Thomas Pogge, Yale’s world-famous ethics professor, has been accused of sexual harassment. BuzzFeed News reports: “… a recent federal civil rights complaint describes a distinction unlikely to appear on any curriculum vitae:…
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“Associating elbowgate with violence against women is an insult to victims,” says Gabrielle Gallant in the Globe and Mail. No charges laid in Thunder Bay case of Aboriginal woman found naked and…
“I felt degraded.” Supervisor at Movati Athletic Club tells Ottawa woman her breasts are too large for her to wear a tank top and that she may come back and finish her…
Sophie Grégoire under fire for admitting she can’t do it all. Labrador woman sexually harassed by her doctor during a Pap test. Arguing about the “best” way women should give birth is…
Male anchor hands sleeveless female meteorologist a cardigan to cover up with, on air; Twitter erupts. “Been getting a lot of emails,” he explains. Because nothing helps a woman’s professional position like…
Executive Director of Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), Taina Bien-Aime, points to all the areas New York Times journalist, Emily Bazelon, could have and should have followed up on, in order…
Ronan Farrow rebukes Hollywood for silence on Woody Allen’s status as a sex predator upon premier of Café Society: “’I believe my sister. This was always true as a brother who trusted her,…
London receptionist sent home without pay for not wearing high heels. She states: “I was expected to do a nine-hour shift on my feet… I said I just won’t be able to…
Jian #Ghomeshi "punched, and choked, and smothered and silenced" other women – Kathryn Borel https://t.co/J8FcpBiruFhttps://t.co/0fZeKPmSdn — TorontoStar (@TorontoStar) May 11, 2016 Kathryn Borel issues statement on Ghomeshi peace bond settlement: “Up until…
Jian Ghomeshi will avoid his second sex assault trial by signing peace bond. The Crown is expected to drop criminal charges if he agrees to conditions. bell hooks offers both criticism and…
Apparently the U.S. has regressed to “ye olden tymes” when only men wore pants and only women wore dresses, as a young woman was thrown out of her high school prom for…
Forget the swimsuit issue… Caitlyn Jenner will be posing in nothing but an American flag and Olympic gold metal for an upcoming Sports Illustrated cover. Danish sex club sued for age discrimination…
Academia is quietly and systematically keeping women from succeeding: “[A]cademia’s gradual transformation into an ‘adjunct nation’ has disproportionately affected women… Historically, female faculty have been pigeonholed into the position of adjunct. ‘Before…
Now you can literally play “The Woman Card” — Kickstarter launches to sell a deck of cards featuring women such as Hillary, RBG, and Beyoncé. The BauHaus Wife on “sex work,” privilege,…
LOL, Matt McGorry. (And lol at all the liberal media swooning over him.) Police arrest “Russian Ripper” — the 51-year-old former police officer who allegedly murdered 17 prostituted women in the city…