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Activism
Why Did Almost All Answers on Quora Make My Head Explode? (Part Last)
Welcome to the final installment of “WTF is wrong with you, Slate? Why are you posting this crap?” If you haven’t already, you may want to read parts one and two. Let’s get right into the last three paragraphs of Dan’s answer. We (and I’m a passionate gender egalitarian) may want to say it was because of “those prejudiced men…
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Religion
Breaking News: Saudi Arabia is a Thing
No really. It’s a thing. I had no idea. Never mind that I’ve been to Saudi Arabia. That, even though I should have been way too young to understand, I picked up on the fact that my mother was being treated like a piece of meat by Saudi men for daring to expose her face while accompanied only by my…
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Feminism
PayScale Responds
Last month I wrote a take-down of the PayScale study on the gender wage gap. Today PayScale tweeted to me to let me know they posted a response. I don’t want to spend too much time on this because I don’t really think the response adds much I didn’t already write in my last post, but I’ll address a couple points…
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Anti-Science
For-Profit Wage Comparison Website Overturns Feminist Dogma. Or Not.
This morning, reader “Max” sent us the following note via the Skepchick Contact Form: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/3-myths-working-women-190653888.html Women earn far less than men. On an aggregate basis this is true, but Payscale controlled for a variety of factors and found that the pay gap is far narrower among men and women who have similar levels of experience, work in the same fields…
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Feminism
Women in Secularism Wrap-Up
Two days ago the second Women in Secularism conference ended. This is only the second time I’ve attended a non-religious or non-work related conference, (I’ve attended a lot of very large Christian conferences in the past,) and it was probably the most rewarding weekend I’ve had in many years. Not only because of the great speakers, but also because of all the…
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Feminism
What Feminism Definitely Doesn’t Look Like
I once wrote about what I call fauxminism, poking fun at “empowered” women who do little to nothing for (or even who actually hinder) other women’s choices and freedom. That’s one thing. This is another thing, entirely. Recently, I had the distinct displeasure of overhearing two men laugh it up over domestic abuse. As it really wasn’t my conversation and…
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Feminism
Proving and Quantifying Sexism
In many areas of life, especially in cases where a person must apply to enter an organization, field or job, there are large gender gaps. Whenever feminists call for equal representation by women in a particular endeavor, detractors often claim that adding more women means better-qualified men will get bumped down. They claim that in order to get an equal…
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Skepticism
Breaking News: Organized Secularism Different for Women
Main Image Credit: Classic Blag Hag The American Secular Census is something I had seen but in which I had not participated before today because I am mostly interested in seeing the results without someone as (ahem) loud as I am skewing it in any possible way. Many of us here at Skepchick felt the same and did not join.…
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