Sublime

Does my workplace have a paid family leave policy? What is the ratio of women, and specifically women of color, to men in senior positions? How do we decide who gets promoted? When we are hiring for a new job, are we interviewing a diverse group of candidates? Are women always doing the tasks that make a workplace a little more like a home?

There is hardly a politician who dares not profess eternal devotion to women’s rights, and wisely so, since what they have in mind is our “right to work,” for our cheap labor is a true cornucopia for the system.

But what is their definition of the oppressed? It is not the economically oppressed that they have come to defend but the culturally oppressed.

Nell Scovell. Nell and I have been working together

I’m a criminal-defense lawyer, a law professor, and a mother of two. When my children were young and I was offered professional opportunities that separated me from them—a case hundreds of miles from home, an academic presentation out of state—I took them. The work gave shape and purpose to my life. And yet. Because time is finite, deficits added u

Lori Goler,

Marne Levine

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import. It’s also a personal matter, because when we reclaim the stories that surround female celebrities, stories surrounding ordinary women are reclaimed, too.