Category: #MediaMatriarchy
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GM Reveals CEO’s Pay Details to Counter Gender-Bias Criticism
from nytimes.com: Mary T. Barra, chief executive of General Motors, will earn as much as $14.4 million in compensation during her first year on the job, the company said on Monday. The automaker made her compensation package public two months ahead of schedule in response to criticism from politicians and media commentators in recent weeks…
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Study: Hollywood Female Stars Paid Way Less After 34
from usatoday.com: As female movie stars get older, their compensation dips rapidly on average, unlike their male counterparts, a study says. Female movie stars make the most money per film when they are 34 years old, but their earnings quickly decline after that age, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Management…
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US Rejects Japan Broadcaster Claim It Used ‘Comfort Women’ in WWII
from world.time.com: Did the American government employ sex slaves during the Second World War? The newly appointed chairman of Japan’s public broadcasting system apparently thinks so. In the latest in a string of revisionist statements by conservative leaders in Japan, Katsuto Momii said the “comfort women” system, in which women were coerced into serving in…
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Mike Huckabee Vows to Keep Talking About Women’s Libidos
How to Debunk the ‘War on Women’* from huffingtonpost.com: “If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the…
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg One of Youngest Billionaires in World
from forbes.com: In her book Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg detailed her negotiations with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as she was being scouted for the position of chief operating officer. Poised to become the social network’s number two, the Harvard MBA noted that she was “dying” to accept the job but was “afraid of doing anything…
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How Women’s Wisdom Was Lost
from theguardian.com: A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life’s great mysteries. But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus, torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up. Now stored in 100-year-old…
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Woman uses YouTube to snare her onetime school basketball coach for sex abuse
from nydailynews.com: A California woman — who says she was sexually abused for years by her basketball coach — confronts her alleged attacker in a damning YouTube video that quickly led to the educator’s resignation. “Everything was stolen from me,” Jaime Carrillo, now a mother of two, told KTLA5 as she choked back tears. “I…
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Scientists Invent ‘Machine’ That Helps Women Get Promoted?
from healthland.time.com: Women, according to about a million researchers, management experts and self help gurus, have trouble touting their own achievements. But a new study may have revealed a novel way to overcome that deficit by bamboozling women into more effective self-promotion using a mysterious black box. The small study, published in the Psychology of…
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Rose McGowan: Women Don’t Help Each Other In Hollywood
from foxnews.com: While Rose McGowan is known for taking on edgy roles in the films like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse” and the hit TV series “Charmed,” she says she only recently found her true calling, behind the camera… McGowan is slated to start directing her her first feature-length film in a few months.…
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Oscar Documentary Snubs Raise Questions Of Gender Equality, Politics
from ibtimes.com: The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, and to no one’s surprise, “American Hustle” and “Gravity” led the pack with 10 nominations each. “12 Years A Slave” followed closely behind with nine nominations. It was also no surprise that all of the nine feature films nominated for Best Picture were directed by…
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Women-Owned Hedge Funds Outperform the Market
from washingtonpost.com: Take that, Paul Tudor Jones. The billionaire investor controversially said last May that women can have trouble focusing on trading once they become mothers. Yet a new study released Wednesday finds that women hedge fund managers outperformed both the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index as well as a broad index of hedge funds…
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Diane Keaton’s Golden Globes speech spotlights Woody Allen’s complicated history with women
from salon.com: “One hundred seventy-nine of the world’s most captivating actresses have appeared in Woody Allen’s films,” Diane Keaton said last night while accepting the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. But at least one of those actresses wasn’t watching. Mia Farrow, Allen’s longtime partner in life and in love, tweeted last…
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Beyonce Writes Essay on Gender Equality
from usatoday.com: Who runs the world? Beyoncé says women still don’t — yet. The “Run the World (Girls)” singer acknowledges there is work to be done to make things equal for women, and she explains why in a short essay titled Gender Equality Is a Myth! “It (gender equality) isn’t a reality yet,” writes Beyoncé…
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Military Academy Study: Sexual Assault Reports Down, Sexism Issues Linger
from politico.com: Students at the U.S. military academies often believe they have to put up with sexist and offensive behavior, a Pentagon report finds, reflecting a culture of disrespect that permeates the schools and their sports teams and fuels reports of sexual harassment and assaults. The report points to scandals involving sports teams at all…
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Elle Magazine’s Mindy Kaling Cover Slammed As Racist, ‘Fat-ist’
from freep.com: Elle magazine seems to be covered in controversy lately. They wrapped Melissa McCarthy in a capacious coat last year. And now for one of four February fronts, they’ve hacked Mindy Kaling off at the chest and shot her in black and white — while her fellow funny ladies of TV, Allison Williams, Amy…