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#sexism

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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"L’UNI (Union Nationale Inter-universitaire) naît en 1969 pour contrer la subversion émancipatrice de mai 68, en se définissant idéologiquement comme gaulliste d’ordre, une position conservatrice et anti-marxiste. Financée par Pompidou, soutenue par Charles Pasqua, et appuyée par le Service d’Action Civique (SAC, milice gaulliste responsable de plusieurs dizaines d’assassinats politiques), l’UNI compense ses débuts difficiles par des actions violentes dans les facs aux côtés des néonazis du GUD (Groupe Union Défense).

Dans les années qui suivent, l’UNI se lie toujours plus avec l’Extrême-Droite (ED) en se rapprochant du Parti des Forces Nouvelles (néofasciste) ainsi que du Front National. L’UNI tient des positions réactionnaires, s’opposant notamment à la légalisation de l’avortement, au pacte civil de solidarité (PACS) pour les homosexuel·les et en soutenant la réforme des retraites de 2003 et 2010."—Mars Info

Enquête inter-collective sur l'UNI : une organisation fasciste >

mars-infos.org/enquete-inter-c >

Marseille Infos Autonomes · Enquête inter-collective sur l'UNI : une organisation fasciste !By Marseille Infos Autonomes
#France#UnionNationaleInteruniversitaire#UNI
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 12, 1963: Mexican journalist and human rights activist, Lydia Cacho, was born on this day. She has reported extensively on violence and sexual abuse against women in Mexico. In 2006, she reported on the hundreds of female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. That same year, a tape emerged of a conversation between businessman Kamel Nacif Borge and the governor of Puebla, in which they conspired to have her beaten and raped for her reporting.

Cacho, looking directly at the camera, smiling, with long black hair. By Eneas De Troya - https://www.flickr.com/photos/eneas/21583878214, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86503413
#LaborHistory#workingclass#rape
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MikeDunnAuthor

Covid is no worse than the flu?

I know, I have now led dozens of posts over the past few years with this sarcastic question. But now, with the pandemic officially declared over by the politicians and the majority of the public behaving as though Covid19 is no longer a threat, it seems particularly apropos in light of the reasons for declaring the pandemic over: to get people back to work and back to consuming. Yet, as the data from this study show, Long Covid has had an enormous negative impact on the income and quality of life for millions of Americans, particularly the poor and working class, and particularly for African Americans and women.

*Nearly 1 in 7 working-age adults in the U.S. had experienced Long Covid by the end of 2023
*Socially disadvantaged adults were 152% more likely to suffer from Long Covid
*Groups with higher risk for Long Covid include being Black, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Female, or low income
*In 2022, people with Long Covid lost $211 billion in wages
*In 2023, people with Long Covid lost $218 billion in wages

One reason for the disproportionate effect of Long Covid on marginalized communities, particularly BIPOC and poor people, is that these groups suffer disproportionately from chronically elevated levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, due to the stress caused by racism, sexism, homophobia, and poverty. Elevated Cortisol levels are also associated with increased risk of heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, as well as impaired immune function.

For a really good documentary on the Social Determinants of Health and the relationship between racism and poverty on stress/cortisol levels and negative health outcomes, please see the Unnatural Causes video series

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studie

CIDRAPStudies: 1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor
#covid#COVID19#longcovid
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

For those of you interested in the gender pay gap (which I'm assuming is most of you/us), here is the data for the countries of the EU.

For comparison in the UK (expressed differently) the GPG is around 13% which, would make it in these terms around 87% of male pay (the UK figure is the median pay rate for both genders).

To say this is a problem that still requires work would be an understatement

#sexism #inequality
#economics

Chart: Whats does a woman earn compared to a man; While a man earns 100& a women earns: [slected lines] EU average - 88% Luxembourg - 100.9% Italy - 92.8% Spain - 90.8% France - 87.8% Germany - 82.4% Austrai - 81.7%
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Still Mad About CD Prices

Great paper. 62 countries. N>33,000.
Across cultures

  • Hostile and benevolent sexism are almost always correlated

  • Hostile and benevolent attitudes toward men also almost always positively correlated

#culture and #patriarchy do their thing, pushing everyone toward rigidly-defined gender roles, partly with Benevolent Sexist ideas like "Women are pure and wholesome" and "Men are caring breadwinners." Neither of those is universally true, and both are only applied in certain situations. In other situations, the hostile sexism comes out, e.g. "Women are dishonest sluts" and "Men are violent abusers."

Culture is a bastard in most cases.

Bosson et al. 2021

(edit: everything in this post is from the intro/literature review)

Joint endorsement of hostile and benevolent gender ideologies is theorized as essential for maintaining the gender hierarchy in which women and men hold unequal power while also depending on one another to meet important goals (Glick & Fiske, 1996, 2001). Indeed, cross- cultural studies indicate that HS and BS are almost universally positively correlated (Glick et al., 2000), as are HM and BM (Glick et al., 2004). Thus, cultures that endorse more hostile ideologies about both women and men also tend to offset these negative views with more flattering, benevolent ideologies about each gender group, with medium-to-large pair-wise correlations between these ideologies (rs=.34-.69; Glick et al., 2004).
#psychology#PrecariousManhood#FragileMasculinity
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

Just thinking of how easily I've been paid less, laid off, bullied, etc because people didn't like an outspoken disabled woman...

Yet folks tolerate or even promote the malignant failsons running the country right now.

Stop the failsons early - stop bullying marginalized people and instead draw the line with privileged fucking fascists early in their development. #USpol #Ableism #Sexism #Capitalism

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Q. is there a growing epidemic of misogyny among school children?

research commissioned by the BBC suggests incidents of misogynic behaviour & expression(s) are increasing.... this would suggest not only are young females lives already being impacted by sexism, we are storing up more trouble when these children got older.

The impact of the mano-sphere seems to be growing & its not really clear how best to tackle its corrosive influence on society!

#school #sexism
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr0z

A number of boys are playing basketball on a court outside a school building. They are in short-sleeved white shirts and it is a bright, sunny day.
BBC NewsA third of teachers reported pupil misogyny last week - surveyTeachers also told a survey commissioned by BBC News they feel ill-equipped to tackle the issue.
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