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This woman sounds like a parody, but not by much: Smith presidency offers a bully pulpit . Carol Christ, the college’s new president, thinks that “equity and access are some of the key issues facing American higher education.” She’ll therefore be pushing for colleges to bring more gender balance to their faculties, especially in the … More ...
The crypt has opened, and CDAW once more stalks the land! As most VFR readers know, the treaty passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the beginning of the summer and may be voted upon by the full Senate at any time. Since we’ve discussed it before we won’t repeat how bad it … More ...
Did John Knox have a point about the Monstrous Regiment of Women? It seems so, at least when it comes to ladies from small Northern European countries. We’ve spoken about the misdeeds of Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Another enemy of humanity is Gro … More ...
The issue of working mothers provides an example of the mindlessness and inhumanity of “antidiscrimination” as a basis for human relations: Study: Women with children face blatant workplace bias . When and under what circumstances mothers, especially of young children, should work outside the home is an issue that touches all of us. It may … More ...
When is Schadenfreude permissible? Emily’s List, a group in Washington that raises money for pro-abortion female Democratic candidates, is targeting Democratic men like Representatives Dingell and Bonior using negative ads and personal accusations. Left-wing bigots don’t always keep their bigotry properly focused, it seems.
Some antifeminist items have made their way into the mainstream media: Salon says that “False rape accusations are not uncommon”, although they put a feminist spin on it, while Fox News has noticed that Moms Can Be Deadbeats Too. In fact, when they don’t get custody they’re more likely to be deadbeats than … More ...
This is puzzling: Nicholas Kristof has told us that those who question CEDAW must favor abuse of women in Pakistan because “frankly, the treaty has almost nothing to do with American women … it has everything to do with the half of the globe where to be female is to be persecuted until, often, death.” … More ...
Andrea Dworkin helps clarify some issues. The Glasgow council has become the first local authority in the UK to state it would object to all licensing applications for lap-dancing clubs on the grounds that they demean and exploit women. Miss Dworkin responded with an opinion piece, which was published in a Glasgow paper. Since … More ...
Another example of the battle between pro-prostitution and antiprostitution feminists, this one in France. (You can tell it’s French when someone says something like “Prostitution is the paroxysm of a woman’s non-power over herself.”)
It really seems that the anti-prostitution forces need an expanded moral vocabulary, one that goes beyond concepts of power and … More ...
Scandinavian social democracy keeps rolling on: Norway sets 40% female quota for boardrooms. Publicly-owned companies have to comply in one year, privately-owned ones in three. The quotas expand the 40% rule for government posts that has existed since the Norwegians got their first female prime minister in 1981, a lady who has since become … More ...