Geek Feminism Blog | Women, feminism, and geek culture Links - Feminist Webs Want ACCESS to more and the best links available online? Suffrage Movement The BBC have put a fantastic new archive of materials on the British suffrage movement online: Then and Now Bolton Women’s Liberation Group existed from 1971 until 1986. In the twenty first century we are developing a project to make our archives accessible. Violence and Safety Chris Green, the UK Director for the White Ribbon Campaign. Also a short video trailer to help explain what the campaign is about, available on You Tube: Interestingly and perhaps logically, on a dating website, there is a good guide to personal safety that can be adapted to use with young people. Work and leisure Here is a link to the women and employment section on the new Equalities and Human Rights commission website. www.equalityhumanrights.com
Hollaback! Brussels feminism "Es un centro que desde hace nueve años, promueve el uso del video como una herramienta de educación, organización, capacitación y expresión. Nuestro trabajo está encaminado a que las mujeres se apropien de dicha herramienta y la apliquen en su labor en defensa de: Los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres, La educación popular, La salud reproductiva La libre opción sexual. La creación de Políticas Públicas que nos beneficien. Alternativas Ecológicas y de Desarrollo Sustentable La creatividad y la complicidad." "Since 9 years ago, this center promotes the use of video as a tool of education, organization, capacitation and expression.
feministnetworkproject | Thinking about a way to better connect feminist activists worldwide International Women's Day Facts | Mental Floss Every year on April 1, when jokesters pull out their best pranks and hoaxes, you may have asked yourself: How did this weird tradition start, anyway? The answer is ... no one really knows. In fact, the origins of April Fools’ Day have long been caught up in myth and legend. The Many Origins of April Fools' Day Some have taken the origin back to Noah sending out the dove before the flood was over, or the Roman festival Saturnalia. Then, in 1983, an intrepid AP reporter interviewed a professor at Boston University about the history of the day. According to the professor, Constantine was told by his court jesters that they would make better rulers than him, and rather than immediately feeding everyone to the lions, Constantine allowed his jesters to rule for a day. Mystery solved, right? That was the end of the road for Kugel, and there's little to no evidence for any of the other theories, either. A Calendar of Fools There are a few problems with this hypothesis, though.
Vie Féminine - L’égalité pour changer From peer to maternity - Why the pay gap in Germany is so large | Europe | The Economist “REVOLUTIONARY” IS not a word that often escapes Angela Merkel’s lips. Yet on March 8th, international women’s day, that was how Germany’s chancellor described the change she had observed in men’s attitudes to balancing work and family. This matters in a country that can still deride Rabenmütter (“Raven mothers”), women who supposedly neglect children for career. But on another measure of equality—pay—Germany is lagging. The median hourly wage for German women is €17.09 ($19.31), 21% less than men’s €21.60. In the European Union, only Estonia has a wider gap. Yet the adjusted figures leave something out, too. In the former East Germany, the unadjusted pay gap between men and women is minuscule. The pay gap has almost vanished for full-time workers under 30, the average age for new mothers, but for those over 40 it has barely budged for three decades. Germany is changing.