This holiday season, we’re inviting girls from across the country to experience the beauty of code by lighting up a tree in the nation’s capital.
Sarah Mesle on Texts from Jane Eyre
I’m not interested in teaching books by women. Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman writer, so I do teach one of her short stories. But once again, when I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women. Except for Virginia Woolf.
.. Gilmour frames his pedagogy as both personal preference and objective aesthetic judgment. He teaches what he “loves,” but of course what he loves just “happens” to be only the “serious” work of “heterosexual guys.”
.. Despite what one is occasionally told about the liberal professoriate, smug dudes, with their smug dude assumptions about Genius, “seriousness,” and the “Chinese, or women” remain shockingly in evidence in your average university setting. (These smug dudes are usually also old white dudes — age and race exponentially exacerbate the problem.) On every campus I have visited, smug dudes roam around being casually or aggressively condescending.
Bechdel Test: Reese Witherspoon Goes Against Type in ‘Wild’
Ms. Witherspoon added: “I said to my producing partner, ‘If we can pull this off, this’ll be the first movie, I believe, I can’t recall, but that stars a woman that at the very end has no money, no man, no parents, no job, no opportunities, and it’s a happy ending.’ How important, how needing of that, are we? How late to the party are we?”
Sarah Silverman’s $29 Trillion Campaign for Equal Pay
The act would make it illegal for companies to punish employees for discussing their salaries and would allow the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect salary information from companies, which would help shed light on how and where the pay gap is actually happening. The acthas been blocked several times by a Republican filibuster.