Best In April, 223,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4% in the U.S., easing concerns that March’s poor jobs numbers were signs of deeper trouble. It turns out that a West Coast port strike and severe weather around the country were probably to blame for March’s numbers, and the economy is […]
More than 40 percent of high school-aged girls in England report being coerced into sex. [The Guardian] A memo to Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions: Judges who disagree with you aren’t “activist” judges. [Vox] A new study shows that there are long-term health benefits for LGBT youth who come out during high school. [Medical News Today] […]
Best: Hillary Clinton is pushing for businesses to develop paid apprenticeship rather than unpaid internship programs in order to create skilled jobs for young people who will then be able to move smoothly into the workforce. The internship industry has been widely criticized for exploiting young, unemployed workers for free labor. Unemployment for young adults […]
Amnesty International is saying that an Iranian bill restricting the availability of contraception and abortions in order to boost the country’s population is effectively going to turn Iranian women into “baby-making machines.” [RawStory] Read a new essay from Toni Morrison about how to learn from failure. [National Endowment for the Arts] This tea-related analogy for […]
Best: Reddit now has an anti-harassment policy, under which the platform defines harassment as “systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their […]
A high school in Utah has Photoshopped longer sleeves and higher necklines onto female students in its yearbook. Student Shelby Baum, above, even had a tattoo on her collarbone airbrushed out of her photo. Baum and other female students said that many other students had their pictures Photoshopped without their consent, which they say was […]
A small study of 260 people found that women are deterred by the language in job postings, particularly when “male-sounding” words are used like “aggressive” and “assertive.” Instead, ladies responded to ads using words like “sociable” and “dedicated.” Surprise, surprise, language in job postings didn’t deter dudes at all. [EurekaAlert] Do you work for one […]
A Republican (obviously) politician in Alaska wants the state to pay for pregnancy tests in restaurants and bars so women can find out if they are pregnant before drinking. You will be shocked, shocked to know State Senator Pete Kelly opposes abortion and doesn’t want to increase access to contraception because it’s only for women […]
Granted, the UK’s Daily Mail (aka the Daily Fail) is not the place you go to read nuanced, tasteful analysis, but writing that Rihanna “surely invites rape [and] disrespect” by wearing provocative clothes is a new low. Writer Liz Jones also said it’s “fair” to “berate female stars” more than young male ones because “young women are far more […]
