GOP’s economic war on women about to explode - Salon.com

GOP’s economic war on women about to explode - Salon.com: I laugh when I hear people warn that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic women are trying to annex economic issues as “women’s issues,” as though they’re being supremely politically crafty, or sneaky, if not downright dishonest. (Even the Huffington Post depicted Pelosi’s recent framing of a “women’s economic agenda” as “rebranding.”)

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review: In my view, the main reason for the uneven management sex ratio is our inability to discern between confidence and competence. That is, because we (people in general) commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence, we are fooled into believing that men are better leaders than women.

Our Entire Belief System Must Change - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Our Entire Belief System Must Change - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com: I was raised to believe I was equal and discovered, working in movies, that this wasn’t true. I’ve spent my life trying to change that. Though female directors are now a small part of the industry, we are an invisible minority. Even in government, we lack representation. It feels like we’ve gone backward. The cultural dismissal of women is so ingrained that the public, including women, doesn’t seem to perceive a problem.

TED Women � Blog Archive � Hanna Rosin – New data on the rise of women

TED Women � Blog Archive � Hanna Rosin – New data on the rise of women: Hanna Rosin shares interesting new data that show women are surpassing men in several important measures, like college graduation rates. Do such trends signal the “end of men”? Probably not — but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion.

Women, War and Peace | PBS

Women, War and Peace | PBS: VIDEOOct. 11: I Came to Testify
In the 1990s war in Bosnia, thousands of Muslim women were systematically raped as a tactic of ethnic cleansing. I Came to Testify is the story of 16 women who took the witness stand in an international court of law and changed the rules of war forever.IntroductionOct. 18: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.IntroductionOct. 25: Peace Unveiled
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women who immediately began to organize to make sure that women’s rights don’t get traded away in the deal.

Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice | Video on TED.com

Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice | Video on TED.com: Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.

Is This the End of Men or The Beginning of Women? : Discovery News

Is This the End of Men or The Beginning of Women? : Discovery News: THE GIST
American women are now dominating careers that once went only to men and more women are graduating from U.S. colleges.
Some experts argue that men are finished and women are taking over.
Others say that male and female roles are simply shifting.

Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? | Video on TED.com

Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? | Video on TED.com: Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth -- leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding India back? Huang's answer may surprise you.

Why Washington Isn't Doing Squat About Jobs And Wages

Why Washington Isn't Doing Squat About Jobs And Wages

Dare To Be Yourself! | Episodes | Giving women and minorities a greater voice around the world.

Dare To Be Yourself! | Episodes | Giving women and minorities a greater voice around the world.: "Marianne Schnall is the Founder and Executive Director of the 15 year old women's web site and non-profit organization Feminist.com. She now has a new book out, Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice, which features reflections from a range of luminary women such as Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Maya Angelou, Jane Goodall and Madeleine Albright amongst others."

The Most Influential Women in Technology 2011 | Fast Company

The Most Influential Women in Technology 2011 | Fast Company: "Fast Company compiled a list of the Most Influential Women In Tech, in part to recognize the challenges that women in technology face--proper recognition being just one of them."

Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace | Video on TED.com

Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace | Video on TED.com

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com

Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women | Video on TED.com

Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women | Video on TED.com

Schneider and Wildman’s “Women and the Law Stories” from Foundation Press | Feminist Law Professors

Schneider and Wildman’s “Women and the Law Stories” from Foundation Press | Feminist Law Professors

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due | The Nation

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due | The Nation: "I had a visceral reaction to the news that Virginia Thomas had called Anita Hill and asked her for an apology. In 1991 I was a college freshman, and the televised Hill-Thomas hearings were my adult initiation into the public vilification of black women. I watched as white male senators and conservative commentators exploited the common myth of black women as promiscuous to cast Hill as oversexed and delusional. I remember when Thomas draped himself in the history of America's racial violence by angrily referring to his confirmation process as a 'high-tech lynching."

Women's choices, not abilities, keep them out of math-intensive fields

Women's choices, not abilities, keep them out of math-intensive fields: "The question of why women are so underrepresented in math-intensive fields is a controversial one. In 2005, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, set off a storm of controversy when he suggested it could be due partly to innate differences in ability; others have suggested discrimination or socialization is more to blame."

Blog U.: An Unspoken Threat - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: An Unspoken Threat - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed: "am not the kind of person who feels uncomfortable about confrontations. I don’t go looking for them, but I don’t shrink from them either. When students inappropriately challenge me in class I usually deal with them without too much of a hassle. Yes, I feel annoyed when it happens. And my first thought usually is, would he (it is most often a male student) be doing this or saying this if I were a white man? But then things settle down and I can almost forget that I am a young female faculty of color. Almost."

Right-wing Women: Abortion

Right-wing Women: Abortion: "Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revolution was that it had gotten into the hands of the wrong people. He was right. It was in the hands of men."

Why must women’s colleges exist? A personal reflection : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Why must women’s colleges exist? A personal reflection : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present: "This could be a very short post, with�my answer being�because they p!$$ off and disturb so many people!� But I’ll take the time to explain, for those of you who are curious.� As some of you recall, I linked to Tenured Radical’s series last week on the role of women’s colleges in women’s education, and jumped into the fray of the comments threads as well."