Tag: Sexism

Still living in the Mad Men age! From ignoring women’s safety to obsessing over leading male stars, advertising campaigners reveal the modern-day commercials guilty of ‘sneaky sexism’

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Women’s empowerment and representation have been buzzwords of late for brand campaigns – and yet one advertising organisation has claimed that ‘sneaky sexism’ is heavily on display in modern-day commercials.

We’ve all seen the vintage adverts from the ‘Mad Men’ days and laughed in disbelief at how sexist they were.

Inspired by 100 years of Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership (WACL), Channel 4’s recent Mad Women documentary contained such gems as breakfast cereals urging men to ‘train your wife’

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How Rumble Is Planning to Be the Premier MAGA Platform

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Gender Inequality Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis in Japan

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The Crisis Killing Black Women

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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Deal With the Devil

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In June, at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the denomination’s flagship seminary and one of its leading theologians, was asked whether he believed that women who have abortions should be prosecuted for murder. Mohler acknowledged that there could be gray areas, such as miscarriages, but came down on the side of criminalizing women. “There are many cases in which, demonstrably, there is not just an abortionist

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“The Worst Abuser You Could Ever Have”

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Why the Internet Sided With Johnny Depp

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The Fight for Abortion After “Roe” Falls

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Illustration by Hanna Barczyk.

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Sex, Death, and Empire: The Roots of Violence Against Asian Women

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Illustration by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya.

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What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?

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Working women are at a crossroads. While they earned 82 percent of what men did in 2018, at the end of that year they made up half the paid workforce. “Women are not just working,” Claudia Goldin states in her new book, Career and Family. “They have meaningful careers that many manage, or intend, to combine with a family in an equitable marriage…. In all of world history, this has never happened before.”

Yet despite

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