No ‘boys’ or ‘girls’: pre-school abandons gender normsA pre-school in Sweden abandoned the use of male and female pronouns and doesn’t read traditional fairytales with strict gender stereotypes, in a bid to be completely gender-neutral.
Sex discrimination
A million Walmart employees can’t beat their boss
Betty Dukes vs Walmart: the case of a 50 something woman overlooked for promotion in favour of her male colleagues, who had a million plaintiffs join her case against the company. But after 11 years of fighting, Dukes’ case was thrown out.
Taking care of business and strippers
It’s relatively common in old boy style businesses — ie. at Goldman Sachs in the US — for events to be held at upscale strip clubs or for sexy dancers to appear. But why do we tolerate this sexism in the office? asks Tracy Clark-Flory.
A million reasons why women shouldn’t work at Wal-mart
Dee Gunter started working at Wal-mart at 46, after 20 years of retail experience. So why were teenage boys being promoted ahead of her? Over a million women have now joined a class-action suit for gender discrimination against Wal-mart.
“Writing is what the men do”: sexism in journalism
It’s been forty years since a landmark gender discrimination case against NEWSWEEK magazine by its employees. So, how much has changed for women? asks current NEWSWEEK journos.
Sock it to ‘em: a little respect for political women
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton shouldn’t field questions about her husband’s opinion or her political legitimacy. Unfortunately for women in politics this is “depressingly familiar”.
Gay news anchor: Why I committed career suicide
Until recently, Charles Perez was a TV news anchor for an ABC affiliate station in Miami. A gay TV news anchor. But when public knowledge of his sexuality became widespread, he claims, the network started not-so-subtly nudging him out the door.
The University of Melbourne’s gender blindspot
The University of Melbourne has been denied a place on a Federal Government equal opportunity list designed to promote the advancement of women.
No bound feet for today’s Chinese women
Recent events in China show a drop in the status of women in society — a booming sex trade, discrimination at work, sexist attitudes — and women are turning to the internet in protest.
Same s-x rights hopes dashed
Malcolm Turnbull has started wooing the gay community, pledging to remove discrimination in campaign material distributed in the pink suburbs Darlinghurst, Paddington and Potts Point last weekend, the Sydney Star Observer reports.
