“As a term and as a means of excluding other women, [socialist feminism] is dead. The ideas that we were trying to put across, however, have become very much a part of every aspect of the women’s movement” (Philipson 1985)… Read More ›
Month: April 2014
Something Doesn’t Add Up
Phyllis Schlafly’s recent article “Fact and Fallacies About Paycheck Fairness” proves at least one point – women can’t do math. In her article, she argues that gender wage inequality is a good thing because it supports the institution of marriage,… Read More ›
Commuting to Flatsville
Think about that train you take every morning to work. It’s a scene right out of Working Girl: at every station it pulls up to, women line up at the platform in blazers, pencil skirts, tights . . . and… Read More ›
Is the ‘Better Off Budget’ an End to Austerity as We Know It?
In the wake of the financial crisis, we have witnessed a number of policy measures that have increased the financial fragility of workers by cutting benefits and social safety net programs. In the United States, there have been repeated calls… Read More ›
Socialist Feminism: The Best of Both Worlds
A couple months ago, I was having a conversation with a LGBTQ Studies professor about the effect economic shifts have on women’s status in society, and she joked, “oh! You’re a socialist feminist!” She’ll swear today that she was just… Read More ›
Public Goods Providing Innovation
Economist Mariana Mazzucato addresses the private sector/public sector dichotomy with incentivizing entrepreneurship and provision of public goods that spur private innovation, and whether the two are that different after all, in this talk on the series Seminars on Long-term Thinking…. Read More ›
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