The recent death of Gloria Steinem has naturally produced an outpouring of adulation for this feminist “icon” and Steinem actually does deserve much of the praise, for she did “legitimize” feminism in a way that many of her colleagues, like Betty Friedan, could not, “proving” that feminists were not uniformly a collection of bitter, unhappy,…
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Feminist “rage” at Bloomberg.com
The World’s Top Business Cities Are Still Failing Working Women announces/pronounces/bellows “Bloomberg Equality + CityLab”, apparently a “thing”, though I certainly wasn’t aware of it until now. For the millions of working women in the world’s leading cities for doing business, daily life is often shaped by what they cannot do and how they’re excluded….
What kind of woman writes for Playboy?
Over at Jezebel, Susan Braudy takes us waaayyy back to 1969 for a tale of consciousness raising Playboy-style, when Playboy’s editors decided they would take a poke at this feminism thing by hiring a woman (yes, you heard that right) to write about it. As Susan tells it, she was encouraged by her agent to…