Gender prejudice in insurance outlawed
BBC News – Insurance and pension costs hit by ECJ gender ruling The European Court of Justice today ruled that it was unlawful for insurance companies to charge different premiums for male and female...
Category: Gender
How not to teach kids about the slave trade
Womanist Musings: When Is A Child Too Young to Learn About the Middle Passage? This story is about an incident in which two supply teachers decided to show a film called The Middle Passage,...
Just as long as he’s on our side
A couple of weeks ago I read an article in the Guardian by Hannah Pool about sexual harassment, which according to the author was a common experience for women in public places which she...
Review of “Jeff Brazier: Me and My Brother”
BBC Three – Jeff Brazier: Me and My Brother (available until Saturday, UK only) I just finished watching this programme on iPlayer; it features a BBC presenter named Jeff Brazier trying to bully his...
Rape is not funny. Yes, even when it’s George Michael. (updated)
A couple of hours ago I went downstairs to chat to my sis who is visiting with her little girl, and one of the new generation of comedy shows, Mock the Week, was on....
Sweden: exposing Sharia and rape myths
Swedish elections: The impact of immigration | World news | The Guardian This is an article about the rise of the “Sweden Democrats”, a far-right party which has been increasing its share of the...
British footballers, privacy and gender
Wayne Rooney’s infidelity exposes law’s misogyny | Media | The Guardian This week it was announced that Mr Justice (David) Eady, is being replaced as head of the Queen’s bench jury and non-jury lists,...
How to get women into tech
Why We Don’t Need More Women In Tech… Yet « I just saw an article on why calling for "getting more women into technology" is useless, namely that there just aren't enough female computer...
Bidisha and feminist language policing
Sluts and sweethearts | Life and style | The Guardian Yesterday I saw an article by feminist novelist and arts commentator Bidisha promoting a feminist language-policing site called Name It, Change It which presents...
Why no compromise on rape anonymity?
Last week it was reported that the coalition government is to go ahead with plans to change the law to give men accused of rape the right to anonymity up to the point where...
A new light on the harms of porn
A few months ago I read a book called Living Dolls by Natasha Walter, who argued that the "new feminism" she thought was emerging in the 1990s had given way to a culture in...