PHILADELPHIA — Last night, former New York mayor and billionaire executive Michael Bloomberg addressed the Democratic National Convention, in prime time, in a speech designed to present the political independent’s case for supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
Last night, Roger Ailes officially denied former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson’s claims of “severe and pervasive sexual harassment,” with Ailes calling the suit “offensive” and “wholly without merit.” The content Ailes sees fit to air, however, tells a different story.
New study results “show that women [at law firms] have a much harder time making partner when they work under male bosses who donate to Republicans.” Search for your boss here!
A new study that examines millions of online reviews of college professors finds that either there are fewer brilliant women and black professors, or college kids are dumb. Will we ever know which is the case?
Bill Clinton has decided to start attacking his wife’s opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, since that worked so well eight years ago. At a rally in New Hampshire on Sunday, Bill mocked Bernie Sanders’s desire for “revolution” and accused Sanders supporters of sexism.
Women: a liability to the smooth functioning of the patriarchal labor system? I didn’t say it—science did.
Unfortunately for Léa Seydoux, the French actress who’s starring in the upcoming Bond movie Spectre, Vogue UK hired restaurant critic Giles Coren to interview her for the magazine’s November cover story. The piece itself is as yet unreleased, but Coren gave the world a behind-the-scenes look at his writing process in…
The prestigious magazine Science has deleted an advice column in which CalTech scientist Alice Huang advised a woman whose academic adviser was constantly leering at her breasts to “put up with it” because such behavior is “common in the workplace.”
A major science publisher has apologized to the two authors of a journal submission—both women—who were told by a peer reviewer that their paper would have been better if they’d had some “male biologists” helping them.
After an email containing racist and misogynist language sent to a campus fraternity by one of its members surfaced this week, the University of Maryland announced that it was opening an investigation into the case. The email's author dissuades his fraternity brothers from inviting women of color to a party and not to…
Female celebrities are reportedly growing tired of the shallow inanity and vapid questions that come with walking the red carpet at awards shows. So boycott it, then.
As Deadspin explained earlier this week, dressing up as NFL wife-puncher Ray Rice for Halloween is a bad idea. Worse idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface. Worst idea? Dressing up as Ray Rice in blackface and proudly posting it on the Internet.
Shannon Watts, the head of the pro-gun-regulation group Moms Demand Action, is a mom. The National Rifle Association hates Watts. So it wrote a blistering profile of her. And dressed her up as a cutout mom with kitchen and housekeeping accoutrements, because moms oughta know their place!
Yesterday, when Arthur Sulzberger announced to the Times staff that he'd fired editor-in-chief Jill Abramson, he reportedly told the staff something like, "When women get to top management positions, they are sometimes fired, just as men are." A lot of the women I know who have similar professional ambitions to mine…
Hey there, sweetness. No cavities. You are a great flosser. But why don't you smile more? I bet it's 'cause of this little gap here in your cute little bunny teeth. No, here. Open up, let me show you. I've got just the thing you need. Your boss'll give you a raise! Just lie back and let me take care of it.
A new study of elections over the past 25 years shows that "the South was the least hospitable place for female congressional candidates." And the most hospitable place for calling losing female congressional candidates "ma'am."
As India wends its way from Third World to First World, it is useful to remember that it is an enormously diverse nation that contains not only tech companies celebrated by Tom Friedman, but also swaths of backwards countryside where rape is a common quasi-legal punishment.
James Taranto is what we in the journalism business, ensconced as we are in our industry lingo, call a "fucking moron." Yet, by virtue of his position as a tastemaker on the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages, it's worth asking how he spelunked today into his latest, lowest muddy crevice of misogyny.
University philosophy departments, like the rest of our society, have a reputation for sexism. One university with a bad reputation is turning a harsh eye on itself. The findings are not very encouraging.
A male college student's request not to be forced to work with women is finally bringing the issue of cooties to the forefront of academia.
