Sexism

Looking Back At 1919: Immigration, Race, And Women’s Rights, Then And Now

April 17, 2019 By Arnold R. Isaacs, Tomdispatch.com Educate! History, Immigration, Policy, Race, Sexism, Women

The blend isn’t exact. Bigotry was expressed much more explicitly a century ago, not in code as it usually is now. Jim Crow laws in the South and other forms of racial segregation in the rest of the country were seen by most white Americans as the normal state of affairs. In the national debate on immigration, the most inflammatory rhetoric was largely aimed at immigrants from Asia, not Latin America or the Middle East; Slavs, southern Europeans, and Jews from Eastern Europe also faced widespread hostility.

Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women’s Task Force Inches Closer To Reality

March 14, 2019 Lorenzo Serna, UnicornRiot.ninja Create! Indigenous Women, Sexism, Violence against Women

Minneapolis, MN – State legislators continue to push the creation of a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) task force in Minnesota. The House Bill HF 70 was approved by the Committee of Government Operations and is slated to go to the house floor as early as next week. The Minnesota Senate has yet to see the bill.

‘If We Stop, The World Stops!’: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Spanish Women Take To Streets For Feminist Strike

March 9, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! International Working Womens Day, Sexism, Women

Hundreds of thousands of people across Spain marked International Women's Day on Friday with a "feminist strike." The strike, in its second consecutive year, demanded stronger efforts to combat gender-based discrimination, pay gaps, and violence. Last year's strike drew global attention as more than 5 million women took to Spain's streets to shine a light on such issues. On Friday, unions, feminist groups, and left-wing political parties planned 1,400marches and rallies in Madrid, Barcelona, and cities throughout the country, guided by the slogan, "If we stop, the world stops."

Black Women’s Labor Market History Reveals Deep-Seated Race And Gender Discrimination

February 26, 2019 By Nina Banks, Epi.org Educate! Black Women, History, Labor, Racism, Sexism

The black woman’s experience in America provides arguably the most overwhelming evidence of the persistent and ongoing drag from gender and race discrimination on the economic fate of workers and families. Black women’s labor market position is the result of employer practices and government policies that disadvantaged black women relative to white women and men. Negative representations of black womanhood have reinforced these discriminatory practices and policies. Since the era of slavery, the dominant view of black women has been that they should be workers, a view that contributed to their devaluation as mothers with caregiving needs at home.

“Women On Death Row: Invisible Subjects Of Gender Discrimination”

November 8, 2018 Death Penalty Focus, Portside.org Educate! discrimination, Sexism, Women

California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893. California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893, with the last, Elizabeth Duncan, killed in 1962.* Texas is second with six women on its death row. There are 54 condemned women in the U.S. as of October 2017, about two percent of the total death row population. Since 1973, 181 women have been sentenced to death in the United States.

How Capitalism Has Screwed Women Over

November 3, 2018 Richard D. Wolff, Huffingtonpost.com Educate! Capitalism, New Economy, Sexism, Women

It’s been one year since the explosion of the Me Too movement that followed allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Since then, the #metoo hashtag has been used around 19 million times to expose and discuss workplace sexual harassment. Women are raising their voices. The struggle is multifaceted, but at its heart, women want economic and political equality with men. They also are increasingly questioning capitalism, the system that has allowed and maintained their subordination. To understand how women have been systematically denied so much of what capitalism has provided to their male peers, we need to go back to a pre-capitalist age.

Cops Sexually Assault At Least 100 Women Every Year And No One Talks About It

November 1, 2018 Michael Harriot, Theroot.com Educate! Police, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Women

When discussing America’s police state, we often talk about “black bodies.” The conversation is peppered with words like “brutality” and “police violence.” But no one talks about another brutal act of violence committed by law enforcement figures. We have known about it for years but have mostly overlooked it. Everyone—including this writer—has the information but rarely report it. According to CNN and one of the most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy. That’s only what we know of. While this sounds detestable, these are just the reported cases that resulted in an officer being charged.

Being Trans In America Was Already Scary. Now It’s Terrifying.

October 26, 2018 By Robin Carver, Otherwords.org Educate! Civil Rights, LGBTQ, Sexism, Trans, Trump Administration

A new federal order wouldn't just deny civil rights protections to trans people. It would deny we exist altogether. I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified. Already, on any given afternoon, I’m regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust. Trans women are one of the most assaulted and murdered demographics in the United States, especially when they’re non-white. We’re the frequent and favorite target of even liberal-leaning culture outlets like Saturday Night Live. Even Democratic darling Kamala Harris repeatedly fought to deny life-saving medical treatment to incarcerated trans women when she served as California’s attorney general.

Trump’s Reported Proposal To Redefine Gender, Eliminate Trans Rights Prompts Mass Protests

October 23, 2018 Ryan Grenoble, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! Gender, Protests, Repression, Sexism, Transgender, Trump Administration

“We will be here long after this administration is in the trash heap,” the NCTE’s Mara Keisling pledged Monday. Hundreds of protesters gathered in New York City’s Washington Square Park on Sunday night, angrily reacting to reports that the Trump administration is considering a narrower legal definition of gender. The move would be tantamount to the government’s declaring there’s no such thing as “transgender” and would effectively exclude transgender and nonbinary people from basic civil rights protections currently guaranteed by federal law. Understandably, LGBTQ advocacy groups like the National Center for Transgender Equality, Lambda Legal and GLAAD responded with force.

‘Insulting, Inhumane, And Unacceptable’: LGBTQ Rights Advocates Blast Trump’s Latest ‘Reckless Attack’ On Trans Americans

October 22, 2018 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! LGBTQ, Repression, Sexism, Trump Administration

In a move that "would essentially eradicate federal recognition of the estimated 1.4 million Americans who have opted to recognize themselves—surgically or otherwise—as a gender other than the one they were born into," the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is currently considering a legal definition that "would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with," according to the Times. The memo, which was drafted and has been circulating since the spring, claims that "sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth," and notes that under the proposed definition...

The New Women’s Health: Shut Up & Breed + A Rally To Jump Start Anti-War Work

October 18, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Anti-War, Health Care, Sexism, Women

The purge is here. Facebook, Twitter and the silencing of anything that goes against the state. Next up, women's health and rights are under attack. A backwards, theocratic reworking of Title X threatens women's already dwindling rights over our bodies and our life choices. Finally, the Women's March on the Pentagon – challenging militarization at home and abroad.

Glasgow: Thousands Of Women To Strike Over Pay Discrimination

October 17, 2018 LibBrooks, Theguardian.com Resist! Class Struggle, discrimination, Sexism, Strikes, Wages, Women, Workers Rights and Jobs

Thousands of women council workers across Glasgow plan to bring the city to a standstill this week in what is believed to be the biggest equal pay strike seen in the UK. More than 8,000 workers, mostly women who have never been on a picket line, will take part in the two-day action that starts next Tuesday and will affect homecare, schools and nurseries, cleaning and catering services across the city. While Glasgow city council insists there is no justification for the planned disruption, which it says will jeopardise the care of its most vulnerable residents, unions say that a failure of negotiations has left the women with no choice but to strike and make visible the decades-long pay discrimination that has affected this largely unseen workforce.

#MeToo Goes Global

September 29, 2018 By John Feffer, Fpif.org Resist! Class Struggle, Sexism, Women

The famous tenor Enrico Caruso went on trial in 1906 for an incident at the monkey house in Central Park. He was accused of the indecent assault of 30-year-old Hannah Graham. Caruso in turn accused one of the monkeys of pinching the victim’s rear end. Other accusations of sexual harassment emerged at the trial. The newspapers called the singer “an Italian pervert.” He was found guilty and fined $10. There were rumors that the Monkey House incident was a set up, largely because the arresting police officer and Ms. Graham knew each other. But that wasn’t the whole story either. New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling supplies the coda: “Thirty years later I was to learn that it was a press agent’s trick, put up to attract attention to the tenor’s appearance in a new role, Rodolfo in La Boheme.”

You’ve Heard Of The Gender Pay Gap, But There’s More

August 11, 2018 By Jessicah Pierre, Otherwords.org Educate! Inequality, New Economy, Sexism, Wages

The gender wage gap continues to harm women, their families, and the economy, despite women being in the workforce for decades. But not all women are marginalized by this disparity in the same way. In 1996, the National Committee on Pay Equity decided to bring awareness to the wage gap by creating National Equal Pay Day. The day signifies how long it takes for a woman to make the same amount of money a man makes for the year prior. Each year Equal Pay Day for All is held in April — meaning it will take an average woman about 16 months to make what a typical man makes in a year. But when we look at the wage gap for women of color, this day of “catching up” falls way later in the year — all the way into August.

Wave Of Feminist Civil Disobedience Occupies Patriarchy In Chile

July 4, 2018 By Giulia Dessi, Newint.org Resist! Latin America, Protests, Sexism, Women

Female students in Chile have had enough and have occupied their universities. Giulia Dessi reports on the unprecedented wave of feminist civil disobedience sweeping the country. The classroom floor is covered with duvets and mattresses. Ten women students from the Metropolitan University of Technology in Santiago are waking up, and begin to prepare for another day of debates, workshops and meetings. Outside, hanging chairs protrude through the university gates and a banner says toma feminista, feminist occupation.

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