Stories tagged "sexism"

Meg Whitman, McCain's national campaign co-chair and former CEO of e-Bay, veered off message today in an interview with Fox News, describing the media vetting of Palin as "completely fair" and saying that there hasn't really been any sexism to speak of.

She's hunted moose at midnight without batting an eyelash, but Sarah Palin now finds herself up against the biggest beast of all: cultural expectations for women.

Accolades for Akki - Bollywood star Akshay Kumar slams 'fairness products' and endorsers of such products at a news conference.

For supporters of Hillary Clinton, paying homage to women’s progress at the Democratic National Convention will be akin to slathering sweet icing on a bitter cake.

The members of P.U.M.A., that utterly inane group of outraged Hillary Clinton supporters who insist on "being heard and heeded" in their continued support of Clinton for President, also seek, according to their mission statement , "to critique and oppose

While Jon Justice continues to enjoy full privileges as a radio host after posting mock sexual assault videos in which he made racist comments about Latinas and immigrants while assaulting a piñata with public defender Isabel Garcia’s face pasted to it

guaranteed to offend.

For the first time, the just-released draft platform includes language that addresses gender bias, according to the organization, WomenCount says.

The feminist heroine comforts Chrystia Freeland

There is precious little evidence of uniquely feminine motivations driving women to suicide attacks.Women, we are told, become suicide bombers out of despair, mental illness, religiously mandated subordination to men, frustration with sexual inequality an