This article was first published by The Huffington Post Schools in Philadelphia are currently on high alert because of a threat of violence made against “a university near Philadelphia.” The threat […]
Author: Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly writes about the role of gender in culture, politics, religion and media. She has appeared as a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Sirius XM progressive radio, and is a frequent HuffPost Live Panelist.
Why Don’t We Talk About the Gender Safety Gap in the U.S.?
This week, John Krakauer’s book, Missoula, “a depressingly typical” story about college town rapes, was released. In a recent NPR interview, Krakauer describes his dawning realization about how many women in […]
Women Don’t Fear Power. Power Fears Women.
Reading yesterday about the abrupt firing of Jill Abramson, along with the resignation of Le Monde’s Natalie Nougayrède, was like watching a ripple of misogyny move through the air in […]
Why Feminists Need to Take Over School Boards
Actress Shailene Woodley is this week’s “She’s not a feminist!” It Girl. When asked her opinion about feminism, Woodley expressed her belief that it’s a bad thing and requires hating men. There […]
Why Won’t We Talk About Violence and Masculinity in America?
As I listened along with the rest of the world to the unfolding horror of what transpired at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I was struck by the persistent lack of […]
U.S. Now Ranks 79th in the World for Women’s Political Representation
This is The Year of the Woman. Again. As it was in 2011. 2010. 2008. 2003. (Pew officially announced that 2004 just wasn’t one, 2005 got lost in the shuffle, […]
What Does Sex Have to Do with World Peace?
Last year, a quiet but powerful book, Sex and World Peace, was published by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and scholars. The authors, Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli […]