Tag: sexism
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Nation & World
How women led anti-Trump resistance
Washington Post political columnist Jennifer Rubin discusses the key role women played in the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s presidency in advance of her Oct. 7 virtual book talk at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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Nation & World
Is an artist obliged to stand up for injustice and inequity?
The A.R.T. presents Company One’s production, “Hype Man: a break beat play,” which follows three hip-hop artists as they wrestle with these questions from their rehearsal space to the stage and the streets and back again, against a backdrop of racist violence and inequality. It streams at select times through May 6.
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Nation & World
Madame Secretary
Former diplomat Madeleine Albright says sexism was a bigger hurdle at home than abroad.
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Nation & World
Principled yet just, pragmatic yet idealistic — and nice
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, recipient of the 2020 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, talks about leadership challenges and how she’s dealt with crises from the outside, like the coronavirus pandemic, and from the inside, like self-doubt and sexism in politics.
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Nation & World
The internal marriage tax of women M.B.A.s
Study says that female M.B.A. students may downplay their career ambitions if they sense doing otherwise will harm their marriage prospects.
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Nation & World
A way with other words
Sexism, racism, and even neglect can stand in the way of a great writer receiving a Nobel Prize. But of all the barriers, it is language that remains the most…