The Round-Up: Mar. 18, 2014
- Wagatwe Wanjuki at Feministing is concerned about RAINN’s recommendations to the White House, including getting the criminal justice system more involved in dealing with rape on campuses.
- Australian filmmaker Sarah Steel is campaigning to get men in top creative roles in the film industry to commit to making their future feature films pass the Bechdel Test (via Women and Hollywood).
- Women’s health clinics and the BC NDP Official Opposition are speaking out against regulatory changes that are putting B.C.’s non-profit abortion clinics at risk of service cuts or closures.
- The box office results for women-led films in 2013 show that audiences care about good movies, not the protagonists’ gender (via the Mary Sue).
- Charlie Hale at The F Word argues that who our friends are is as much a political statement as a personal one.
- Melissa Geschwind at Yahoo! Sports talks about institutional sexism in the NHL and how it’s reflected in the increasing on-ice presence of “Ice Girls”.
- Did you see the ads from Betabrand, which is using PhD students to model its clothing? Lola Okolosie at The Guardian argues the company is wrong to say this will challenge the way we think.
- Trudy at Gradient Lair deconstructs the concept of the “friend zone” and talks about why we need to rethink our concepts of friendship and relationships.
- A new report has found that over 50% of Sikh children in the U.S. experience bullying in schools (via Angry Asian Man).
- The gender pay gap persists even in jobs that are hugely female-dominated like, apparently, babysitting (via Feministing).
