When Karen Cole tweeted a photo of her seven-year-old daughter Maggie holding up a Tesco advertisement, people took notice. The powerful photo shows Maggie at the Tower Park branch of Tesco in Poole, Dorset, angrily holding a superhero alarm clock ad with the caption “Fun gifts for boys.” “My superhero loving 7yo daughter not impressed …
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STOCKHOLM — At an ocher-color preschool along a lane in Stockholm’s Old Town, the teachers avoid the pronouns “him” and “her,” instead calling their 115 toddlers simply “friends.” Masculine and feminine references are taboo, often replaced by the pronoun “hen,” an artificial and genderless word that most Swedes avoid but is popular in some gay …
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This one’s for you, guys. Assuming you don’t believe in the common myths about feminism, you still may think that feminism is all about women’s issues, reproductive rights, celebrating femininity…pregnancy…motherhood…PMS…boobies…vaginas…who knows. You may have thought: “I can’t be a feminist. I’m a dude.” “I support women’s rights, but feminism is not really my thing.” “My …
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Across Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone women continue to be infected and killed by Ebola at devastatingly high rates. The reasons behind this are largely recognised; gender roles, understandings and practices lay at the heart. Surprisingly, these are not so detached from those we face in the ‘West’. Although gender dynamics continue to position women …
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