sexism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/29/2020
  

  Congresswomen Of Color Have Always Fought Back Against Sexism

  by Dana Frank

  When he called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “crazy” and “out of her mind” because he didn’t like her politics, Ted Yoho was harking back to Edgar Berman’s narrative that a political woman who dares to speak up is constitutionally insane.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/20/2020
  

  Sexism Pushed Rosalind Franklin Toward The Scientific Sidelines During Her Short Life, But Her Work Still Shines On Her 100th Birthday

  by Richard Gunderman

  Rosalind Franklin overcame skepticism and discouragement from family and peers to make vital contributions to understanding molecular structures (including for DNA) in her short life. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  With Schools and Daycare Closed, the Coronavirus is Worsening Women’s Inequality

  by Lisa Levenstein

  The paucity of policy support for childbirth and care work are the result of a system that still envisions the ideal worker as a man.

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/17/2020
  

  The Classist History Behind Bad Bunny's 'Bichiyal'

  The introduction of the term opened the floodgates for a debate about class, womanhood, and Puerto Rico's long history of reggaeton production.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/12/19
  

  A girl named Greta and the seriously sexist history of Time’s Person of the Year

  At 16, she becomes the youngest Person of the Year ever, and only the fifth woman — er, girl; er, female — in the 90-plus years Time has been naming a Man/Woman/Person of the Year.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/15/19
  

  Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance

  Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/11/19
  

  A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up. It wasn’t for her emails.

  Woodhull sought to unite a coalition of African Americans, abolitionists, laborers, suffragists and 19th-century Spiritualists — groups that found themselves without a voice in government and relegated to the fringes of power.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/14/19
  

  A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.

  They have tenure. She does not.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1//19
  

  The biggest fight facing the U.S. women’s soccer team isn’t on the field

  by Lindsay Parks Pieper and Tate Royer

  The history of women in sports and the discrimination they have long faced. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/22/19
  

  Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

  Why does the exhaustive biographer overlook Lyndon Johnson’s virulent misogyny?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/19/19
  

  A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo

  by Vivien G. Fryd

  The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/6/19
  

  The History of Sexism in the Southern Baptist Church

  by Susan M. Shaw

  Recent media reports have revealed decades of abuse by Southern Baptist pastors. Here is the history behind the reports.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/19
  

  History has a massive gender bias. We’ll settle for fixing Wikipedia.

  Only about 18 percent of Wikipedia’s biographical articles are about women. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/19
  

  Why it’s shocking to look back at med school yearbooks from decades ago

  by Elizabeth Evans

  They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

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• SOURCE: CityLab
  12-3-18
  

  The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge

  It was rooted in the idea of separate spheres: that women’s place was in the home and men’s was outside, in public. 

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  8-10-18
  

  History professor’s constant "dumb blonde" remarks forced me to dye my hair, claims Stony Brook student in lawsuit

  The suit accuses Larry Frohman of sexually discriminating against her.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  10-17-17
  

  Sexism in the history department at West Point alleged

  by Peggy O’Donnell

  Peggy O’Donnell taught history at West Point for a year. She says the sexism was “glaring."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-12-16
  

  ‘Even though I am a girl…’

  by Roshanna Sylvester

  John Glenn’s fan mail and sexism in the early space program

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  10-21-16
  

  When women were admitted to Ivy League schools, the complaints sounded a lot like a Trump tweet

  by Nancy Weiss Malkiel

  A member of the class of 1936 objected to diluting ‘Princeton’s sturdy masculinity with disconcerting, mini-skirted young things...’

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• SOURCE: Democracy Journal
  9-20-16 (accessed)
  

  How Much Latent Sexism Is Out There?

  by Ellen Fitzpatrick

  For much of the twentieth century, that opposition remained robust, with some 40 percent of Americans polled affirming as late as 1969 that they would not vote for a woman President.