Hopefully we can agree that that the true measure of motherhood is somewhere between “toughest job in the world” and “nothing.”
Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
Flattering motherhood, still
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged feminism, gender inequality, media, motherhood, occupations, single mothers on April 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A little geographic and demographic awareness might squelch the 1% meme
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged china, feminism, gender inequality on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
How the 1% meme works, and how it could be stopped. Here is a typical recent application of the 1% meme -the 30-year rumor that women own only 1% of the world’s property. In a blog post on Ms., Jessica Mack describes the problem of women’s landownership in China. Land ownership is a big problem [...]
International Women’s Day breathes new life into the 1% meme
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged feminism, gender inequality, memes on March 8, 2012 | 7 Comments »
What does this meme say about generations of feminists and all they’ve accomplished when it carelessly exaggerates the state of women’s oppression?
How much wealth for women? More than 1%
Posted in Me @ work, tagged feminism, gender inequality, global, wealth on September 26, 2011 | 13 Comments »
OK, here is enough evidence to tie this thing up.
Follow the bouncing 1% meme…
Posted in In the news, tagged feminism, gender, gender inequality, media on September 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Will women always only own “1% of the world’s wealth”?
When there’s housework to do…
Posted in Me @ work, tagged capitalism, feminism, gender, housework, socimages on September 5, 2011 | 11 Comments »
A world without housework?
Global women’s progress report
Posted in In the news, Research reports, tagged feminism, gender inequality, global, socimages on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Graphics and data from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
What is the 1% meme solution?
Posted in Me @ work, tagged feminism, gender inequality, media on April 29, 2011 | 9 Comments »
The 1% meme lives.
Risks women share, more and less
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged feminism, global, health, mortality on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do people need to experience the same hardships in order to unite against them?
Stop that feminist viral statistic meme
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged academia, feminism, gender inequality on March 15, 2011 | 20 Comments »
The burden of proof is not on me to show these facts are wrong, but rather to point out that they were never demonstrably true, so we shouldn’t use them.
Philip N. Cohen
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