Tag: feminism

A law student at the University of Texas was forced to reflect on “toxic masculinity” as a punishment for harassment.

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday told young African leaders in Johannesburg, South Africa, that he would like to see more women enter the political fray because he is increasingly frustrated with men.

On the doorstep of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 25-year anniversary as a Supreme Court justice, Felicity Jones will portray her early work in the fight for gender equality.

A new job listing for Portland State University seeks to fill a teaching position with a “practitioner of feminist activism.”

A new measure unveiled in Afghanistan in July to prohibit government health personnel from performing “invasive and medically meaningless vaginal and anal exams” on women and girls to ascertain whether they are “virgins” is a step in the right direction to protect women’s rights, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said this week in a statement welcoming the policy.

Ireland’s feminist culture minister is pushing a policy to ensure that half of all plays staged in Ireland are written by women within five years as part of a broader “gender equality” campaign.

CNN host Chris Cuomo called President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh a sexist snub Monday night — just days after the network denigrated Judge Amy Coney Barrett with several tone-deaf profiles focusing more on her looks and family life than her legal career.

A professor at the University of Tulsa is concerned that a popular YouTube talk show about buffalo wings is sexist because it hasn’t had enough female guests.

Iran’s hardline Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said Sunday he was “ashamed” to speak of the fact that women were permitted to watch a televised match of their soccer team competing at the 2018 World Cup in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium.

A professor at Stony Brook University argued last week that black men shouldn’t be allowed to speak in public until they have studied black feminist literature.

A professor at the storied and prestigious Cambridge University attended a recent campus event almost entirely naked to promote feminism.

A professor at the University of Memphis named her two cats as the “co-authors” of her recent research paper, including one that had died.

An avowedly feminist bookstore in Portland, OR, is closing its doors this week, saying it is unable to disentangle itself from a foundational ideology of “white supremacy.”

For the first time in nearly 40 years, Iranian women were permitted to enter Iran’s Azadi Stadium on Wednesday to watch a broadcast of the country’s second World Cup match (against Spain), following the regime’s decision to relax a ban on females at sporting events.

Northeastern is distancing itself from a professor who recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post that asked, “why can’t we hate men?”

Iranian women are experiencing the freedom to attend mixed sporting events during the World Cup events in Russia without facing the fear or actuality of being punished or experiencing jail time as they would for doing the same thing in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A women’s studies researcher says she examined the genitals of 10,000 dogs for her study on canine “rape culture” this month.

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry and current ESPN reporter Sarah Spain got in a huge Twitter fight on Monday over sexism, feminism, and what they did to get where they are.

Abortion industry lobbying giant NARAL tweeted its good wishes to “pro-choice” dads for doing their part to raise “future generations of feminists,” but got slammed for what many viewed as a distorted view of the day to honor men who give life.

Feminist scholars are defending a female professor who is facing a Title IX investigation over alleged sexual misconduct in a reversal of their normal approach of believing victims.

In a new editorial, a former Miss America contestant noted that the recently canceled bikini competition wasn’t “demeaning.” Instead, she claims the competition was “inherently feminist.”

A programme at a Swedish open-air swimming bath in Malmö that eliminated gender-separate areas to encourage transgender bathers has resulted in men taking the opportunity to stare at naked women. The programme, called “Queer Kallis”, is held on the first Monday

A video purportedly showing Saudi Arabian officials issuing a driver’s license to a female driver is making the rounds on social media Monday.

A journalist has been allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.

In a bizarre essay on Thursday, the New Yorker offers seven signs that “your man’s masculinity is non-toxic,” including the fact that he promotes women in the workplace, drinks white wine, and cries during Pixar movies.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia are extending a crackdown on women’s rights activist, weeks before the country is set to lift a ban on female drivers.

A short documentary from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) explores the growing trend of intellectual intolerance at Wellesley College.

Pro-transgender advocacy is a tornado of incoherent claims and political intimidation, says a far-left feminist author who volunteered to write a review of a new book about the transgender ideology. 

Feminist scholar Julia Coffey of the University of Newcastle in Australia was shocked when she learned that men care about their physical appearances.

Sweden has been told to ban parties calling for tighter immigration controls following a Council of Europe report urging the nation to criminalise support for “racist” groups.

A professor of education at Stanford University argues in a recent academic journal article that the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons perpetuates white privilege.

The New School, a progressive private university in Manhattan, offers a course this semester in “feminist economics.”

The Wing, a women-only coworking space and social club, is currently facing an investigation from the New York Human Rights Commission over its gender-exclusive business practices.

A professor at the University of San Francisco argues that female professor should receive additional compensation for their “emotional labor.”

TEL AVIV – A group of Israeli women were barred from participating in a femininity and gender identity festival in Norway over what the organizers described as Israel’s “propaganda” using culture to “whitewash or justify its occupation of the Palestinian people.”