Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood | Video on TED.com

Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood | Video on TED.com: When Colin Stokes’ 3-year-old son caught a glimpse of Star Wars, he was instantly obsessed. But what messages did he absorb from the sci-fi classic? Stokes asks for more movies that send positive messages to boys: that cooperation is heroic, and respecting women is as manly as defeating the villain. (Filmed at TEDxBeaconStreet.)

▶ The Problem with "Don't Feed the Trolls": Steph Guthrie at TEDxToronto - YouTube

▶ The Problem with "Don't Feed the Trolls": Steph Guthrie at TEDxToronto - YouTube

Australian PM Gillard blasts opposition leader Abbott misogyny and sexism

Australian PM Gillard blasts opposition leader Abbott misogyny and sexism: If you can’t watch the video, Here’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard most salient charge in brief:

“I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man, I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever. The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists are not appropriate for high office. Well, I hope the leader of the opposition has got a piece of paper and he is writing out his resignation. Because if he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia, he doesn’t need a motion in the house of representatives, he needs a mirror.”

Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" | Video on TED.com

Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" | Video on TED.com: "In a courageous, intensely emotional talk at the city council in Fort Worth, Texas, councilman Joel Burns reaches out to the targets of teen bullying -- kids who are gay, perceived as gay, or just different -- with a vital message about their lives, and the harassment they face."

Casualties of the Crisis: Stress, Sexism and Layoffs Thin the Ranks of Women on Wall Street

http://www.fins.com/Finance/Articles/SB128317950058932491/Casualties-of-the-Crisis-Stress-Sexism-and-Layoffs-Thin-the-Ranks-of-Women-on-Wall-Street?Type=0&idx=1

On The Issues Magazine The Progressive Woman's Magazine Summer 2010: "Little Marie": The Daily Toll of Sexist Language by Marie Shear

On The Issues Magazine The Progressive Woman's Magazine Summer 2010: "Little Marie": The Daily Toll of Sexist Language by Marie Shear: "I am lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway, alone, waiting to be rolled into the O.R. for the first of two operations. The surgeon approaches and greets me: “It’s Little Marie!” he exclaims. Although his first name is Richard, he does not have jheri curls, a piano and a falsetto with which to sing “Tutti Frutti”; so I cannot reply, “Hiya, Little Richard!” Fortunately, I don’t realize until later that a man named Richard who calls a woman “little” invites a reply that minimizes his most cherished protuberance: It would have been imprudent to say, “Hello, Little Dick!” moments before he stuck a sharp knife into my carcass."

On The Issues Magazine The Progressive Woman's Magazine Summer 2010: Gender Equality: Devil in the Details by Cindy Cooper

On The Issues Magazine The Progressive Woman's Magazine Summer 2010: Gender Equality: Devil in the Details by Cindy Cooper: "Perhaps one of the biggest impediments to women's equality in the United States is a pervasive, persistent and too-common myth: it's all been done. It's a cruel trick, as if the exhortation to girls that they can do anything is turned on its head into a 'fait accompli' by mere affirmation and repetition. The struggle for women's equality, we are somehow led to believe, is all but pass�, as unnecessary as a typewriter, as 'dead' as feminism, even when evidence to the contrary is right in front of us."

Gender-bias impacts women physicists

http://www.physorg.com/news200071193.html


While some might argue that the lack of women in physics is down to personal choice or perhaps even biological determinism, Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA instead claims it could be due to small, unconscious biases in the evaluation of female physicists that can add up to have a significant impact on their careers.