Just when you were hoping for another feminist hero to call your own, Marissa Mayer ruined the party before it began. In an interview with Makers, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stressed that she does not call herself a feminist because it has “become in many ways a more negative word.” She elaborates, “You know, there […]
Happy 40th Anniversary Title IX!
Last Saturday, June 24, women and men across the country celebrated the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. Title IX was a part of the Education Amendments in 1972 that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the classroom. Before Title IX women were excluded from sports and higher education. Now 40 […]
The Relationship Between Unequal Pay and Other Forms of Gender Discrimination
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. United States federal laws exist to protect women in the workplace, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits the distribution of unequal pay between the sexes and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment decisions on the basis of […]