In the upcoming New York Times Sunday Review, American novelist Amanda Filipacchi writes of a recent discovery that further evinces the issue of sexism as it persists in the literary world. This time, it's happening on Wikipedia.
Adria Richards has publicly commented on her firing for the first time. And, well, she sounds pretty upbeat about where that conversation is headed next, considering she just lost her job after an onslaught of Internet harassment.
Don't worry, the writer behind today's offensive-to-women-in-technology-Internet-thing, "The 40 Hottest Women in Tech" slideshow over at Complex, thinks the slideshow is crap, too.
The cloud-based email startup SendGrid confirmed in a blog post Friday that it fired developer relations "evangelist" Adria Richards because of a tweet she sent about what she thought was sexist behavior at the PyCon developers conference, setting an unfortunate precedent for a tech industry with diversity problems but no shortage of "dongle" jokes.
The company that just used bridesmaids in heels to demonstrate why a female might want to buy a piece of technology? Yeah, it has a history of female stereotypes in advertising. And it just so happened to coincide with the launch of an "iPhone-killer" Galaxy phone line.
The country's propaganda campaign against its neighbors and America continues to ratchet up — it's now calling the brand-new president of South Korea a nagging "prostitute," and it may have released another anti-U.S. video — but that's actually a mild improvement.
State Rep. Ernest Hewett told a 17-year-old girl, "If you're bashful I got a snake sitting under my desk here." In public. On the record. At a legislative hearing. While she was testifying about a program to overcome social anxiety of the very sort you might develop if a creep humiliates you by saying sexual things about you in public.
The Google founder Sergey Brin's remarks about how his smartphone makes him feel emasculated was either an alienating off-color remark or a suggestion that he is turning into a robot.
Least compelling of all the arguments against Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new tyrannical order — outlawing permanent work-from-home arrangements for her employees — come from people who feel like their particular work-life patters are about to be upset .
She was all smiles before to introduce John Kerry as her replacement today, but according to plenty of still-swirling reactions to Hillary Clinton's appearance before before the the same Senate committee yesterday, Clinton looked like just like an angry, reactionary lady.
For all those brogrammer naysayers, Silicon Valley has given us video proof that the sexist frat-boy programmer does exist, with this NSFW video advertisement from Runa Capital, a "technology-focused" venture capital firm,
The always playfully catty hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe got into a legitimately testy confrontation today.
Bloomberg Businessweek has been getting high marks as of late for being funny, smart, and witty. However, this past weekend all that went missing when it asked where the hottest girls go to business school.
"Can you believe we're talking about this in 2012?" asks New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan in a piece regarding a recent inflammatory situation involving best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner and New York Times Magazine contributor Andrew Goldman. She's talking about the way we talk about sexism.
Discovered: Korean eunuchs outlived endowed peers; uncertainty lingers about Omega-3 pills; sexism in science; sustained thought kills cooperation.
Today's New York Times Thursday Styles section features a story by Laura M. Holson all about the busy philanthropic life of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's wife, Wendy Schimdt, who spends a lot of her time (and money) making life better on the island of Nantucket.
Donald Trump's tweet that Arianna Huffington "is unattractive both inside and out" reminds us that there are good ways and bad ways to deliver a pithy online retort. His is the latter.
The boys on the bus are kind of a boys' club, as a new study from the Women's Media Center and the 4th Estate Project found that 72 percent of newspapers articles covering the general election between April 16 and August 25 were written by men.
Augusta National Golf Club, the oldest old boys club in America, has finally accepted its first two women members, and one of them is former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Today, the Internet learned about what it's like to be a female technology writer from the perspective of one of the two women who blog for the massively popular tech site Gizmodo: Sometimes, it really sucks—and not just because that's what so many commenters tell women to do.
This sexist hiring video floating around the Internet helps explain why gamer culture has itself a sexual harassment problem.
While Reddit has proved itself as a great source of viral news and received deserved praise for its coverage of the Aurora shootings, a recent thread posited a question about where women fit in in the site.
With another early female Facebook employee refuting Facebook's sexist culture, The Atlantic Wire spoke with Boy Kings author Katherine Losse, who gave us a little clarification on her interpretation of life at Facebook as it related to women.
Following yesterday's bikini babe-whistling embarrassment, Google has taken a tiny—seriously teeny—step to make women feel more welcome in Silicon Valley by promising women's t-shirt sizes at future events and conferences.
While watching the Google keynote today, the Nexus 7 tablet demonstration reminded us why some women find Silicon Valley alienating.
In the wake of the controversy over the sexism in Girls Only! How to Survive Anything, we present this badass addendum to our previous compendium, "The Greatest Girl Characters of Young Adult Literature."
A very gross magazine spread featuring a crude Photoshop of conservative commentator S.E. Cupp in Hustler magazine has provided everyone with occasion to point out that you cannot say crude things about women, regardless of their politics.
Gloria Allred, a name we're accustomed to seeing in the news, has been in the news even more than usual the past few days.
What do Silicon Valley startups have in common with fraternities? A lot, it turns out.
We've enlisted the help of a former '60s-era ad exec to run down the factual inaccuracies and anachronisms of Mad Men.
Less than a week after calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" on the air, Rush Limbaugh ran his mouth again on Tuesday, calling investigative journalist Tracie McMillan a "babe", an "authorette" and, more broadly, one of "these single white women."
Now that over a dozen companies have bailed on Rush Limbaugh after he called Sandra Fluke a "slut" on air, a couple of new companies are swooping in to buy up that abandoned air time.
Rush Limbaugh's recent, awful attacks on Georgetown student Sandra Fluke, who had the audacity to testify about contraception at a hearing led by House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi last Thursday, have inspired calls for Limbaugh to apologize as well as at least one company to pull advertising from his radio show.
Betsy Rothstein's fake trend piece about female reporters using their sexy Twitter pictures for evil would be completely troubling if it weren't riddled with an undercurrent of Internet trolling and mired in the fact that she couldn't find any experts to agree with her.
On Monday, MSNBC's Morning Joe premiered a new promotion that has ladies in media crying sexism and Joe Scarborough scratching his head.
Conservatives aren't quite sure how to respond to sexism, even when it's really obvious, and even when it's against a woman on their side.
Fortune's 40 Under 40 has found and ranked the world's the hottest young stars and, keeping the trend of women being underrepresented in such ranking exercises, it's almost entirely dudes.
Ousting the CEO of a failing company isn't what makes the move anti-woman
But she says keep on tuning into Mad Men
One of the show's stars defends Steinem's allegations of sexism
The people behind "Got Milk" pull their ads over sexist claims
On Obama's visit to Puerto Rico and the real gay girls in Damascus
Trump's misogyny may be worse for his 2012 chances than birtherism
Critics thought the Valentine's Day stunt reflected surgery's "macho culture"
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