A Breakdown of Your Mansplaining on Social Media about Gender Pay Equity
In 2015 the World Economic Forum estimated that it would take 118 years for the world’s women to finally gain equal pay. This year... Read More
What About The Women? An Interview with Soraya Chemaly
As noted in my article “Women in Secularism 4: Complex Issues, Respectful Discourse,” I attended the Women in Secularism 4 conference weekend before last.... Read More
Women in Secularism 4: Complex Issues, Respectful Discourse
This past weekend, my colleague Jessica Xiao and I had the honor of attending the Center For Inquiry’s Women In Secularism 4 (WIS). This... Read More
Thus Wrote the White Patriarchy, “Hey, Lighten Up”
This past week brought another incidence of the media disappointingly disregarding women’s bodies. Model Gigi Hadid was forcibly picked up off the ground by... Read More
I Want to Sit Next to a Woman
At humanist conferences, gatherings, and events, I look around and often find myself wondering, “Where are all the women?” At the American Humanist Association... Read More
Why Aren’t There More Women in the Secular Community? An Interview with Kristen Kennedy
Last week, I discovered a story about Denver University’s Kristen Kennedy, a senior undergraduate double-majoring in International Studies and Sociology who has received grant... Read More
What Do Humanists Make of the Burkini Ban?
Last week French police cited a Muslim woman for wearing a hijab on a beach in Nice, France, and ordered her to remove her... Read More
Women’s Rights and Religious Liberty: What California and Illinois’s Laws against Crisis Pregnancy Centers Can Teach Humanists
Last week, two crisis pregnancy centers and a pro-life physician, represented by the conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), sued the state... Read More
Where “First, Do No Harm” Is Secondary: The Threat of Catholic Hospitals to Women’s Health
Many Americans, at least those fortunate enough to have access to insurance, tend to view healthcare as a private matter between themselves and their... Read More
Act for Women: Eliminating the “Undue Burden” Once and For All
“I’m just trying to protect you.” These paternalistic words are repeatedly spoken to girls and women to engender trust in some vague idea of... Read More