FUN

Why weakness of character makes one better suited for intellectual labor because they are averse to it; or Why Intelligent Women Invariably Have a Narrow Pelvis

Regender - "a different kind of translator". – "Welcome to a little experiment in webpage translation. Have you ever wondered...
What would the world look like if the two sexes switched places?
What would it look like if English had genderless pronouns?
What would it look like if English identified races the way it identifies gender?
Language has power.

Margaret Thatcher: The Musical. "If you can live with the slightly scary image of eight Margaret Thatchers in purple feather boas singing a rousing gospel number about economic policy then this is definitely the show for you."

When mama's not happy, nobody's happy

Pick-up lines for feminists

The Devil Wears Prada

The Odyssey: The original chick lit or why Homer was a woman

LESS FUN

Slaughtering Eve - an Economist article. Check out the links too to the summary of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces report.

Keeping up the Appearances - a female academic's battle with her body

Lads' mags

35 years of page 3 (see also link in the post to Clare Short's Guardian piece)

Who is to blame for rape?

Through a rapist's eye - how to minimise the chances of being identified as a target, based on interviews with convicted rapists

Pay gap: one in five UK firms pay women significantly lower wages.

More readings on the pay gap here, here and here

EU gender gap still wide open

Women in Publishing - some thoughts on why it is especially hard for women to excel in fiction writing

Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year - see here and here

RANDOM / INTERESTING / RANDOM AND INTERESTING

Getting off on feminism - Jason Schultz throws a bachelor party; or thoughts upon the mixing of equality and pleasure. Takes a while to load

The Impostor Syndrome - how high-achieving women often find it hard to internalise their accomplishments

300 women who changed the world - a great Encyclopaedia Britannica compilation

Nussbaum: Objectification in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1995, 24:4, pp. 249-291

A web-essay on beauty and power

The maleness of language

Every woman needs a wife

Steve Rhoads: Taking Sex Differences Seriously versus Sarah Hrdy on the 'biologically hardwired' position

'New Deal' for women on pensions - a step towards recognising the value of domestic labour

If comic book superheroes were drawn as comic book superheroines

Hillary is us - the expectations pinned on the potential presidential candidate