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The Taliban has a brutal reputation when it comes to women’s rights: The group made its name in part by banning Afghan women from going to school or work, or even leaving the house without a male chaperone. But a new faction of Taliban militants claimed on Sunday it would permit women to work and get an…
Hundreds of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints mailed or handed in letters quitting the Mormon church on Saturday to protest against a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults. Leaders of the church approved the policy last week. It added same-sex marriage to acts…
Nordstrom’s pulls Hanukkah sweater seen as insulting to Jewish women | Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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The so-called “Safe Campus Act,” a nonsense bill that would keep colleges from punishing rapists unless victims agree to go to the police, had seemingly unanimous support from national fraternity and sorority organizations—until today. Alpha Phi has become the first sorority to come out against the bill in a statement made “at the request of…
By Melissa Fares and Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) – Students will hold events to highlight racial issues at a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri that culminated in the resignation of the school’s president and chancellor. Peaceful marches or walkouts have…
As the recent uproar over Starbucks’ apparently not-festive-enough holiday cups has demonstrated, a contingent of right-leaning Americans has taken to bemoaning what they perceive as the country’s downward death spiral at the hands of political correctness. Their latest target? Wednesday’s Google Doodle, which celebrates Veterans Day. Visible on the search engine’s homepage, the Doodle depicts a…
Bloomingdale’s has been criticised for a Christmas advert which implicitly encourages men to spike women’s drinks when they aren’t looking. The ad, which appeared in the store’s Christmas catalogue, shows a man staring at a woman with a sapcation reading: “Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking.” It has been criticised on Twitter…
Photo Angus Deaton and Anne Case, husband and wife and prominent economists. Credit Ben Solomon for The New York Times Men’s voices tend to dominate economic debate, although perhaps this is shaped by how we talk about the contributions of female economists. This is easiest to see in how we discuss the work of economist power…
Protesters, students, and media fill Traditions Plaza at the University of Missouri. Credit Photograph by Michael Cali / San Diego Union-Tribune / TNS via Landov Barrier Status: ‘none’ Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash…