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Of Australian descent singer Helen Reddy passed on September 29, 2020 largely unnoticed, at least by me an old coffee house Marine. Helen’s song “I am Woman” was the 1972 anthem and soundtrack of the women’s movement, with the opening lyrics of “I am woman, hear me roar . . . In numbers too big to ignore” turning her into a feminist icon. In 2011, Billboard named her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time (number-9 woman). In 2013, the...

Didn't know that Marx was a feminist? Then you don't know about his wife, Jenny von Westphalen Marx. She was an aristocrat become social and political activist. Jacobin has the story of her life. ... we are in union with Marx, “to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, forsaken, despicable being”.... The German term Marx uses that is translated "man" here is Menschen. While it is correct to translate Menschen as "man" in the generic, non-gender specific sense, the...

Why is this important in economics? First, women now control a signficant slice of the pie, and secondly, women have an increasingly strong political voice to match their growing economic power.This is chiefly a political battle between liberals and traditionalists. Identity politics is here to stay.Economics is strong influenced by policy. On the programme, scientists argue there is no obvious neurological explanation for the gender divide, with no significant difference between male and...

That is, why are there so few women in the hard STEM fields that involve high-level mathematical and spatial-visual cognitive ability?The Cultural Left, the Liberals and even some Conservatives have offered various explanations for this, but most of their theories are false or feeble, and some on the Cultural Left are basically unhinged conspiracy theories.As it happens, there is a straight-forward scientific explanation, and backed up by a mountain of scientific evidence.Unfortunately, it...

He rarely criticises it, but this is surprisingly blunt:“Each time labor has been attacked—and as I said, in the 1920s the labor movement was practically destroyed—popular efforts were able to reconstitute it. That can happen again. It’s not going to be easy. There are institutional barriers, ideological barriers, cultural barriers. One big problem is that the white working class has been pretty much abandoned by the political system. The Democrats don’t even try to organize them anymore....