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Welcome to Feminism/Gender Watch,

Women don't just hold up half the sky. They constitute half of all that is under the sun and moon. And their subordination, in any manner at all, is, of course, completely unacceptable to all people, male or female, who are serious about justice and equity.

ZCom's Gender/Feminism Watch page seeks to present news, analysis, and vision bearing on the situation and activty of women to eliminate the subordination they have endured.

Please send any ideas you may have for other or additional content from our database you think ought to appear in content boxes on this page to sysop@zmag.org.

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Latest Fem/Gender

Barber: Burden of being a Black woman in the South

Percent of the total U.S. African-American population living in the...
Law: Women in Prison Speak Out

In federal prison in California, people stood in front of the television in shock as they learned about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' memo, which promises to intensify the war on drugs
Meadows-Fernandez: Toxic Masculinity

Negative remarks about the male romper trend can harm black male identity development
Germanos: Expanded Global Gag Rule

Trump Escalates Attack on Healthcare, Women
Clements: Fighting gun violence

Ending gun violence is a feminist issue and women can and must continue to lead this struggle
Meadows-Fernandez: The Oppressive History of the Birth Industry

Acknowledging the whiteness of the birth industry means coming to terms with this fact and finding a way to transform an anti-Black institution
Burns: A feminist revolution demands climate justice

Feminist leaders, particularly indigenous women and grassroots organisers, have to be at the frontlines of climate change decision-making
Menos Collective: Femicide Is A Collective Pact Among Sexist Men

We must denounce a judicial system that rushes to criminalize us for abortion, for protesting and defending ourselves, and is disinterested in enacting strategies to safeguard and protect us
Asher-Schapiro: Uber & Sexual Harassment

In 2012, shortly after Uber started operating in Los Angeles,...
Jena: Trolling of Women Journalists Threatens Free Press

Female journalists, bloggers and other media actors are disproportionally experiencing gender related threats, harassment and intimidation on the Internet
Benjamin: Women Beware

Saudi Arabia Charged with Shaping Global Standards for Women’s Equality
Gupta: Rojava-inspired women’s councils in Europe

Could this little-known system provide a way forward for real democracy – from the bottom up – in our failing neoliberal political systems?
Premkumar: Police Violence and Reproductive Health

If one lives in a community that is frequently policed, the accumulative effects of these interactions can have health consequences more insidious than those caused by actual physical violence
Jayaraman: On the Backs of Women

Most consumers do not know the extent of poverty, discrimination, and sexual harassment faced by millions of women in the restaurant industry
Penny: Are you a Trump man or a decent man?

Time to choose
Windham: Working-Class Feminism and the Resistance

Today's feminism has the power to change not just politics, but the nation's economic landscape, too
Podur: Women Rise Up Against Gender Violence

On March 11, survivors of violence against women and their allies and supporters held marches in six Caribbean countries
Sturgis: Defunding Planned Parenthood will hurt public health

Percent of Planned Parenthood's patients who access care through Medicaid and/or the Title X family planning program: 60
Featherstone: Women Strike Against Capital—and To Take Back Feminism

Feminist strikes and protests are certainly enjoying a resurgence, thanks to the sexist reality show star who is also our newly-elected president
Chen: This Is What Feminism Really Looks Like

Women of color, trans women, working women—the International Women’s Strike brought feminism of the 99 percent into the streets

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ZMag Fem/Gender

Windham: Working Class Feminism

Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
Podur: Women Rise Up

imagine when women in such a society decide that they are going to change this. Even some victims will oppose them—there is serious internalization of sexism as there is with racism.
Menos Collective: The International Women’s Strike

The October 19 strike was the first women’s strike in the history of Argentina and Latin America. A strike was called for one hour, in all possible spaces: workplaces, educational spaces, domestic spaces, neighborhood ones, etc. The following mobilization was truly enormous: more than 250,000 people in Buenos Aires and more marches all over the country
Cole: Trump’s Plan for Women

The Hill reports that the Trump budget may well slash Federal funding for the 25 programs that grew out of the Violence against Women Act.
Charleswell: Gentrification is a Feminist Issue: A Discussion of the intersection of Class, Race, Gender, and Housing

In the most simplistic terms, the feminization of poverty refers to the fact that women represent a disproportionate share of the world’s poor. Further, the feminization of poverty is not only a consequence of lack of income, but is also the result of the deprivation of opportunities and gender biases
Finley: The Rape Election

Although I generally applaud the notion of a national conversation...
Bergstein: Because of Sex

It is fair to say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 brought the United States into the 20th Century. That comprehensive law made it illegal to engage in racial, gender, and national origin discrimination in public accommodations--like hotels and restaurants--and employment. Yet, the law says very little about what exactly constitutes discrimination
A. Haught: The Long, Long Journey to Women’s Equality

Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.” Even with the possibility of a female. president, the battle for full equality still isn’t over.
Finley: Changing the Conversation About the “Woman Card”

The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity politics because she, well, actually discussed the fact that the U.S. still has much to improve in terms of gender equality.
: Argentine Women Call Out Machismo

The term “femicidio,” which encompasses the murder of women by domestic violence, in honor killings and in other categories of hate crime, has now entered our everyday language in Argentina. “The cause is our country’s macho culture,”

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Video Fem./Gender

Eisenstein: Race, Gender and Socialism

A discussion on race, gender, feminism, and socialism
Sarkeesian: Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival

Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
Solnit: The Santa Barbara Massacre & Viral Response to Misogynist Violence

"Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender"
Kirollos: Fighting Sexual Assault in Egypt

Interview with one of the founding members of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, a group that patrols the streets during protests and fights off men as they attempt to encircle and assault women
Ehrenreich: Smile or Die

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the...

Audio Fem./Gender

Armitstead: Rosa Luxemburg

In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth

Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
Folbre: The Socialist Feminist Imaginary

NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of...
Sienema: Mujeres Creando

This song was very difficult to write because I had...
Shalom: System Upgrades

If part of the Left’s agenda involves building a new...