Fifty years ago today, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, requiring men and women be paid equally for equal work. Argue the statistics whichever way you want, but the pay gap persists. White women earn, on average, 77 cents to the white male dollar. Black woman earn 69 cents, and Latina women earn 57 cents. (Infographic by the lovely Emily Nemens for LeanIn.Org.)

EPIC. A WaPost restaurant critic responds to a letter from Harvard asking how she'd balance graduate studies with her "responsibilities" to her husband -- 52 years later

(Source: alymeetsturkey)

ifuwerentafraid:

Tiffany: “If I weren’t afraid, I would ask more questions and speak up.”

womenofthe113th:

Modification of the last infographic. Congressladies + men = still a ways to go.

Source: Office of the Clerk

This is the most beautiful infographic I’ve ever seen. Paging I Love Charts!

Obligatory Life Update: RIP Tumblr Storyboard. Hello, Sheryl Sandberg.

Love this Tumblr. Thanks to Rebecca Fernandez for the interview!

thewomentakeover:

JESSICA BENNETT: WRITER, EDITOR, ADVOCATE

Some people are so gifted with words that you want to drop everything and read anything they’ve ever written. For me, no one fits that description more perfectly than Jessica Bennett. Besides being an outspoken advocate for equal rights, she’s been the executive editor at Tumblr, a senior editor at Newsweek, and has had pieces published everywhere from The Atlantic to The New York Times. All her brilliance aside, she also happens to be really nice and incredibly funny.

How do you define “feminism”?
Feminism is the belief in equality for men and women. That’s not just how I define it, that is the definition. I can’t stand when people say they believe in the above (ahem, Marisa Mayer) but that they’re not a feminist. YES YOU ARE. Own it, girl!

Read the entire interview here.

: If Jill Abramson were a man...

She’s a source of widespread frustration and anxiety who is demoralizing, uncaring, morale-draining, and very unpopular. He demands excellence and relevance.

She is difficult to work with, unreasonable, impossible, stubborn. He has a strong vision and insists on seeing it carried out.

She is AWOL and disengaged. He attended Sundance and SXSW.

She is not a naturally charismatic person, not approachable, tough as nails. He is direct.

She is brusque, blunt, and dismissive. He does not like to waste time.

She is uncaring, unable to march forward or provide reassurance, and doesn’t make people feel good. He is not your mommy. 

She is condescending. He is the boss.

Pretty much. Via annfriedman.

‘The Feminine Mystique’ at 50: What’s the State of Feminism Today? 

Part two of a thing I did, with Ms Magazine cofounder Letty Pogrebin and Columbia professor Alisa Soloman. (Part One)

‘The Feminine Mystique’ at 50: Three Feminists on Betty Freidan’s Legacy

A thing I did, with Ms Magazine cofounder Letty Pogrebin and Columbia professor Alisa Soloman. 

The Reconstructionists: A Blog to Celebrate Badass Women

You can have it all on Tumblr.

"These have been the many phases of Kirsten Larson, an American Girl doll who sat on a shelf in [an East Village] branch of the New York Public Library until a resourceful children’s librarian began lending her to girls, many of whose parents, because of financial or feminist reasons, resist buying the dolls."

THE MOST AMAZING STORY about an American Girl doll you can check out from the library in the East Village (NY Times)

Side note: Seriously hope Kirsten doesn’t have bed bugs.

BOOM. Topherchris w the background cameo. (at Tumblr HQ)

"You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don’t make as much money as men do. I don’t understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous."

Beyoncé in GQ.

vintagegal:

Batman #210 (DC, 1969)