Facebook is letting job advertisers target only men
A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.
Media get the South all wrong, so ‘movement journalists’ are stepping in
Project South wants to tell stories of grassroots power in a way that avoids the stereotypes outsiders bring.
Media must stop asking youth activists to ‘save the world’
Why should it be the responsibility of teenagers to “save the world” in the first place?
Media play up protests, play down effect of US sanctions in Cuba
While giving the protests a great deal of coverage, the corporate press across the political spectrum consistently downplayed one of the primary causes of unrest: the increasingly punitive U.S. blockade.
Bill McKibben: Green New Deal is a chance to ‘remake not just a broken...
"...if we don’t get action really soon, if we let it stretch out, those are the decades that will finish the work of breaking the planet. It’s why the urgency of something like the Green New Deal is so crucial."
The war on women: The view from China
Today, however, rather than seeing women as a key driver of economic advancement, China’s leaders have been cracking down on the feminist movement. Leta Hong Fincher, a scholar on women in China, explains why.
Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.
Mother’s Day tears
The fierce prophetic vision of poor women...
Successful tool lending libraries force us to rethink what the public is willing to...
Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and devices and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.
Time to grow up: Ending divisions creating peace
It's time for humanity to come of age, to reject all that divides us, to unite and create a space in which peace and harmony can ring out across the world.