Topic: Sexism

  • How capitalism degrades women

    Under capitalism, a whole host of women’s “problems” have been manufactured in order to sell them the “solutions.”

  • Why is it still 77 cents?

    Equal pay for women should be treated like the urgently felt issue it is, not a talking point raised only during election seasons.

  • Ann Romney works hard! (at being rich)

    Republican posturing over a supposed Democratic slight about stay-at-home mothers highlights how little either party has to say to working women.

  • Rush Limbaugh's sexist rants

    The public outcry against the conservative talk radio host has only grown in the wake of his sickening sexist tirades.

  • Calling out the sexists at UVM

    Some 200 angry people turned out to protest a fraternity that circulated a survey asking members who they'd like to rape.

  • No place for sexism in Occupy

    I hope the sexist "Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street" video sparks a discussion about the links between women's oppression and corporate greed.

  • Many voices against sexual assault

    The 3,000-strong SlutWalk NYC shows the potential for a new fighting women's rights movement that makes the connections between all forms of oppression.

  • Baltimore protests sexism

    Some 250 people marched from Baltimore's Inner Harbor to demand respect for all women, regardless of their job or attire.

  • Greensboro takes on sexism

    Three hundred people marched in Greensboro, N.C., as part of SlutWalk to protest rape culture and victim-blaming.

  • Confronting police rape

    Activists gathered outside a police station in Chicago to protest incidents of cops committing rape and sexual assault.

  • Another law for the rich and powerful

    Rape charges have been dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn--an abject and infuriating example of how the justice system really works.

  • A child blamed for her rape

    A Missouri school is accused of not only ignoring a 7th grader's claim of rape, but making her write an apology to her attacker.

  • A march in D.C. against rape

    More than 1,000 activists gathered outside the White House for SlutWalk D.C. to march for an end to sexual violence and victim-blaming.

  • Philadelphia's SlutWalk draws hundreds

    The chanting echoed through city streets on August 6 at SlutWalk Philadelphia: "Yes means yes, no means no!"

  • Portland takes on sexism

    More than 600 people gathered to walk in Portland's SlutWalk march against rape, sexual assault and victim-blaming.

  • Protesting the NYPD rapists

    Protesters rallied at Foley Square at the sentencing on lesser charges of two NYPD officers who were acquitted of sexual assault.

  • Our walk against sexual assault

    Some concrete demands, offered in solidarity, can help take the SlutWalk movement against rape and sexual assault forward.

  • A different law for IMF presidents

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of rape, but Manhattan's district attorney seems like he wants the case to go away.

  • The roots of sexual assault

    The causes of rape and sexual assault lie in a system that thrives on perpetuating sexist ideas and material inequality between men and women.

  • A new women's rights movement in the streets

    SlutWalk Chicago and Los Angeles were a sign of the potential that exists to build a new, unapologetic women's rights movement

  • When sexism is in the job description

    Being offered a job should be a relief, but instead, it's a painful reminder of what's expected of workers, and especially women.

  • Desafiando el sexismo a la Americana

    Los logros del movimiento por los derechos de la mujer de los años sesenta y setenta han estado bajo ataque--económica, política y ideológicamente--pero una nueva resistencia se levanta.

  • A rally against NYPD rapists

    Hundreds rallied in Manhattan to protest the acquittal of two NYPD police officers accused of raping an intoxicated woman in 2009.

  • Challenging Sexism USA

    The gains of the 1960s and '70s women's movement have been under economic, political and ideological assault--but a new resistance is stirring.

  • The point of the SlutWalk protests

    SlutWalk marches are drawing out a new generation of women unapologetically demanding control over their own bodies.