slavery in Houston will...
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Local New Orleans Activist Challenges NYTimes Magazine’s Depiction of the...
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Sexual Objectification, Part 1: What is it?
This is the first part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. Around since the 1970s and associated with curmudgeonly second-wave feminists, the...
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Magic Mike: Old Sexism in a New Package
Magic Mike is “wildly overperforming” because women and gay men are going to see it in droves. Thank you Hollywood executives for finally noticing that there’s plenty of money to be made off of...
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Sexual Objectification, Part 2: The Harm
This is the second part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1). After nearly three decades, the feminist “sex wars” are back. This...
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Sexual Objectification, Part 3: Daily Rituals to Stop
This is the third part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1, Part 2). This post outlines four damaging daily rituals of...
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Sexual Objectification, Part 4: Daily Rituals to Start
This is the fourth part in a series about how girls and women can navigate a culture that treats them like sex objects. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) Daily Rituals to Start This post details some daily...
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On “Having It All”
Marissa Mayer’s ascendency to the helm of Yahoo! while seven months pregnant has caused a media stir. Mayer’s comment, “my maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I’ll work throughout it,” has...
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Explaining Sexism 101 to Ali Velshi
I don’t want to be writing this post. I was hoping this Labor Day would truly be free of labor, but I woke up to another dismissive Tweet from CNN Senior Business Correspondent Ali Velshi that compels...
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Mitt Romney and the 47% Meme
This meme is wildly dishonest since people pay a host of other federal, state, and local taxes. It's about as honest as saying a person doesn't eat vegetables because she only eats carrots, celery,...
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President Obama on Modern Day Slavery
On Tuesday, President Obama gave a speech on human trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference that no doubt elevated the priority of this policy in a way that only a presidential...
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2012 Election Sexism Watch #10: “Much More Ladylike”
In case you missed it, Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin has again raised the ire of those who care about gender justice by stating that his opponent, Senator Claire McCaskill, was “much more...
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The Science of Lady Parts and the GOP
Last Thursday, Republican Representative and Tea Party favorite, Joe Walsh (R-Ill), told reporters that when it comes to abortion, “there’s no such exception as life of the mother” because of ”advances...
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Rape and Other “Gifts from God”
During a debate this past Tuesday, Indiana Republican senate nominee, Richard Mourdock, made the case against the rape exception for abortions: “I’ve struggled with it myself for a long time, but I...
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Football Star Lawrence Taylor Gets Off Again
Never mind that Cristina Fierro was 16 years old. Never mind that she had been beaten by her trafficker, with fresh marks on her face, and was in a state of panic. Football Hall of Famer, Lawrence...
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Celebrating Kwanzaa
It’s two days before Christmas, and many friends and family members are pulling their hair out with last-minute shopping as they brave the malls to scavenge bargain remains. Sound familiar? Many...
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Dear Kelsey Weaver and Gianna Anile,
[Trigger Warning] Your former best friend is the victim in the Steubenville, Ohio rape trial. She was very drunk and refused to leave that party with you last August when you were concerned about her...
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Almost half of the world’s population is younger than 25 years old, and it seems like everyone is talking about the Millennials but not talking to them. And it is even rarer that we hear from them....
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