Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics

Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

Find over 20 short videos on important women’s issues: reproductive rights, sex education, clinics, religion and abortion. Be sure you check the menu of Stuart Productions. Here are a few available:

SIECUS State by State : Abstinence only until marriage programs report
Lessons of Hate in [...]

More on baby gender selection and discounts

Sometimes people may wonder how librarians find the information they do.  It’s genetic. My profs in Library school called it having an I-gene. But that I-gene can really lead to some strange travels, one of which I had today.
June 22, 2009 Web excursion:
Went back to Contexts.org/ (sociology site of great interest), went to their blogs [...]

Contexts Crawler » the motherhood penalty

Yesterday The Examiner ran a story on an article published in the  American Journal of Sociology – and winner of the 2008 Kanter Award Winner for Excellence in Work-Family Research - about the ‘motherhood penalty’:  the pattern demonstrating that working mothers make less than women without children. The study, authored by Shelley J. Correll of Stanford University, Stephen J. Benard, [...]

Sociological Images » Abortion Politics And The Erasure Of The Pregnant Woman

Sociological Images » Abortion Politics And The Erasure Of The Pregnant Woman.
Be sure to read the comments at the bottom. Interesting how the voice belongs to the fetus in most, ignoring the woman.

Explaining India’s Deficit of Girls : online discussion at PRB Thursday 6/11 at 1 pm

Population Reference Bureau PRB Discuss.
Chat online with Leela Visaria, researcher and president of the Asian Population Association, on the Asian countries imbalance of genders and the implications for the future.  June 11, 2009, 1 pm EDT.
India, along with China and several other countries, has a history of neglect for girls and women that produced lower [...]

Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty

June 8, 2009 from Vital Voices:
Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty
Think of all the cities in the world where the “green” movement is taking hold. Cairo, Egypt, a desert megalopolis of 17 million people, probably isn’t at the top of your list. But [...]

American Indian Charter Schools in California: Spitting in the eye of mainstream education – Los Angeles Times

May 31, 2009
Dave Getzschman / For the Times

Students sit in detention at American Indian Public Charter school in Oakland for offenses ranging from getting up during class or skipping a problem on a homework assignment. Students who misbehave in the slightest must stay an hour after school; if they misbehave again in the same week, [...]

New NBER Research study: What is needed to increase the number of female students in fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)? Hire more Women Profs.

Thanks to Carol, a friend who is both a feminist and a physicist, for alerting me to these related articles on the needs and issues faced by female students entering STEM fields.
The first artcle is from the daily Web publication Slate which is owned by The Washington Post Company.
A Formula for Success : Want more [...]

Rosalind Gill, “From Sexual Objectification to Sexual Subjectification: The Resexualisation of Women’s Bodies in the Media”

Ever wonder if “Girl Power” and the “new” open sexuality popularized in clothing and other outwardly visible paraphernalia is a result of the feminist movement or an insidious manipulation by media (not to mention the “p” word)? Read this illuminating article.
Rosalind Gill, “From Sexual Objectification to Sexual Subjectification: The Resexualisation of Women’s Bodies in [...]