"ncaa-gender-initiatives" Articles & Blogs:
NCAA career development program for women
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University of Minnesota women's softball coach Julie Standering / Photo credit: Gophersports.com
The NCAA is holding a career development program that’s targeting women, announced today. It’s going to be held on December 17 in conjunction with the ...[Read on] |
SI for Kids: Basic lessons in gender, sport
| At the UM Tucker Center lecture Monday night on women's sports and social media, I suggested that the primary function of mediated/spectator sports in U.S. culture is to reinforce gender norms (apologies to Noam Chomsky). It starts early. Just loo...[Read on] |
WAM 2009: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media.
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Sitting in an all-star panel at WAM 09 called In/Out of Focus, Broadening a Feminist Lens: Gender, Non-Conformity and the Media including our very own Miriam, Julia Serano, Jack Aponte and Kate Bovitch. It is excellent. They are discussing the different w...[Read on] |
Princeton to add gender neutral campus housing option next year
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Via Emily Rutherford at Campus Progress:
It's a pilot program which designates Spelman Hall, an apartment-style housing option for upperclass students (in which, significantly, every student gets their own bedroom), as gender-neutral. Instead of having t...[Read on] |
The Death Penalty Gender Gap
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NYC Kids Make Gender Documentary
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Thanks go to Feministing for bringing this awesome little documentary that a bunch of school-age kids did on gender stereotyping! Way to go mini Judith Butlers— you've restored our faith in future generations. Also, a special thanks to brillia...[Read on] |
Paramount Pictures has a gender (and race) problem
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The folks at Racebending who advocate for just and equal opportunities in film and TV, have been tracking race issues related to the recently released film The Last Airbender. While doing their research they have revealed some disturbing trends at Pa...[Read on] |
Catholics Await Gender-Neutral Liturgy
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BRONX, N.Y. (WOMENSENEWS)--Father George Hill, a Catholic priest, says that when he looks out on women in his congregation, he finds it insulting to tell them to pray for the "peace and unity of mankind."
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Zero Progress Made on Gender Disparity in Films Targeted at Kids
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Some bad news from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
They released a new study: Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films, done by Stacy L. Smith, PhD and Marc Choueiti, at the USC Annenberg School for Communication...[Read on] |
Too good to be a girl
| So if a young athlete pops onto the track and field scene with personal best times that are considerably better than her previous times you should test her to make sure that:A) she is not taking performance-enhancing drugs.B) she is not a cyborg.C...[Read on] |
New report on gender in televised sports
| Two colleagues, Mike Messner (USC) and Cheryl Cooky (Purdue), just finished the latest installment of a longitudinal study GENDER IN TELEVISED SPORTS: NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS SHOWS, 1989-2009. The report can downloaded for free here.
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David vs. Goliath: NCAA one step closer to its champion
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As of last night, there are now two teams left in the greatest basketball tournament of the year: University of Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals.
Yesterday, UConn seemed to easily handle Stanford, winning 83-64, and Louisville squeaked by...[Read on] |
Derrek Lutz wears dress to prom, wins prom king
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This story is a bit old, but too good not to share. Amidst all of the queer and gender non-conforming panic around prom season (remember Constance McMillen?), Derrek Lutz's story was buried.
Derrek is a high school student in New Jersey who self-ident...[Read on] |
Champion of diversity and academic reform: NCAA President Myles Brand dies at 67
| Myles Brand, the first university president to head the NCAA and a champion of academic reform died Wednesday after battling pancreatic cancer this past year. Brand, a former Indiana University President, championed academic reform, fiscal responsibility ...[Read on] |
Health Reform Will End Gender Rating, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe…
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by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
As we’ve discussed here many times before, gender rating is the harmful and discriminatory insurance practice of charging individuals and employers different premiums based on gender. ...[Read on] |
Reebok wants you!
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Reebok, once a broad force in the U.S. footwear market, is trying to start over by returning to its niche roots.
The brand, which has seen its sales and profile evaporate since being sold to Adidas for $3.8 billion in 2005, is hoping a series of major in...[Read on] |
Gender 'Balance' on the Horizon?
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New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly has feminism and the GOP on her mindLiza Donnelly | Today 12:00 am
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Editor’s Note: Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is
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More Cannes Lineup - Women Directors
| It’s getting a bit more difficult to determine the exact gender of the lineups coming through from Cannes because the filmmakers are not as experienced and I can’t tell the gender from google searches.
So here is my best guess for the lineup just ann...[Read on] |
Stereotypical media representations of female athletes starts early
| Today I was preparing for a WeCoach workshop and was looking for some images on IStock.com. Pictured here is a classic example of how the (re)production of gender stereotypes starts early and in ways we might not even notice because they seem so i...[Read on] |
Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college
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College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom.
The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes...[Read on] |
Helen Mirren does Prospera for Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor has taken Shakespeare’s The Tempest and given it a gender redo. USA Today has the first picture of Mirren and she looks great. The film was shot around Hawaii, and Mirren plays a woman who has “her whole life taken away from her because...[Read on] |
Killing Me Softly: Images of Women in Advertising
| In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range ...[Read on] |
United Nations creates new body on women and gender equality
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Ann mentioned this in our Weekly Feminist Reader, but I thought it deserved a bit more attention.
The New York Times announced the launch of a new agency developed out of the United Nations dedicated to promoting women's rights and gender equality, al...[Read on] |
Gender: Your chance to learn more
| Since the issue of intersexed individuals has arisen lately, I thought I would share these two opportunities to learn more. Especially because the Caster Semenya situation revealed just how little people seem to know. Granted, because intersex is an umbre...[Read on] |
Thinking Beyond Gender: Angelina Jolie in Salt
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Angelina Jolie’s Salt is about to open and I think its going to be a massive hit. One big reason is that she appeals to both men and women for different reasons. Guys like her because she is hot and kicks ass. Women like her because she lives wi...[Read on] |
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