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Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs | Jill Filipovic | C... - 1 views

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    Jill Filipovic: Your name is your identity. The reasons women give for changing their names after marrying don't make much sense (Opinion)
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TrueCar.com Ad Rescues Clueless Women Who Could Never Buy a Car Without a Man Around - 0 views

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    TV commercial offends women
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Axe Shower Gel Ads Tell Men to Appease Women, Get Laid - 0 views

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    Axe shower gel ads play on stereotypes of women
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Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views

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    9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.
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Zeroing In on the Female Traveler - 0 views

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    Article about hotels marketing to female travellers also looks at the language used to define single childless women.
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    Article about hotels marketing to female travellers also looks at the language used to define single childless women.
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Do women really talk more? - 0 views

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    Article from The Guardian. A bestselling book claims that women say an average of 20,000 words a day and men only 7,000. Can it be true? We wired up two writers to find out.
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How will Saudi Arabia's anti-domestic violence campaign work? - 0 views

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    Saudi women can't do anything without a male guardian's permission - including see the advert (Guardian blog)
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Killing Us Softly - 0 views

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    Video documentary about the portrayal of women in advertising. Jean Kilbourne (2010)
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An impassioned call to action - 0 views

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    Novelist Kate Mosse considers Virginia Woolf's speech on Women and Fiction
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Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare's Sister - 0 views

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    Speech on women and fiction delivered at Cambridge University 1928
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Is 'strident' a sexist term? - 1 views

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    'Strident' is more frequently used to describe women than men
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Why We WAM! | Women Action and the Media - 0 views

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    There are over 3.3 billion women living in the world today. Yet if you judge solely by the mainstream media you might conclude those 3.3 billion people are less intelligent, less articulate, less funny, have less to say about issues (even those directly affecting them) or perhaps only make up 5 to 30% of the population.
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Meet the new X-Men: All women - 0 views

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    For the first time in its 50-year history, the X-Men will be made up entirely of women: Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Psylocke make up the mutant team in "X-Men" #1, in stores May 29.
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Dr Pepper Ten 'not for women' - 0 views

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    Dudes don't drink diet. Or at least that's the idea behind Dr Pepper Ten, a 10-calorie soft drink Dr Pepper Snapple Group is rolling out with a macho ad campaign that proclaims "It's not for women."
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Increasing Number Of Men Pressured To Accept Realistic Standards Of Female Beauty | The... - 0 views

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    Confronted on a regular basis with images of women who represent a diverse array of body types, a growing number of American men are reportedly feeling pressured to accept the increasingly realistic standards of female beauty now depicted in the media (The Onion)
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    Confronted on a regular basis with images of women who represent a diverse array of body types, a growing number of American men are reportedly feeling pressured to accept the increasingly realistic standards of female beauty now depicted in the media (The Onion)
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Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating | World news | theguar... - 0 views

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    Movies need to pass test that gauges the active presence of women on screen in bid to promote gender equality
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    Movies need to pass test that gauges the active presence of women on screen in bid to promote gender equality
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What language barrier? - 0 views

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    It is a truism that men and women do not communicate in the same way. But is there really any evidence to support this Mars-and-Venus theory? Oxford language professor Deborah Cameron investigates in the first of three extracts from her new book
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Speak up, I can't hear you - 2 views

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    Can it really be true that men and women understand language in different ways? Nonsense, says Deborah Cameron in this second extract from her new book - the supposed miscommunication is a myth
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