Thursday, January 28, 2010
Diane Levin on the bigger meaning of Senator Brown’s “available daughters” comments
Diane Levin comments on why Senator Brown's “available daughters” comments are not light and funny.
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Labels:
double standard,
guest post,
media,
politics,
sexism
Friday, January 15, 2010
NY Times: The Triumph of the Size 12s
...as usual: great that we're expanding (no pun intended) our notions of beauty, bizarre that size 12 is considered "large."
Read the NY Times article here.Posted via email from
Labels:
body image,
discrimination,
fashion,
weight bias
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Size Ate: One-woman show about body image and eating disorders
Just heard about this one-woman show on body image that will run Jan 14-16 in NYC...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
The (Female) Cost of Living
via dailyworth.com
It sounds almost silly: A survey of drug store goods, in the January issue of Consumer Reports, found that items aimed at women tend to cost more—sometimes 50% or 60% more.
What's disturbing is how pervasive and financially poisonous the so-called gender price bias is—especially when you consider that, on average, women earn about 23% less than men with comparable credentials...
Read more at http://www.dailyworth.com/blog/312-the-female-cost-of-living#
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