There's a saying that goes "we will know when we have achieved gender equality when an incompetent woman is promoted in a position of power", and I must say to my fellow white ladies, I think we have made it.

This is not the occasion for celebration I thought it would be.
#feminism #GenderEquality

Finnish festival hopes to shorten bathroom queues by offering women's urinals

The Provinssi Festival in Seinäjoki is the first in Finland to have urinals for women.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20160530

Sorry to be a broken record about this, but #gender based #censorship makes NO SENSE (except "because #patriarchy"). It doesn't happen often, but what keeps me going in my seemingly-fruitless endeavor to raise awareness about and hopefully change the bs status quo of "female - looking nipples" getting banned online and in public as "sexually explicit nudity" but not "male-looking nipples" is when someone comments to me "you know, I never really thought about topless inequality before, but now that you've pointed it out, you're right--it IS sexist and doesn't make sense!"

A different perspective of today’s skirt and heels.

How the past means more powerful female politicians today https://www.byteseu.com/953566/ #AdventuresInIceland #FemalePoliticians #GenderEquality #Iceland #Politics #PowerfulWomen #Travel

Mehr #Geschlechtergerechtigkeit, mehr #Freiheit? Nicht unbedingt. Eine neue Studie der #unibern zeigt: In Ländern wie Schweden oder der Schweiz erleben Männer mehr Druck, den sozialen Status ihrer Geschlechtergruppe zu wahren – stärker als in weniger geschlechtergerechten Ländern: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmitteilungen/2025/medienmitteilungen_2025/hohe_geschlechtergerechtigkeit_fuehrt_fuer_maenner_zu_hohem_statusdruck/index_ger.html
#GenderEquality

More equality, more freedom? Not always. A new #unibern study shows that in countries like Sweden and Switzerland, men feel more pressure to uphold their group’s status — compared to less gender-equal nations: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/men_face_more_social_status_pressure_when_gender_equality_is_high/index_eng.html.

#Women are natural slaves and should always obey #men. That's just logical:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/599

What #Aristotle really said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_views_on_women

NATO downplays climate and gender language to appease Trump – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/932706/ #ClimateChange #ClimateDiplomacy #DefenseBudgets #Department #DonaldTrump #environment #Europe #GenderEquality #Military #NATO #Security #UnitedStates #War

Belgium: Panel discussion on Media coverage of women in politics and its impact on democracy https://www.byteseu.com/920132/ #Belgium #eu #Europe #GenderEquality #journalists #politicians #RewritingTheStory

What’s in a Chinese name: scientists fight for identity when forced to use Latin alphabet https://www.byteseu.com/876739/ #BeihangUniversity #ChengGong #ChineseAuthors #ChineseLanguage #ChineseLanguageInScience #ChineseNames #ChineseNamesInScience #ChineseResearchers #GenderEquality #JiangsuNormalUniversity #nature #PetroChinaResearchInstitute #pinyin #PinyinNamesInScience #Science #ScienceNet #UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyBeijing #Wuhan #YuanBo #ZhangQifa

Reminder that Bible passages which have been weaponized against homosexuality using bad English translations, were actually about pedophilia. The bigots began to equate pedophilia with homosexuality, which is not accurate to other language translations of the Bible, nor the previous 2,000 years of Christian theology. This lie is completely in line with Conservative ideology, which is always claiming that "queers are targeting our children" and that "drag is pedophilia", and the existence of queer kids is used as proof of "grooming" instead of proof of natural diversity.

https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has-%E2%80%9Chomosexual%E2%80%9D-always-been-in-the-bible/

Note: This source is the United Methodist Church, a fundamental, traditionalist denomination which used to ban homosexuals from ministry, and only changed their stance last year (though this article is older than that, it has been a point of division in the church for a while). Just to show that this is not biased.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1908: Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (mostly women) launched a strike for higher wages, shorter hours and an end to child labor. They chose this date in commemoration of the 1857 strike. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike and the one in 1857.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.

Why does International Women’s Day still matter? Is it even needed?

My thoughts on why this day is as important as ever https://carasutra.com/2023/03/why-international-womens-day-still-matters-info-hub/

Celebrating#InternationalWomensDay2025

Thank you to the inspirational women in a range of fields sharing their career journey at our upcoming Postdoc Fair.

Thurs 13 March | Register by 11 March: https://goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-fair

Info-stalls #Equity&Diversity, #StopTheLeakyPipeline, #OpenScience and more. Talented Researchers, Academics, and Administrators from Göttingen and beyond share their expertise to support #ResearchCareers.Everyone welcome

Today, on #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate progress towards #GenderEquality at work!

For over 50 years, the #CJEU has helped shape fairer workplaces—ruling on equal pay, parental leave, and protection for pregnant employees.

Learn more https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_3287489/

Introducing our new #GenderEqualityChampions!

We proudly acknowledge the dedication of academic and research organisations driving institutional change for #GenderEquality in science.

Congratulations to this year's winners

The male backlash to female empowerment is a locally and globally destabilizing force and should be directly addressed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/02/28/world/australias-gender-equality-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #women039sissues #genderequality