In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up.
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Keeping Score: Pride Month, COVID-19 and Black Women’s Fight for Progress
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up.
New Tool to Measure Gender Bias in Workplace May Help Finally Eliminate It
A new way to measure the causes and magnitude of gender bias against women leaders in the workplace should make it easier to identify the sources of this kind of sexism and even help eliminate it, according to just-published research.
Americans Don’t Want Politicians Using COVID-19 to Attack Abortion
A recent poll makes clear: Americans do not want abortion access restricted during the COVID-19 crisis.
Overall, 65 percent of Americans said politicians should not attack reproductive freedom during the pandemic.
How Salary History Bans Help Close the Gender Wage Gap
Because women often begin their careers earning lower salaries than men, and in light of the pervasive gender wage gap that exists, employers who rely on a candidate’s prior pay to set their new salary allow those existing gender-based pay disparities to continue.
Denominators Matter: Women as a Percentage of Candidates and Nominees
It is important to celebrate the gains in women’s representation in candidate pools and among nominees. But these data reveal that women remain underrepresented at each stage of the electoral process and across parties.
Public Support for Equal Rights Amendment is Sky-High
American women are currently still deprived of Constitutionally protected “equality of rights under the law”—and as recent poll has shown, voters of both genders are taking note of this absence.
Study Shows Women Carry Burden of Education During COVID-19 (Duh.)
Since the onset of COVID-19, both men and women have reported an increase in domestic responsibilities. The thing is: Women disagree.
UN Report Finds 90 Percent of People Have a “Deeply Ingrained Bias” Against Women
Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, almost nine out of 10 men and women around the world hold some sort of bias against women, according to new findings published on Thursday from the UN Development Programmme (UNDP).
DATA: Why Aren’t Broadcast Networks Covering the Climate Crisis? And Where are the Women?
The conversation around climate change was a minuscule part of overall corporate broadcast coverage in a year of extreme weather incidents and heightened activism worldwide.