Women Bare Bosoms Across the United States in Honor Of GoTopless Day
Today, across the United States, women bared their bosoms for GoTopless Day, an effort to promote a woman’s right to show her breasts in public just as men do.
Hillary Clinton Intends to Fill Half Of Her Cabinet With Women
If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, she plans to model gender equality by giving women equal representation in the Cabinet.
Ivanka Trump Says, 'My Father Is a Feminist,' Forgets to Use Scare Quotes
Today, Ivanka Trump, daughter of GOP presumptive nominee and melted Claymation villain Donald Trump, made an interesting claim. “My father is a feminist,” she told London’s Sunday Times. Oh, cool.
PayPal Advertises All-Male Gender Equality Panel
Aspirationally woke tech company PayPal is attempting to solve tech’s gender gap with an all-male panel.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tells Women to Grab 2015 By the Horns
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg accepted the Radcliffe Medal from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Friday, and in her speech, the always-inspiring 82-year-old badass advised her young female listeners to lead by example.
The French Are Incredibly Fertile, Gender Equality Plays Major Factor
Ahhh France, the country of wine, cheese, revolutions and incredibly high fertility rates.
Emma Watson Sent Steve Carell the Nicest Note About His Fashion Choices
While she wasn't at The Oscars last night, Emma Watson sure was keeping a good eye on the proceedings. And after she saw what Steve Carell was wearing, she sent him a really nice note about his choice of cufflinks for the ceremony.
President Obama Bigged Up the Ladies in India, Indians Loved It
During a speech on U.S.-India relations in New Dehli on Tuesday, President Obama said the two countries will only succeed if they empower women and the crowd of 1,500 lost their minds cheering like Beyoncé had just left the stage. Gen-der Equa-lity! Gen-der Equa-lity!
As Countries Become More Developed, So Do Women's Cognitive Abilities
Just in case you needed yet another reminder about how pressing and important the issue of gender equality is, a new study has honed in on the effect of gender equality in developing countries on men and women's cognitive ability.
In Praise of Television Peen
I watch a lot of television. From ABC to HBO, AMC to FX, Netflix and Starz and more but most of my shows are missing something — penis. Oh, there are plenty of breasts, female backsides in dim lighting or girls emulating blow jobs or back shots, but as a heterosexual women I am tired of thinking ‘Where’s the peen?’ or…
Writing in The Shriver Report, Beyoncé insists that it's time to stop pretending that we've achieved gender equality: "Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable,…
One Small Step for 'The Last of Us,' One Big Step for Gender Equality
Turns out video games are pretty close t0 ye olde Disney movies, where a female character often needs to be saved by a man. But in a new game called The Last of Us, lead female character Ellie is saving herself. User interface designer Alexandria Neonakis, who works for Naughty Dog, the company that created The Last…
Iceland Is the Still Best Place to Live if You're a Woman
If you're the type of person who makes choices according to the New York Times Travel section, you already knew Iceland was too hot to handle. The country's got some other notable qualities besides being a hip place to visit right now: it's held its position as the most egalitarian place for women to live for the…
Gender Equality Groups in the UK Push to Rid Retailers of Nudie Mags
This morning, while many coastal and lake-adjacent Americans were still busy recovering from the summer season’s first hearty dose of sun poisoning, gender equality groups and lawyers in the fog-blanketed British Isles (pip, pip, guv’nah!) launched a vigorous campaign to force retailers to comply with the Equality Act…
Film Criticism Is a Really Nerdy Boys’ Club, Study Finds
Women still have a hard time gaining traction behind the camera in Hollywood (no thanks to these paleolithic attitudes), a statistical fact underscored by a new study confirming some of your naggiest of nagging suspicions about the phallocentric film criticism dominating the splattered tomato viscera at Rotten…
Saudi Arabia Will Actually Let Girls in Private School Play Sports
Girls attending private school in Saudi Arabia will soon be allowed to participate in sports, a move that many observers see as a further indication that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is quietly trying to modernize his ultra, mega conservative country. The announcement comes on the heels of a statement last month from…
Saudi Prince: Women Should Drive Because of the Economy, Stupid
Women can drive. I mean, of course women can drive. Anyone with the required faculties can drive, and the only possible reason a government can have for divesting women of the basic human right Henry Ford gave people to own a Model T and idle away hours of their lives in rush hour traffic is to limit their means of…
Daughters of Communist Party Leaders in China Might Finally Benefit from Some Good, Old-Fashioned Nepotism
As you've watched the Chinese Communist Party leadership age over the last two decades, you've probably kept yourself awake at night fretting about who will produce the next generation of Communist propaganda. Well? Will the Politburo of tomorrow be full of more stodgy and corrupt old dudes, or, by some unforeseen…
Learn All About Lady Leader Quotas
Sorry for the buzzkill, but we can't honor International Women's Day without thinking about how fucking far we still have to go in practically every department. (Related: this exists.)
On Her Last Day as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton Stresses Gender Equality
Hillary Clinton is on her way out the door (sob), but she's leaving with a bang by reminding the Council on Foreign Relations how crucial women's rights are:
