A recent Forge article investigates why the “hot mess express” has become something of a hallmark of upwardly-mobile, creative, accomplished—and often white—women. While author Kelli Marie Korducki does not settle on a single answer, several themes emerge: it’s hard to dislike women who, for all their acumen, just cannot seem to get it together.
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We return this month with our series that recaps our favorite (or least favorite) moments in gender equity from news, media, and long reads all over the internet. You'll see installments for This Month in Gender Equity one week each month. If you have ideas or contributions, leave a comment or tweet at us! This week we discuss women who govern like men, the dearth of female superintendents, how high school boys fit into the #metoo movement, and more—all This Month in Gender Equity.
Read MoreWell, we’ve made it through the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. There are many important issues and conversations yet to have before our respective primaries and the general election, but we do seem to keep circling back to one question: can a woman win a presidential election?
Read MoreI fully planned not to write about the Super Bowl Halftime show. Partly because I didn’t think it was scandalous, and partly because I feel like the criticisms are anti-feminist and not worth the time. But after talking to some of my friends (and maybe spending slightly too much time on the monster that is Twitter), I decided that I had a couple thoughts that I wanted to share.
Read MoreWe return this month with our series that recaps our favorite (or least favorite) moments in gender equity from news, media, and longreads all over the internet. You’ll see installments for This Month in Gender Equity one week each month. If you have ideas or contributions, leave a comment or tweet at us!
Read MoreHappy 2020, readers! I’m so happy you are still with us on this journey and I want you to know that AEC has a bunch of great things in store for 2020! Starting out in 2020, Lauren and I decided to do the 2020 Reading Women Challenge. Lauren is the queen of book challenges and I am continually awed by her reading list. That being said, this is my first book challenge, assuming that we do not count the summer library book challenges in elementary school. We probably shouldn’t count those, so I’m excited to be doing my first book challenge! Here are my starting three books!
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