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Women and Class

Damaging Dishonesty

July 26, 2021 by Betsy Leondar-Wright 1 Comment

I guess you could call me a liar.  Back when I had fundraising responsibilities at several small nonprofit organizations, I lied to foundations all the time.  I assumed, often correctly, that funders wanted to believe that their money would directly bring about specific program impacts, so I told them it would. That meant hiding some […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism in Diversity Work, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Classism in the Economy, Dismantlng Classism, Labor movement, Money, Women and Class Tagged With: low-wage jobs

Voices of the Working Class, Working Poor and Poor

March 22, 2021 by Class Action 1 Comment

Class Action’s Voices of the Working Class, Working Poor and Poor series seeks to raise the visibility of those most impacted by inequality and create access to their perspectives and experiences. Creating a Solidarity Alternative: The Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (CCDS) Ann Philbin, Executive Director of Class Action, speaks with Luz Zambrano, Liliana Avendaño, […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Coops, Gender Class Intersections, Women and Class, Your Stories

Roseanne: A Working-Class (S)hero Returns

March 27, 2018 by Souri Somphanith Leave a Comment

The Roseanne reboot promises to tackle love and politics. Pack your bags and hit the road, folks. On  March 27th we’re going back to Lanford. The return of the hit 80s/90s sitcom Roseanne is the latest in a wave of nostalgic revivals hoping to recapture our hearts. And while other reboots have stirred up controversy, […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Class Themes in Film and Fiction, Pop Culture Classism, Race and Class, Women and Class Tagged With: class and pop culture, class cultures, low-wage jobs, race and class, stereotypes, working class

Social Class, Equality at Heart of International Women’s Day

March 8, 2018 by Class Action Leave a Comment

There are countless reasons that people around the world celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD). The day provides a focus and opportunity to celebrate women’s contributions to society, highlight our struggles for equity, point to the huge pay and educational discrepancies suffered by women and girls, and thank women for fostering the well-being of families and communities. But, many people are […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in the Economy, Women and Class Tagged With: classism, social movements, speaking up

American Exceptionalism Leaves International Women’s Day Blank

March 8, 2018 by Aimee Loiselle Leave a Comment

When searching for information about International Women’s Day (IWD) 2018, I knew I would not find details from the U.S. government. It doesn’t coordinate IWD events or recognize it as an official holiday, unlike 26 nations that include Afghanistan, Cuba, Laos, Russia and Uganda. However, I was surprised when I had to make a concerted […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Class cultures, Gender Class Intersections, Women and Class Tagged With: social movements, speaking up, working class

Classism in Literature: Poor Boy Syndrome

March 2, 2017 by Julia Gerhardt 2 Comments

In the song “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddy Mercury sings, “I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy.” He’s right, you don’t. Yet, it seems that in the literary world, poor boys are the ones who receive all the sympathy. It did not dawn on me until I took the class Working Class Women’s Literature at Goucher […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class in Literature, Women and Class Tagged With: academia, classism, poverty, sexism, stereotypes, working class

Surviving Rape and then
Surviving the Burden of Class Bias

April 29, 2016 by Class Action Leave a Comment

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Here Class Action’s Annie Hamilton writes about the benefit of not actually “seeing” rape survivors, so she and other people personing the telephone lines can be free of class and other bias as they support survivors.  On the rape crisis hotline, I cannot see who I am talking to on the other […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Women and Class Tagged With: blaming the victim, class and sexual assault, classism

Poor Little “Not-So-Rich” Girls

March 18, 2016 by Megan Marshall Leave a Comment

It wasn’t until I began to write about class from the perspective of the 19th century women about whom I’ve written two biographies that I realized how much issues of class lie at the heart of my attraction to these women. Class Action asked me to explore the constraints that even upper class white women […]

Filed Under: Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Gender Class Intersections, Women and Class Tagged With: class cultures, gender bias, privilege, race and class, racism, speaking up, women and class

Women “having it all”

January 6, 2015 by Tina Rodia 1 Comment

It seems not a day goes by when I’m not reading another headline arguing whether women can have it all, or, more accurately, why they can’t. In this week’s New York Times magazine, Jennifer Szalai’s “Had It All” does a fine job deconstructing the very origin of “having it all” as both a myth and […]

Filed Under: Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Women and Class Tagged With: women

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