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Despite the increased visibility of gender equality efforts in the ad industry, a brazenly sexist party invitation made the rounds at Cannes on Wednesday. An invitation email for a party thrown by VaynerMedia and Thrillist demanded “attractive females and models only” and directed potential attendees to send “recent untouched photos” or link to social media…
TO MARK the United Nations’ International Women’s Day on March 8th, we present our “glass-ceiling index” which aims to reveal where women have the best chances of equal treatment at work. It combines data on higher education, labour-force participation, pay, child-care costs, maternity rights, business-school applications and representation in senior jobs. We’ve also included paternity rights as an additional…
In case you haven’t heard, Captain America is a Nazi now and fanboys everywhere are losing their shit. Last week, issue 1 of Nick Spencer and Jesus Sais’ new comic series Captain America: Steve Rogers hit the shelves of comic stores everywhere and shocked fans across the nation when, in the final panel, Captain…
What happens when parents leave the workforce because they cannot afford child care? The annual cost of a child care center for a typical American family with an infant and a four-year-old is nearly $18,000. As a result, many parents face the untenable choice between spending an average of nearly 30 percent of their paycheck…
Alas, most millennial men aren’t as woke as Matt McGorry.Photo by VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images If you learned everything you know about millennials from articles about college students protesting sexist and racist curricula and demanding trigger warnings, you might think that we’re a woke bunch. Indeed, some self-proclaimed experts on millennials have declared that “this…
Hello! And welcome to your Monday Morning Cringefest! In this edition, we are again taking a dive into the weird, sad world of MGTOWs — Men Going Their Own Way. For those of you unhip to the manosphere lingo, MGTOWs are repulsive dudes who voluntarily take themselves out of the dating pool and gene pool…
More than 160 professors have signed an open letter to “strongly condemn” the Yale professor and world-renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge following a BuzzFeed News investigation into accusations that he sexually harassed students and misused his academic position. “Pogge has engaged in behavior that violates the norms of appropriate professional conduct,” the letter states. “Nothing is…
On a humid afternoon this past November, I pulled off Interstate 75 into a stretch of Florida pine forest tangled with runaway vines. My GPS was homing in on the house of a man I thought might hold the master key to one of the strangest scholarly mysteries in recent decades: a 1,300-year-old scrap of…
Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Florida Democrat running for Senate in the Sunshine State, is calling out Republican Sen. Marco RubioMarco RubioGrayson not scared of ‘attack puppy’ Rubio Florida Dem: Rubio ‘most homophobic senator’ in country Crist seeks donations after Jolly re-enters House race MORE for using the mass shooting in Orlando to reconsider his political…
This past weekend, I found myself in the British borough of Luton, pondering a British exit from the European Union. “How did you find yourself in Luton?” you will ask, and I will reply, “That is a long story, and alas, a very dull one, so let’s just proceed upon the assumption that I was…