Posts tagged sexism
And Then There Were None.

It’s impossible to know how much misogyny played into Warren or Hillary’s campaigns; to quantify how much more or less successful these women could have been if their woman-ness was not a factor. Our disbelief and distrust in women runs too deep to be able to fully identify it. But I feel it. I feel it in every snake emoji, every conversation about Warren’s “viability,” every tweet accusing her of destroying the progressive wing of the party. Just because you can’t put numbers to it doesn’t mean its not true. It’s winking at me and sinking into my bones.

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Misogyny & How It Affects Nonprofit Salaries

I’ve been reading Winners Take All, the thought-provoking, occasionally maddening book by Anand Giridharadas about how the solutions to income inequality/racism/sexism/all the other -isms, have become dictated by wealthy people who earned their inordinate amount of money by building businesses that are deeply entrenched in all the systems that subvert the people that the wealthy people have now decided to help. I have a lot of thoughts about this book but for now I’m going to focus on one throwaway line about how, instead of fighting to change systems that reduce systemic oppression of people, people argue that people in the nonprofit world should be paid better to retain/attract well educated and/or experienced leaders.

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