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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.

Elliot Schrage, the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, apologized for calling a woman “not nice,” which she claimed was an act of sexism, and announced his departure from the company.

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.

A judge argued that sexism played a role in the expulsion of a male student at Johnson and Wales University who suffered an allegedly botched investigation into a sexual assault allegation against him.

On a crowded San Francisco elevator, someone was pushing floor buttons for everyone else. One man joked that he would like to stop at “ladies lingerie.” And now, after Simona Sharoni, a women’s and gender studies professor at Merrimack College, filed a complaint, he is being forced to apologize.

In a report published on Monday, Human Rights Watch excoriated Chinese companies and government agencies for using sexist job advertising to maintain a dramatic imbalance between men and women in the workforce. The report quotes job listings that explicitly state men are required or preferred, plus ads that lure male applicants by promising “goddesses” or “beautiful girls” as co-workers.

In a tell-all released almost 18 months after the fact, New York Times reporter Amy Chozick has finally decided to inform the public that she and other female journalists dealt with unwanted touching and other forms of sexism at the hands of Hillary Clinton’s male campaign staffers.

The University of Southern California has installed a provocative exhibit titled “Dismantle Whiteness and Misogyny on Campus” in an apparent effort to combat “racism, sexism and xenophobia.”

Tokyo (Japan) (AFP) – Japan’s sumo association came under fire for sexism again on Thursday after requesting girls be prevented from participating in events showcasing the traditional sport.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s argument that unsuccessful male presidential candidates haven’t been told to leave the public eye by stating

A strong majority of both British women and men believe feminism has gone as far as it should go or too far, and fewer than one in three defines themselves as a feminist, a poll has found.

PARIS (AP) — French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb says the government is introducing a 90-euro fine ($110) for street harassment and sexist comments.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg claimed Sunday that “sexism” and a “macho atmosphere” contributed to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election loss.

Kyle Kulinski, the 30-year-old host of Secular Talk, which airs on the far-left Young Turks YouTube network, has a history of racist tweets.

Oxford University extended exam times in math and computer science last year by 15 minutes in a bid to boost grades of female students, it has emerged.

While discussing the president’s attitude towards women during an interview on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” argued that it isn’t a surprise that President Trump

In the continuing crusade to remold the English language in the name of gender-inclusiveness, a high school in Massachusetts has decided to abolish the offensive term “freshmen” in favor of the politically correct “first year students.”

Google Translate has been criticized for “sexist” algorithms, which associated nurses and cooks with women and engineers with men.

Dana Nessel, a Democrat running for Michigan Attorney General, jolted her campaign into the national conversation Tuesday with a sexist ad asking voters if they can afford not to have an all-female ticket for statewide office.

A Labour MP with deep family connections to Bangladesh’s repressive government has angrily threatened a pregnant journalist and implied it is racist to ask if she would help a kidnapped Briton in the country.

School inspectors are so concerned at the level of sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western material in Britain’s Islamic schools, they have compiled a dossier of examples.

Critiques of President Donald Trump’s female nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security are powered by sexism, an op-ed for the Washington Examiner claims, even though nominee Kirstjen Nielsen supports amnesty for illegal aliens and has downplayed a border wall.

Planned Parenthood is coming to the aid of those who may need a “safe space” at the Thanksgiving dinner table surrounded by family members who may not be politically correct enough for them.

In an apparent attempt to inoculate himself from the exploding Harveywood scandal, television actor Alec Baldwin accused himself of being a sexist who bullies women.

An investigation has revealed that the European Parliament is a “hotbed of sexual harassment”, where senior MEPs who “feel they can do whatever they want” prey on young women.

GQ has sacked UK political correspondent Rupert Myers after a woman went public to accuse him of sexually assaulting her in London.

The head of Ofsted has defended single-sex schools after a court ruled that gender segregation at the UK’s first state-funded Muslim school was a form of discrimination.

The British Transport Police are disadvantaging white, male applicants by excluding them from recruitment workshops.

State Street Corp., the bank behind the installation of the “Fearless Girl” statue on Wall Street, has reportedly settled more than 300 gender discrimination allegations within the company.

On Thursday’s “MSNBC Live,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Representative Joe Crowley (D-NY) stated that the critique that House Minority Leader Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a liability for Democrats in 2018 is a reflection of the sexism that still exists

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) challenged President Donald Trump from the pulpit at one of the nation’s oldest African-American churches on Sunday, accusing the commander-in-chief of carrying out “an assault on our deepest values” and “our commitment to equality, to fairness, and to justice.”

During an interview broadcast on Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton argued that younger women who didn’t see having a female president as a priority did so because they “don’t yet understand” all the

A group made up of about 100 women in various media industries has released a “White Paper” calling for a boycott of those films “that score poorly on gender equity.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” former Clinton Campaign Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri criticized the coverage of Clinton’s emails as “irrational” and that there was “something vexing” about Clinton because people don’t have a way to think about

A female burglar who broke into an occupied house was given a suspended sentence and was told by a judge she would be in prison if she “were a man”.

Children across Texas are heading back to school but two boys, in different parts of the state, got sent home because their flowing tresses violated grooming policies for males. Their parents are up in arms, claiming “discrimination” and “sexism.”