by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, News, Women's Rights
Last month, Jessica Samakow shared a photograph of a 1981 Lego ad in an article for The Huffington Post that quickly went viral. The image is unlike mostly everything we see in advertising today, in that it depicts a young girl, dressed in a blue t-shirt, jeans, and...
by admin | Jan 30, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, News, Resources & Info, Women's Rights
“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” –Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space At One Equal World, we often discuss the ways in which some industries tend to marginalize folks based on gender. In the fields of science, technology,...
by admin | Jan 15, 2014 | Articles, Equality, Gender, Women's Rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OYcoBlrMd_U “Stop shoving things up me. Stop shoving and stop cleaning it up. My vagina doesn’t need to be cleaned up. It smells good already. Don’t try to decorate. Don’t believe them when he tells you it...
by admin | Jan 10, 2014 | Articles, News, Women's Rights
There was palpable social and political turmoil regarding reproductive rights, family planning, and women’s bodies in the year 2013. The Affordable Care Act has made it easier than ever for most women to acquire birth control, Planned Parenthood has remained a...
by admin | Jan 1, 2014 | Articles, News, Women's Rights
Everywhere you look today there are ads featuring thinner and thinner models. Many are so thin, it’s amazing they are even alive. Bones protrude from hips and collarbones jut out at abnormally sharp angles. These are not images of healthy individuals, but somehow,...
by admin | Dec 20, 2013 | Articles, Gender, News, Women's Rights
In a recent Huffington Post article titled, “God, Sex and Corporate Personhood,” author Carol Howard Merritt discusses the ways in which religious freedoms and women’s rights so often overlap and contradict one another. Howard Merritt, an author, pastor, and co-host...
