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gender bias
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Trust Us When We’re Sick: Maya Dusenbery’s Doing Harm
The systems created for men by men are not sufficient in caring for women. Different bodies and chemical makeups, of course, require different treatments.
Music Magazines Are For Men Only?
At the Atlantic, Spencer Kornhaber responds to the recent controversial quote by Condé Nast Chief Digital Editor that acquiring Pitchfork brings “a very passionate audience of Millennial males into our…
Fighting Age and Gender Bias in Screenwriting
Meryl Streep announced that she is funding The Writer’s Lab, a new program dedicated to supporting and mentoring female screenwriters over 40—directly in response to the gender and age bias…
(Not) Seen and Not Heard
According to research by the Global Media Monitoring Project, women comprise 24% of the people read about or heard in print, radio, and television news—a statistic that has changed very…
Literary Cooties
A recent study by author Nicola Griffith reveals that books written about men were more likely to win major literary prizes over the last fifteen years than books written about women. During…
Books for Ladies
When an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having…