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DATE: September 10, 2026 at 04:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Researchers tracked 43,000 women for 14 years. Here’s what happened to their political views as gender equality improved.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

People who champion social equality are often the loudest critics of the political status quo. A new study finds that as nations actually achieve greater gender parity, these egalitarian individuals become much more likely to defend the very political systems they once criticized. The research, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, shows how shifting social realities can alter deep-seated psychological motives.

After World War II, democratic societies began adopting formal legal frameworks designed to guarantee gender equality. These structural changes eventually sparked a slow but steady cultural shift toward more egalitarian attitudes across the globe. Psychologists define system justification as the human tendency to defend and rationalize the existing social or political order. Historically, researchers linked this tendency to anti-egalitarian beliefs.

People who preferred strict social hierarchies generally defended the political establishment to maintain their dominant position in society. In contrast, people with egalitarian views typically criticized the establishment in hopes of dismantling those hierarchies. Social dominance theory has guided psychological research on prejudice for decades. It proposes that human societies naturally form group-based hierarchies, but individuals vary in how much they support this structure.

Researchers have documented how a preference for hierarchy predicts prejudice against minority groups and opposition to affirmative action. Conversely, individuals who favor equality actively scan their environments for signs of unfairness and work to dismantle power imbalances. For a long time, researchers viewed these egalitarian individuals as permanent critics of the status quo. Psychologists assumed that the drive to achieve equality inherently required a person to challenge the institutions around them.

Yet, recent studies show that egalitarian people are highly accurate at detecting when inequality is actually absent. This raised a new question for psychologists. If a society successfully implements equal rights, egalitarians might logically shift from criticizing the system to defending it. Sarah Buhl, a psychologist at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, led a research team to test this idea in a real-world setting.

Buhl and her colleagues focused on New Zealand. Over the past decade and a half, the country has achieved high levels of gender equality, including reaching gender parity in its parliament. The researchers wanted to see if this measurable increase in societal fairness altered how women viewed the political establishment.

The researchers analyzed fourteen years of survey responses from 43,924 women who participated in the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study between 2009 and 2023. The surveys asked participants to rate their agreement with statements supporting group-based hierarchies, which measured their level of egalitarianism. The surveys also asked participants how much they believed the national political system operated as it should, providing a measure of system justification.

To track objective changes in societal fairness, the team paired these survey responses with the country’s annual score on the Global Gender Gap Index. This index measures national parity in areas like economic participation, political empowerment, health, and education. By tracking the same women over time using a statistical technique called multi-level modeling, the researchers could observe how individual beliefs shifted in tandem with national progress.

In the earlier years of the study, when gender inequality was relatively high, the results aligned with traditional psychological expectations. Women who held anti-egalitarian views strongly defended the political system. Meanwhile, women with egalitarian views were highly critical of the establishment.

As New Zealand became more gender-equal over the fourteen-year period, this dynamic shifted. The overall population became more egalitarian. At the same time, the most egalitarian women grew less critical of the political status quo.

Because the establishment was increasingly reflecting their own values, these women began to legitimize the socio-political system. The research team used specialized statistical tests to ensure the timeline of these changes made sense. They confirmed that shifts in national gender equality preceded the changes in how women justified the system.

The research team also broke the data down by demographic groups to see if the benefits of gender equality were felt universally. They compared the responses of women from majoritized backgrounds, defined in this study as white and heterosexual, to women from minoritized backgrounds. Minoritized groups included ethnic minorities and non-heterosexual women.

The shift in system defense was driven entirely by majoritized women. As national gender equality rose, egalitarian women from majority groups became more supportive of the political system. They experienced the direct benefits of these societal changes and adjusted their political views accordingly.

For minoritized women, the rise in national gender equality did not change the relationship between their personal beliefs and their view of the establishment. Egalitarian women from minority groups remained highly critical of the political system regardless of the country’s rising score on the Global Gender Gap Index. These groups often continue to face compounded disadvantages that broad gender parity metrics do not fully capture.

When the researchers analyzed data from male participants in the same national survey, they found a different pattern. The rise in national gender equality did not lead egalitarian men to increasingly defend the system. The research team suspects this is because rising gender equality creates a psychological conflict for men, who traditionally benefit from patriarchal structures. Because men’s group interests do not directly align with dismantling male advantages, their responses to an increasingly equal status quo were more ambiguous.

Because New Zealand is already one of the most socially progressive countries in the world, the actual variation in gender equality over the study period was relatively small. The changes in survey responses, while mathematically robust, were similarly subtle. Testing these ideas in countries undergoing more dramatic social transformations could reveal even stronger shifts in public attitudes.

The Global Gender Gap Index also functions as a broad proxy for fairness. It heavily weighs representation in corporate leadership and national politics, which might not reflect the daily realities of domestic life or unpaid labor. Future studies could explore how the division of household chores or local community dynamics influences a person’s willingness to defend the political system.

Because the data relies on observing natural changes over time, it cannot prove that the rising equality scores directly caused the psychological shifts. Experimental research where participants are exposed to different levels of social progress could help confirm the exact mechanisms at play. Understanding these changes will help psychologists map how human behavior adapts to an increasingly equal world.

The study, “Rebels With(Out) a Cause: The Influence of Gender Inequality on the Relationship Between Egalitarianism and System Justification,” was authored by Sarah Buhl, Danny Osborne, Chris G. Sibley, and Frank Asbrock.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

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DATE: September 10, 2026 at 04:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
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TITLE: Researchers tracked 43,000 women for 14 years. Here’s what happened to their political views as gender equality improved.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

People who champion social equality are often the loudest critics of the political status quo. A new study finds that as nations actually achieve greater gender parity, these egalitarian individuals become much more likely to defend the very political systems they once criticized. The research, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, shows how shifting social realities can alter deep-seated psychological motives.

After World War II, democratic societies began adopting formal legal frameworks designed to guarantee gender equality. These structural changes eventually sparked a slow but steady cultural shift toward more egalitarian attitudes across the globe. Psychologists define system justification as the human tendency to defend and rationalize the existing social or political order. Historically, researchers linked this tendency to anti-egalitarian beliefs.

People who preferred strict social hierarchies generally defended the political establishment to maintain their dominant position in society. In contrast, people with egalitarian views typically criticized the establishment in hopes of dismantling those hierarchies. Social dominance theory has guided psychological research on prejudice for decades. It proposes that human societies naturally form group-based hierarchies, but individuals vary in how much they support this structure.

Researchers have documented how a preference for hierarchy predicts prejudice against minority groups and opposition to affirmative action. Conversely, individuals who favor equality actively scan their environments for signs of unfairness and work to dismantle power imbalances. For a long time, researchers viewed these egalitarian individuals as permanent critics of the status quo. Psychologists assumed that the drive to achieve equality inherently required a person to challenge the institutions around them.

Yet, recent studies show that egalitarian people are highly accurate at detecting when inequality is actually absent. This raised a new question for psychologists. If a society successfully implements equal rights, egalitarians might logically shift from criticizing the system to defending it. Sarah Buhl, a psychologist at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, led a research team to test this idea in a real-world setting.

Buhl and her colleagues focused on New Zealand. Over the past decade and a half, the country has achieved high levels of gender equality, including reaching gender parity in its parliament. The researchers wanted to see if this measurable increase in societal fairness altered how women viewed the political establishment.

The researchers analyzed fourteen years of survey responses from 43,924 women who participated in the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study between 2009 and 2023. The surveys asked participants to rate their agreement with statements supporting group-based hierarchies, which measured their level of egalitarianism. The surveys also asked participants how much they believed the national political system operated as it should, providing a measure of system justification.

To track objective changes in societal fairness, the team paired these survey responses with the country’s annual score on the Global Gender Gap Index. This index measures national parity in areas like economic participation, political empowerment, health, and education. By tracking the same women over time using a statistical technique called multi-level modeling, the researchers could observe how individual beliefs shifted in tandem with national progress.

In the earlier years of the study, when gender inequality was relatively high, the results aligned with traditional psychological expectations. Women who held anti-egalitarian views strongly defended the political system. Meanwhile, women with egalitarian views were highly critical of the establishment.

As New Zealand became more gender-equal over the fourteen-year period, this dynamic shifted. The overall population became more egalitarian. At the same time, the most egalitarian women grew less critical of the political status quo.

Because the establishment was increasingly reflecting their own values, these women began to legitimize the socio-political system. The research team used specialized statistical tests to ensure the timeline of these changes made sense. They confirmed that shifts in national gender equality preceded the changes in how women justified the system.

The research team also broke the data down by demographic groups to see if the benefits of gender equality were felt universally. They compared the responses of women from majoritized backgrounds, defined in this study as white and heterosexual, to women from minoritized backgrounds. Minoritized groups included ethnic minorities and non-heterosexual women.

The shift in system defense was driven entirely by majoritized women. As national gender equality rose, egalitarian women from majority groups became more supportive of the political system. They experienced the direct benefits of these societal changes and adjusted their political views accordingly.

For minoritized women, the rise in national gender equality did not change the relationship between their personal beliefs and their view of the establishment. Egalitarian women from minority groups remained highly critical of the political system regardless of the country’s rising score on the Global Gender Gap Index. These groups often continue to face compounded disadvantages that broad gender parity metrics do not fully capture.

When the researchers analyzed data from male participants in the same national survey, they found a different pattern. The rise in national gender equality did not lead egalitarian men to increasingly defend the system. The research team suspects this is because rising gender equality creates a psychological conflict for men, who traditionally benefit from patriarchal structures. Because men’s group interests do not directly align with dismantling male advantages, their responses to an increasingly equal status quo were more ambiguous.

Because New Zealand is already one of the most socially progressive countries in the world, the actual variation in gender equality over the study period was relatively small. The changes in survey responses, while mathematically robust, were similarly subtle. Testing these ideas in countries undergoing more dramatic social transformations could reveal even stronger shifts in public attitudes.

The Global Gender Gap Index also functions as a broad proxy for fairness. It heavily weighs representation in corporate leadership and national politics, which might not reflect the daily realities of domestic life or unpaid labor. Future studies could explore how the division of household chores or local community dynamics influences a person’s willingness to defend the political system.

Because the data relies on observing natural changes over time, it cannot prove that the rising equality scores directly caused the psychological shifts. Experimental research where participants are exposed to different levels of social progress could help confirm the exact mechanisms at play. Understanding these changes will help psychologists map how human behavior adapts to an increasingly equal world.

The study, “Rebels With(Out) a Cause: The Influence of Gender Inequality on the Relationship Between Egalitarianism and System Justification,” was authored by Sarah Buhl, Danny Osborne, Chris G. Sibley, and Frank Asbrock.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

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DATE: September 10, 2026 at 04:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
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TITLE: Researchers tracked 43,000 women for 14 years. Here’s what happened to their political views as gender equality improved.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

People who champion social equality are often the loudest critics of the political status quo. A new study finds that as nations actually achieve greater gender parity, these egalitarian individuals become much more likely to defend the very political systems they once criticized. The research, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, shows how shifting social realities can alter deep-seated psychological motives.

After World War II, democratic societies began adopting formal legal frameworks designed to guarantee gender equality. These structural changes eventually sparked a slow but steady cultural shift toward more egalitarian attitudes across the globe. Psychologists define system justification as the human tendency to defend and rationalize the existing social or political order. Historically, researchers linked this tendency to anti-egalitarian beliefs.

People who preferred strict social hierarchies generally defended the political establishment to maintain their dominant position in society. In contrast, people with egalitarian views typically criticized the establishment in hopes of dismantling those hierarchies. Social dominance theory has guided psychological research on prejudice for decades. It proposes that human societies naturally form group-based hierarchies, but individuals vary in how much they support this structure.

Researchers have documented how a preference for hierarchy predicts prejudice against minority groups and opposition to affirmative action. Conversely, individuals who favor equality actively scan their environments for signs of unfairness and work to dismantle power imbalances. For a long time, researchers viewed these egalitarian individuals as permanent critics of the status quo. Psychologists assumed that the drive to achieve equality inherently required a person to challenge the institutions around them.

Yet, recent studies show that egalitarian people are highly accurate at detecting when inequality is actually absent. This raised a new question for psychologists. If a society successfully implements equal rights, egalitarians might logically shift from criticizing the system to defending it. Sarah Buhl, a psychologist at Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, led a research team to test this idea in a real-world setting.

Buhl and her colleagues focused on New Zealand. Over the past decade and a half, the country has achieved high levels of gender equality, including reaching gender parity in its parliament. The researchers wanted to see if this measurable increase in societal fairness altered how women viewed the political establishment.

The researchers analyzed fourteen years of survey responses from 43,924 women who participated in the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study between 2009 and 2023. The surveys asked participants to rate their agreement with statements supporting group-based hierarchies, which measured their level of egalitarianism. The surveys also asked participants how much they believed the national political system operated as it should, providing a measure of system justification.

To track objective changes in societal fairness, the team paired these survey responses with the country’s annual score on the Global Gender Gap Index. This index measures national parity in areas like economic participation, political empowerment, health, and education. By tracking the same women over time using a statistical technique called multi-level modeling, the researchers could observe how individual beliefs shifted in tandem with national progress.

In the earlier years of the study, when gender inequality was relatively high, the results aligned with traditional psychological expectations. Women who held anti-egalitarian views strongly defended the political system. Meanwhile, women with egalitarian views were highly critical of the establishment.

As New Zealand became more gender-equal over the fourteen-year period, this dynamic shifted. The overall population became more egalitarian. At the same time, the most egalitarian women grew less critical of the political status quo.

Because the establishment was increasingly reflecting their own values, these women began to legitimize the socio-political system. The research team used specialized statistical tests to ensure the timeline of these changes made sense. They confirmed that shifts in national gender equality preceded the changes in how women justified the system.

The research team also broke the data down by demographic groups to see if the benefits of gender equality were felt universally. They compared the responses of women from majoritized backgrounds, defined in this study as white and heterosexual, to women from minoritized backgrounds. Minoritized groups included ethnic minorities and non-heterosexual women.

The shift in system defense was driven entirely by majoritized women. As national gender equality rose, egalitarian women from majority groups became more supportive of the political system. They experienced the direct benefits of these societal changes and adjusted their political views accordingly.

For minoritized women, the rise in national gender equality did not change the relationship between their personal beliefs and their view of the establishment. Egalitarian women from minority groups remained highly critical of the political system regardless of the country’s rising score on the Global Gender Gap Index. These groups often continue to face compounded disadvantages that broad gender parity metrics do not fully capture.

When the researchers analyzed data from male participants in the same national survey, they found a different pattern. The rise in national gender equality did not lead egalitarian men to increasingly defend the system. The research team suspects this is because rising gender equality creates a psychological conflict for men, who traditionally benefit from patriarchal structures. Because men’s group interests do not directly align with dismantling male advantages, their responses to an increasingly equal status quo were more ambiguous.

Because New Zealand is already one of the most socially progressive countries in the world, the actual variation in gender equality over the study period was relatively small. The changes in survey responses, while mathematically robust, were similarly subtle. Testing these ideas in countries undergoing more dramatic social transformations could reveal even stronger shifts in public attitudes.

The Global Gender Gap Index also functions as a broad proxy for fairness. It heavily weighs representation in corporate leadership and national politics, which might not reflect the daily realities of domestic life or unpaid labor. Future studies could explore how the division of household chores or local community dynamics influences a person’s willingness to defend the political system.

Because the data relies on observing natural changes over time, it cannot prove that the rising equality scores directly caused the psychological shifts. Experimental research where participants are exposed to different levels of social progress could help confirm the exact mechanisms at play. Understanding these changes will help psychologists map how human behavior adapts to an increasingly equal world.

The study, “Rebels With(Out) a Cause: The Influence of Gender Inequality on the Relationship Between Egalitarianism and System Justification,” was authored by Sarah Buhl, Danny Osborne, Chris G. Sibley, and Frank Asbrock.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/when-equality-rises-egalitarians-start-defending-the-establishment/

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https://www.europesays.com/africa/419276/ Namibia Turns Cultural Data Into a New Force for Sustainable Growth #ArtsAndCulture #CreativeIndustries #CulturalData #CulturalHeritage #CulturalPolicy #Culture2030Indicators #EconomicDiversification #EuropeanUnion #GenderEquality #Namibia #SocialCohesion #SustainableDevelopment #UNESCO #windhoek #YouthEmployment

The day France was asked to make its women invisible https://english.mathrubhumi.com/columns/eiffel-tower-baps-controversy-gender-equality-france-ikmvm3qh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #France #BAPS #GenderEquality #ReligiousFreedom

The day France was asked to make its women invisible https://english.mathrubhumi.com/columns/eiffel-tower-baps-controversy-gender-equality-france-ikmvm3qh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #France #BAPS #GenderEquality #ReligiousFreedom

The day France was asked to make its women invisible https://english.mathrubhumi.com/columns/eiffel-tower-baps-controversy-gender-equality-france-ikmvm3qh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #France #BAPS #GenderEquality #ReligiousFreedom

The day France was asked to make its women invisible https://english.mathrubhumi.com/columns/eiffel-tower-baps-controversy-gender-equality-france-ikmvm3qh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #France #BAPS #GenderEquality #ReligiousFreedom

📉 Ah, the age-old question: should society bother "investing" in mothers? 🤔 Spoiler alert: the study suggests it might actually help them work and earn money. Because who would have thought that supporting half the population could lead to positive outcomes? 🙄
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35514 #investingInMothers #positiveOutcomes #genderEquality #supportWorkingMothers #economicBenefits #HackerNews #ngated

The Eiffel Tower was shut down on Monday after staff went on strike over female employees being sidelined to accommodate a visiting Hindu group. Details on the controversy: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/eiffel-tower-shut-after-strike-over-unacceptable-removal-of-female-staff-for-hindu-groups-visit-oi2yvd48?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #ParisNews #BAPS #GenderEquality #France

The Eiffel Tower was shut down on Monday after staff went on strike over female employees being sidelined to accommodate a visiting Hindu group. Details on the controversy: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/eiffel-tower-shut-after-strike-over-unacceptable-removal-of-female-staff-for-hindu-groups-visit-oi2yvd48?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #ParisNews #BAPS #GenderEquality #France

The Eiffel Tower was shut down on Monday after staff went on strike over female employees being sidelined to accommodate a visiting Hindu group. Details on the controversy: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/eiffel-tower-shut-after-strike-over-unacceptable-removal-of-female-staff-for-hindu-groups-visit-oi2yvd48?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #ParisNews #BAPS #GenderEquality #France

The Eiffel Tower was shut down on Monday after staff went on strike over female employees being sidelined to accommodate a visiting Hindu group. Details on the controversy: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/eiffel-tower-shut-after-strike-over-unacceptable-removal-of-female-staff-for-hindu-groups-visit-oi2yvd48?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EiffelTower #ParisNews #BAPS #GenderEquality #France

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem dies at age 92

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/people/obituary/feminist-activist-gloria-steinem-dies/

📢 P-WILL FINAL CONFERENCE | BRUSSELS + ONLINE | 2–3 SEPTEMBER 2026

💜 Feminist Digital Platforms: Theories, Alternative Models etc !

Tomorrow Sofia Kypraiou, Jessica Pidoux and Anton Fedosov will present: Digipower: A Participatory Tool for Investigating Platform Work Through Personal Data at the final P-WILL Conference on Gender, Power & Technology.

📅 2–3 September 2026
📍 Manhattan Center, Brussels
🎟️ Free participation in Brussels
💻 Worldwide online streaming

Full programme:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/140c1P57P1OiKWJDMzF0d8hqWC6qqq0wBf64wfA_-lf4/edit

🌐 https://pwill.eu
💻 Streaming: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86923489899

#PWILL #COSTAction #PlatformWork #GenderEquality #DigitalLabour #FeministPlatforms

Documentary ‘Skateboarding Is Not for Girls’ Explores Gender Barriers Beyond the Skate Park

https://justpaste.in/movies/documentary-skateboarding-is-not-for-girls-explores-gender-barriers-beyond-the-skate-park/

#Documentary #filmfestival #genderequality #Olympicsports #skateboarding

Falling short again…
Cartoon by Adam Ziglys

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NtwiCJxvU/

#worldcup #cartoon #football #equalpay #womenfootball #genderpaygap #soccer #womensoccer #genderequality #USpol #usasoccer #AdamZiglys #feminist #usa

The first-daughter effect, in which fathers whose first child is a daughter become more supportive of gender equality, has been replicated in Japan, where there is a high degree of gender inequality.

Summary: https://www.psypost.org/the-first-daughter-effect-how-raising-girls-changes-fathers-political-views-in-japan/

Original paper: https://academic.oup.com/poq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/poq/nfag040/8706729?login=false

#Science #Psychology #Daughters #GenderEquality #Politics

Study Reveals Gender Pay Gaps Among Freelance Photographers https://petapixel.com/2026/06/10/study-reveals-gender-pay-gaps-among-freelance-photographers/ #freelancephotographers #femalephotographers #womenphotographers #genderequality #genderpaygap #salary #News

How inspirational women lead the way for Wines of Argentina

During International Women’s Month, the drinks business shines a light on the women from Wines of Argentina (WofA) who deserve recogni…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Argentinewine #Argentina #ArgentinianWine #femaleempowerment #genderequality #internationalwomen'smonth #Wine #WinesfromArgentina #WinesofArgentina #WofA #womenofArgentina
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2635497/how-inspirational-women-lead-the-way-for-wines-of-argentina/

How inspirational women lead the way for Wines of Argentina

During International Women’s Month, the drinks business shines a light on the women from Wines of Argentina (WofA) who deserve recogni…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Argentinewine #Argentina #ArgentinianWine #femaleempowerment #genderequality #internationalwomen'smonth #Wine #WinesfromArgentina #WinesofArgentina #WofA #womenofArgentina
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2635497/how-inspirational-women-lead-the-way-for-wines-of-argentina/

How inspirational women lead the way for Wines of Argentina

During International Women’s Month, the drinks business shines a light on the women from Wines of Argentina (WofA) who deserve recogni…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Argentinewine #Argentina #ArgentinianWine #femaleempowerment #genderequality #internationalwomen'smonth #Wine #WinesfromArgentina #WinesofArgentina #WofA #womenofArgentina
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2635497/how-inspirational-women-lead-the-way-for-wines-of-argentina/

How inspirational women lead the way for Wines of Argentina

During International Women’s Month, the drinks business shines a light on the women from Wines of Argentina (WofA) who deserve recogni…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Argentinewine #Argentina #ArgentinianWine #femaleempowerment #genderequality #internationalwomen'smonth #Wine #WinesfromArgentina #WinesofArgentina #WofA #womenofArgentina
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2635497/how-inspirational-women-lead-the-way-for-wines-of-argentina/

Supreme Court Questions Standing of Non-Devotees in Sabarimala Customary Challenge

Supreme Court questions if people who are not devotees can challenge Sabarimala temple's rules about women's entry. This could affect other religious places.

#Sabarimala, #SupremeCourt, #ReligiousFreedom, #GenderEquality, #IndianLaw

https://newsletter.tf/supreme-court-questions-non-devotees-sabarimala-rules/

The Supreme Court is asking if outsiders can challenge religious rules, like those at Sabarimala. This is a big question for many temples and mosques.

#Sabarimala, #SupremeCourt, #ReligiousFreedom, #GenderEquality, #IndianLaw
https://newsletter.tf/supreme-court-questions-non-devotees-sabarimala-rules/

Accelerators Falter in Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: New Findings Emerge

New research shows women-led startups in countries with high gender inequality gain no money from accelerators. This affects women's business growth.

#WomenInBusiness, #StartupLife, #Entrepreneurship, #GenderEquality, #AcceleratorFail

https://newsletter.tf/women-entrepreneurs-accelerators-no-money-gain/

Women entrepreneurs in countries with high gender inequality are not making more money from startup accelerators, unlike men. This is a big change for business support.

#WomenInBusiness, #StartupLife, #Entrepreneurship, #GenderEquality, #AcceleratorFail
https://newsletter.tf/women-entrepreneurs-accelerators-no-money-gain/

There’s a lot being said right now about inclusion.

But inclusion is often understood as access, not recognition.

And those are not the same thing.

For many women, especially those moving across borders, this line is lived every day.

Not as absence of ability, but as absence of recognition.

This piece is about what happens when that line is redrawn.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/more-than-food-how-we-cheffes-is?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#GenderEquality #SocialInnovation
#Inclusion #MigrationStories #EUValues #SocialImpact #Community #HumanStories

Check out our latest blog post by Shreya Roychoudhury, the founder of Mathemagica (Instagram: @math.emagica): “I am an engineer, a founder, and a woman who refuses to be subtracted from the equation. At Mathemagica, we are proving that while prejudice might be a variable we have to deal with, our potential is a constant. We are here to stay, and we are here to solve.”

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/the-magic-in-the-numbers-the-story-of-mathemagica

#GenderEquality #Teaching #WomenInTech #HerMathsStory

Check out our latest blog post by Shreya Roychoudhury, the founder of Mathemagica (Instagram: @math.emagica): “I am an engineer, a founder, and a woman who refuses to be subtracted from the equation. At Mathemagica, we are proving that while prejudice might be a variable we have to deal with, our potential is a constant. We are here to stay, and we are here to solve.”

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/the-magic-in-the-numbers-the-story-of-mathemagica

#GenderEquality #Teaching #WomenInTech #HerMathsStory

Check out our latest blog post by Shreya Roychoudhury, the founder of Mathemagica (Instagram: @math.emagica): “I am an engineer, a founder, and a woman who refuses to be subtracted from the equation. At Mathemagica, we are proving that while prejudice might be a variable we have to deal with, our potential is a constant. We are here to stay, and we are here to solve.”

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/the-magic-in-the-numbers-the-story-of-mathemagica

#GenderEquality #Teaching #WomenInTech #HerMathsStory

Check out our latest blog post by Shreya Roychoudhury, the founder of Mathemagica (Instagram: @math.emagica): “I am an engineer, a founder, and a woman who refuses to be subtracted from the equation. At Mathemagica, we are proving that while prejudice might be a variable we have to deal with, our potential is a constant. We are here to stay, and we are here to solve.”

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/the-magic-in-the-numbers-the-story-of-mathemagica

#GenderEquality #Teaching #WomenInTech #HerMathsStory

Check out our latest blog post by Shreya Roychoudhury, the founder of Mathemagica (Instagram: @math.emagica): “I am an engineer, a founder, and a woman who refuses to be subtracted from the equation. At Mathemagica, we are proving that while prejudice might be a variable we have to deal with, our potential is a constant. We are here to stay, and we are here to solve.”

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/the-magic-in-the-numbers-the-story-of-mathemagica

#GenderEquality #Teaching #WomenInTech #HerMathsStory

Watch Jesse Jackson get a bunch of kids to chant a 'I Am Somebody' on 'Sesame Street'

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/jesse-jackson-sesame-street-1970s-declaration-ex1

🚺 Jeden dritten Tag wird eine Frau von ihrem Partner oder Ex-Partner in Baden-Württemberg umgebracht. Baden-Württemberg macht sich für den Schutz von Frauen vor Gewalt stark: Unsere Staatssekretärin Dr. Ute Leidig hat heute den umfassenden Landesaktionsplan zur Umsetzung der Istanbul-Konvention vorgestellt. 47 Maßnahmen sollen dazu beitragen, Femizide in Zukunft zu verhindern. Er soll betroffenen Mädchen und Frauen ein leichterer Zugang zu Schutz- und Hilfsangeboten möglich gemacht werden, u.a. durch:

🚺 den Ausbau der Schutzplätze
🚺 einen verbesserten Zugang zu Fachberatungsstellen
🚺 den Ausbau der verfahrensunabhängigen Spurensicherung
🚺 landesweite Sensibilisierungskampagnen

➡️ https://t1p.de/6rpu9

#Femizid #IstanbulKonvention #StopFemizid #WomensRights #GenderEquality #ProtectWomen #AwarenessCampaign #SayNoToFemizid #WomenEmpowerment

Thank you @unesco and all the participants for the important discussion.

#ArtistsAtRisk #Perpetuum #UNESCO #MONDIACULT2025 #ArtisticFreedom #GenderEquality #CulturalPolicies

Thank you @unesco and all the participants for the important discussion.

#ArtistsAtRisk #Perpetuum #UNESCO #MONDIACULT2025 #ArtisticFreedom #GenderEquality #CulturalPolicies

Thank you @unesco and all the participants for the important discussion.

#ArtistsAtRisk #Perpetuum #UNESCO #MONDIACULT2025 #ArtisticFreedom #GenderEquality #CulturalPolicies

#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

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I’m a proud dad today.

In her English test my daughter was told to read an autobiographical text and then infer the author’s gender from hobbies like ”skateboarding”.

She wouldn’t have any of it.

#Gender #School #Sexism #Education #GenderEquality #Feminism #GenderNorms #Stereotypes

Women exhibit less manipulative personality traits in more gender-equal countries https://www.psypost.org/women-exhibit-less-manipulative-personality-traits-in-more-gender-equal-countries/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #Machiavellianism #SocialPsychology #PersonalityTraits

A female friend just described "drag" as offensive to women and effectively "gender blackface".

It took a moment for it to register, but now I get it.

#GenderEquality #DragShows

In a field where men have historically been treated as the default and female aspects have been under-researched and under-funded, it’s no surprise that postpartum depression, which happens to 1 in 7 women, hasn’t been treatable with a simple pill—until now. Progress happens. #FeministFriday #GenderEquality #PostpartumDepression #PPD #zuranolone #zurzuvae #MedicalResearch #research

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Twelve Women Accuse ANTI-FLAG's JUSTIN SANE Of Rape, Sexual Assault & Predatory Behavior
It's pretty bad.

https://metalinjection.net/news/twelve-women-accuse-anti-flags-justin-sane-of-rape-sexual-assault-predatory-behavior

#AntiFlag #JustinSane #SexualAssault #Rape #PredatoryBehavior #MeToo #GenderEquality #SocialJustice #JusticeSystemReform #VictimSupport #SupportSurvivors #EndRapeCulture #CreateSafety #ConsentCulture

‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: Nomiku Founder CEO Lisa Fetterman on why Silicon Valley doesn’t care about female founders - Welcome to this week’s transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. We’re running an ... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ri-I3beS-kQ/ #thisisyourlifeinsiliconvalley #foundationcapital #podcasttranscript #venturecapital #femalefounders #genderequality #socialequality #sunilrajaraman #ycombinator #bittorrent #policy