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17 votes
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Royal Navy appoints Jersey woman as first female admiral
8 votes -
Finland's football association donates sport hijabs to players – part of a series of initiatives marking fifty years of organised women's football
6 votes -
Research: Adding women to the C-suite changes how companies think
7 votes -
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
12 votes -
"You want full stadiums? We filled them": Megan Rapinoe testifies before US Congress on equal pay
4 votes -
Japanese court says it is 'unconstitutional' to bar same-sex marriage
17 votes -
DNB ASA, Norway's biggest bank, achieved the highest score for equality between the sexes of all corporations in the Equileap Gender Equality Global Report & Ranking of 2021
6 votes -
The Economist Glass-Ceiling Index 2020 – Nordic countries performed best overall, with Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway taking the top four spots
8 votes -
Norway's $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund wants the companies it invests in globally to boost the number of women on their boards
10 votes -
Pernille Harder opens up on equality in football and the time the Danish women's team took on their own national federation
3 votes -
How Iceland is closing the gender wage gap
6 votes -
Human rights groups urge driver action over F1 race in Saudi Arabia
6 votes -
Teenage girl becomes Finland's PM for the day – Aava Murto is taking over for the day as part of a campaign for girls' digital rights
12 votes -
US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of gender equality, dies at 87
76 votes -
How the pandemic could choke gender equity for female researchers in Denmark – advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch grant and fellowship schemes
3 votes -
Iceland floats idea of LGBTQ business certificate – guidelines for companies on how to foster diversity and make the labor market welcoming for all kinds of people
5 votes -
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960
8 votes -
The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
21 votes -
Reflections on being a female founder
7 votes -
Maya Moore gave up more to fight for social justice than almost any athlete
5 votes -
Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigns after controversy over treatment of staff members of color and insensitivity to racial issues
21 votes -
David Willetts discusses how baby boomers have become the biggest and richest generation in British history at the expense of younger generations
8 votes -
Men quitting masturbation: "Porn addiction" support groups reinforce damaging gender stereotypes
25 votes -
Same-sex marriages can be registered in Costa Rica starting May 26 2020
13 votes -
Private dinners where men discuss feelings and equality have taken off in Sweden – but the concept isn't without controversy
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Male players have 'more responsibility' than women, US Soccer says in court filings
6 votes -
Download the 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' short fiction bundle for free, starting this International Women’s Day
10 votes -
How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms?
6 votes -
Finnish FA drops 'women's' prefix for league in push for equality – top football league to be called National League, not Women's League
10 votes -
Lesbians make history with Northern Ireland's first same-sex marriage
10 votes -
Finland's woman-led center-left government plans to nearly double the length of paternity leave to give new fathers the same amount of paid time off work as new mothers
16 votes -
How stock buybacks made US CEOs and shareholders really rich
10 votes -
Finland's Sanna Marin hopes women leaders will be the 'new normal'
5 votes -
A showdown is looming between Spain’s conservative language academy and its newly elected socialist government over proposals to rewrite the nation’s constitution using gender-neutral language
16 votes -
The Elephant Chart and how statistics made three of them
3 votes -
Göteborg Film Festival to kick off gender-balanced programme with Maria Bäck’s Swedish drama 'Psychosis In Stockholm'
6 votes -
How valuing productivity, not profession, could reduce US inequality
5 votes -
How elite professions create inequality
5 votes -
Mansplaining convention coming to Orlando promises to 'Make Women Great Again'
16 votes -
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" - Now with new and improved(?) lyrics
We had a discussion here last year about "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and whether the lyrics to this song encourage rape. This came after a radio station pulled the song from its playlist after...
We had a discussion here last year about "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and whether the lyrics to this song encourage rape. This came after a radio station pulled the song from its playlist after people complained it was too "rapey".
Well, John Legend has re-written this song "to remove the 'date-rape' lyrics". Here is the song and here are Legend's new lyrics.
What do you think? Did the song need to be re-written? Is this an improvement? Is this the "Christmas" song we need for a post-#metoo era?
Two asides:
This isn't really a "Christmas" song.
This isn't a Christmas song. The lyrics never mention Jesus or Christmas or Santa or Yuletide or the festive season. They don't even refer to Winter! There's just one lyric saying "it's cold outside" - and, as I mentioned in my analysis of the song last year, it's not even snowing in the movie scene where this song was first used.
This is ironic timing, considering Australia's weather.
Here in Australia, half the country is on fire and we're breaking all-time heat records - and here I am, writing about a song which says it's cold outside.
16 votes -
For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
7 votes -
Feminism comes of age in Finland as female coalition takes the reins – but even there, the battle for equality isn't over
8 votes -
Suicide rates fall among LGBT+ community in Sweden and Denmark – reduced stigma for minorities is likely driving the drop, the report said
11 votes -
On October 24, 1975 over ninety percent of Icelandic women refused to work – to show how much society depended on women's labor, from farms and factories to the home
10 votes -
The state of gender equality across the EU – Sweden had the highest score of any country in 2019
12 votes -
Men and women will compete against one another, for the same prize money and trophy, in new golf event Scandinavian Mixed in Sweden next year
5 votes -
The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top
10 votes -
Denmark's gender pay gap among lowest in the world for self employed – Danes rank second in the world behind only Estonia
7 votes -
Interview with Hou Yifan, the number one female chess player in the world, on growing up as a prodigy in China, the gender gap and more
10 votes