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'Iron Man 3' originally had a different villain until execs said a female toy...
Hollywood's ongoing sexism problem, particularly in the comics world, has been brought back into the spotlight again after comments from "Iron Man 3" director, Shane Black. The screenwriter behind...
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'Game of Thrones' star Kit Harington says 'sexism toward men' exists in...
"Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington says that women aren't the only victims of sexism in Hollywood."I think there is a double standard," the British actor told the UK's Sunday Times. "If you said to a...
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British media brilliantly blasts gender stereotypes by scrutinizing First...
The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister, and she's a woman.When women are celebrities, people tend to care a lot about their clothes. British media site Metro UK had fun reversing that...
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The 5 worst reasons for not including women in video games
Are women "too hard to animate?"That's the question at the heart of Feminist Frequency's latest video in the "Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games" series, a collection of YouTube videos that analyzes...
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Stop calling Team USA's gymnasts 'sweethearts' — they're champions
People magazine's latest edition features Team USA's star gymnasts Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian, and Laurie Hernandez. It celebrates their team gold medal (and utter...
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Helen Mirren shoots back at 'horrible' sexist questions in an unearthed '70s...
In an interview with The Guardian earlier this year, Helen Mirren discussed how the 1970s were a grotesquely sexist time in acting and elsewhere, calling the decade "horrible" and "worse than the 1940s...
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Why so many female CEOs have blonde hair
It’s rare for a woman to make it to the very top of a large corporation these days, and it’s rare for an adult human to have blond hair. But blond women are far more likely to end up a chief executive...
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A new game for PlayStation VR that glorifies 'sexual assault' is scheduled to...
A virtual reality version of a video game scheduled to be released in Japan is really shocking the US gaming and tech press.Game publisher Koei Tecmo Games is set to release a game for Sony's...
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Racist and sexist jokes aren't harmless — they can actually perpetuate...
Q: Why did the woman cross the road?A: Who cares! What the hell is she doing out of the kitchen?Q: Why hasn’t NASA sent a woman to the moon?A: It doesn’t need cleaning yet!These two jokes represent...
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A fictional sexist app on HBO's show 'Silicon Valley' turned out to be a real...
Some of the most outrageous bits of satire in HBO's hit comedy "Silicon Valley" is the waterfall of sexist and misogynist comments that fall from the character's mouths.But it turns out, when it comes...
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A handful of Apple employees leaked some emails about alleged sexism inside...
Apple has found itself at the centre of a discussion about workplace sexism after dozens of employee emails were leaked, alleging that the company can have a "toxic" and sexist work environment.Mic...
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A TV meteorologist got a sexist letter from a viewer, and she called him out...
Iowa meteorologist Jeriann Ritter is used to getting public feedback — that's part of her job. But a nasty, sexist letter she received in the mail this week was a bit more intense than usual. The...
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Italy's health minister is under fire for hosting 'Fertility Day' to persuade...
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin came under renewed fire on Thursday as she hosted a "Fertility Day" conference aimed at persuading couples to have more children.An...
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Hollywood doesn’t like women over 30 — and more findings on gender from a...
Hollywood is predictably sexist, according to a new analysis of stars through history.Clemson economists Robert Fleck and Andrew Hanssen analyzed gender and age for Hollywood roles going back to 1920...
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Melinda Gates: Women started leaving the tech industry when 'the gaming...
After years of traveling the world working to improve the lives of impoverished women overseas, Melinda Gates looked around the US and decided some work needed to be done here at home.So she's setting...
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Donald Trump demeaned women with sexist language as host of 'The Apprentice,'...
NEW YORK — In his years as a reality TV boss on "The Apprentice," Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the...
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When it comes to matters of gender diversity in tech, Microsoft has had a rocky few years: CEO Satya Nadella got in trouble for suggesting that women shouldn't ask for raises; an official Xbox party...
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Tech leaders like Elon Musk barely follow any women on Twitter
Confusing the real world with the slice of reality reflected by one’s social media accounts is a mistake political reporters and partisans make every day. Algorithms and selection bias have conspired...
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8 out of 10 software engineering jobs are still going to men ... and that's a...
Silicon Valley is well aware that it has a women-in-tech problem. The vast majority of employees at most tech companies, especially the programmers, are men.Tech companies love to ponder the lack of...
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An MIT researcher created a Donald Trump Twitter bot that’s now ‘running for...
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are about to face off in the final presidential debate, but one more candidate still wants to enter the race.Crude, nonsensical, and nonhuman, his name is DeepDrumpf....
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