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Birth Control Pills: Just like any Other Commodity?

You may have seen the ads on television. A young, attractive woman at a party with her friends begins speaking directly to the camera about some “misinformation seen in previous ads” for Yaz and Yasmin, two of the most popular oral contraceptives on the market.

The drugs have come under fire for causing blood clots. Although this is a risk with any birth control pill, health advocates and women who have taken the pill say that the two drugs put women at a higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills do.

Women and hidden unemployment

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The present state of public policy has disturbing implications for women and their life-long economic security.
(Reblogged from usydwomenscollective)

Dirty Dancing...A masterpeice of Feminism?

“I was 13 years old when my mom took my little sister and me to see Dirty Dancing on a hot August afternoon in 1987. Years later, my mom would admit that she was slightly horrified to realise she’d taken her two young daughters to a movie that she thought was about dancing, but was really about class, feminism, sex, rape and abortion. If she gave any indication of her squirming discomfort at the time, I didn’t notice”

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Single-gender education: Fad or future?

I went to an all-girls school, and I’m still trying to sort out how I feel about it. What do you think about single-gender education?

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But there are costs to this sisterly vigilance. Aware that others will be judging them, it makes women wonder if they’re withholding their sexuality “enough.” Or it makes them proud that they do. Either way, it says that repressing yourself is an important part of sexuality and relationships. And that’s a destructive idea.

Women are caught in a historical collision between the sexual values of the past and future. Religion, the media and our families are sending out contradictory messages about sexuality that are driving women crazy.

Consider: Today’s woman is supposed to be sexy, but not too sexy. She’s supposed to be responsive enough to validate her partner, but not too aggressive or hard to please. Sexual, but not lusty. Not frigid, but not quite red hot. Her sexuality should express love, not lust.

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What is it about the issue of climate change that means women do not get involved? Undoubtedly, in the realm of decision-making, it is a failure of politics to catch up with 21st-century equality. In terms of campaigning, environmental journalism and grassroots activism, I suspect the reasons may be more complex, and stem from women themselves feeling shut out from a lot of very male-dominated debates.
Ruth Bond