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How Does Gender Inequality Persist?
Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrial societies, such as the US, despite a plethora of changes that work against gender discrimination. Stanford professor Cecilia Ridgeway takes this conundrum one step further. She not only explains why gender inequality continues in the modern world, she also asks if we can predict which type of Silicon Valley start-up would face the greatest persistence of gender inequality in comparison to traditional, hierarchical firms.
Women, Marriage, and Job Opportunity in the Muslim World
In post-revolution Egypt, western onlookers pose the burning question of what rights the new governments will accord to women. Will women be included in a new democracy, or will there be a revival of strict fundamentalist law? According to Stanford researcher and professor of political science, Lisa Blaydes, the question of women’s rights is not so straight-forward as simply introducing western-style reforms.
“Smashing the Masher:” The early women’s movement against street harassment in America
According to Estelle Freedman, the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University, aggressive male street flirts, or “mashers,” were a widespread and vexatious problem for American urban women in the pre-suffrage era. One of the most interesting things about the masher problem, she said, was the evolving public response to it. At first newspapers urged respectable men to play a stronger role in protecting women from ogling and catcalls. Gradually though, women began taking matters into their own hands.
Full StoryPerception is key to retaining women in academic medicine
A team of Stanford University Medical Center researchers found that while male and female faculty members are leaving Stanford in comparable numbers based on the gender mix of the faculty, women are giving notice sooner than their male peers. But what was surprising was that the majority were moving to comparable institutions—not relocating to community clinics or pure research enterprises.
Walking backwards at the intersection of gender, race and poetry
Shirley Geok-lin Lim identifies primarily as a poet, but has been wildly productive and successful across genres, publishing poetry, short stories, novels, and a memoir, as well as criticism. At her recent on-campus poetry reading Lim noted that the pantoum, with its intricate pattern of repeated lines, strikes her as a highly female poetic form. “It’s a repetitive form, it’s a braiding, and I think that the braiding is very gendered,” she observed, adding that she also appreciates the pantoum because it originated in Southeast Asia before being adopted by the French and English poets, whereas, “Form usually comes from the West to the rest.” This braiding of Asian form with Western language, traditionally male poetic structure with female voice, typifies the intersectionality of Lim’s work.
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