I might be off on this, as it’s limited by my experience.

Counterpoint for this person:

Thank you. While I do think it’s important to discuss misogyny and inequality in the entertainment industry, Jennifer Lawrence and her experience is absolutely no comparison to every female in my actual life. I’m so glad this is being discussed. I have worked in recruiting and HR in the past. Women fighting for extra…

As much shit as Patricia Arquette received for her speech, the message that men need to stand up for women’s issues isn’t incorrect. Why aren’t any male actors speaking out about wage equality among their own peers? This applies to men throughout the economic scale: men at each level must be speaking up on behalf of…

Maybe, if we’re really lucky, it might inspire men (and women, because women internalize this and do it, too) to start offering women the same pay as men to begin with?

(And also maybe I will win the lottery without even having to buy a ticket.)

THIS. Men are offered a higher salary than women to start with, before any negotiating happens at all. Women who do negotiate tend to be penalized for being “pushy” or “bossy” and so on.

“The solution is that women need to negotiate better” is the troublesome part of this narrative. I don’t blame these actresses for…

The whole “fight harder” thing is really inappropriate. They have people to do it for them. And when I am fighting, face-to-face with an employer, to be the person they pick for an office job it certainly does not benefit me to “fight harder.” Be it for an extra dollar an hour or healthcare (non-existent from my very…

It strikes me as basically the conservative “boot straps!” mentality but applied to oneself. America just can't stop with the meritocracy ideals.

Take the recent news that Robin Wright demanded equal pay toHouse of Cards co-star Kevin Spacey: “It was the perfect paradigm. There are very few films or TV shows where the male, the patriarch, and the matriarch are equal. And they are in House of Cards,” Wright said. She acknowledges, too, that producers on the…

I’ve never been comfortable with the fiction that the reason women don’t make enough is that they don’t negotiate well. There is a god awful deoderant commercial that seems to reinforce this belief as well.

Say! I wonder if big time college football (and the NFL, for that matter)is a full blown corruption machine that infects everything it comes into contact with?

As a matter of fact, they DO have a daily bible study. The public stoning of women though, only on the weekends.

The answer to your question is Title IX. The school had a duty to provide her assistance and investigate her claims. It failed.

If I’m reading this correctly, the victim did go to the police. The rapist is serving 20 years for the conviction. Their completely valid suit against the university is that they refused counseling services to the victim (likely in hopes of shutting her up so their athletic program wouldn't get more bad press).…

university police have always occupied a kind of interesting place in this regard.

“And after supper He took the cup of wine and having blessed it said ‘Drink this all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, and it is shed for you and for many, excepting the young women, who are clearly slatterns and sluts’”

Funny you should ask...

Even if a survivor chooses to speak or take other actions to support their healing, we must not publicly comment in a way that could compromise student confidentiality or inadvertently discourage future students from coming forward.

Burn it to the ground. It’s surprising enough she got a conviction out of a football player in Texas. Hopefully she gets fuck-you rich off of this and these football factories masquerading as places of learning might think twice before minimizing a victim of the environment they created.

Otherwise, McCraw said, it would come down to a “he said-she said” situation, and the school could not act on it.