Turns out women may not apply for a job if its description deploys words associated with male stereotypes. They’re more likely to respond to words such as “dedicated,” “responsible,” “conscientious” and “sociable” than they are to words such as “assertive,” “independent,” “aggressive” and “analytical.”
More terrible tales from Mangalore – around 30 suspected Hindu Jagran Vedike activists are alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman corporator who was on a door-to-door campaign for the Congress. (The city already has a terrible reputation for attacks by the right wing. For those of you missed it, here’s our dear friend Pramod Muthalik going bananas on hearing that people haven’t forgotten the Mangalore pub attacks).
Do you think there aren’t enough women in film because they just don’t draw audiences into the theatre? Guess what – films that pass the Bechdel Test provide good returns on investment, thank you very much.
In a huge embarrassment for the BJP, the “rainbow alliance” that it has sewn together in Tamil Nadu has failed to nominate even a single woman candidate for the Lok Sabha polls.
Anita Pratap is the AAP candidate from Ernakulam with the most money for her party. Next comes Soni Sori from Bastar, who outdoes Arvind Kejriwal in Varanasi.
About 300 women are running for provincial council seats in Afghanistan, which their Independent Election Commission says is the highest number ever. Even in conservative Kandahar Province, a tenth of the candidates are women. And for the first time, a woman (Habiba Sarobi) is running for vice president.
“Cronus-The Utopia”, a work of fiction by five Madurai girls won the third prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest – 2014, under the Literary Merit category.
In Layyah town of Pakistan, a 13-year-old rape survivor and her mother locked themselves up in a cage on Monday outside the district press club to protest the release of child ‘rapists’.
At Harvard, a sexual assault survivor writes a heartbreaking open letter to the school detailing her unsuccessful fight to get her assailant moved to a different dormitory on campus. Meanwhile, Rehabs.com reports that Ivy League schools led the USA in reports of forcible sexual assaults in 2012.
The Tejpal CCTV tapes have evidently sprouted legs, because even before the Tejpal trial begins, they’ve upped and walked over to people sympathetic to the accused. Journalists Seema Mustafa and Manu Joseph say they have seen the tapes, and that the complainant’s account is inconsistent with what the tapes show. Anurag Kashyap in a Facebook post also claims to have seen the footage (see Kavita Krishnan’s response) and has similiar feelings to declare. Viewing the tapes, Vrinda Grover has pointed out, is illegal. Anyone listening?