Feminism through culture, policy and law.
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Feminism through culture, policy and law.
Women at work: Penalized for being pregnant
Women at work: Penalized for being pregnant
Firing someone because they’re pregnant is sex discrimination. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) was signed into law on October 31, 1978.
Women at work: Equal and fair pay
Women at work: Equal and fair pay
Most people treat equal pay and fair pay as interchangeable. They are not the same thing. Equal pay describes what the law requires, which is identical wages for substantially identical work performed by a man and a woman in the same workplace.
Women at work: The Crown Act and black women's hair at work
Women at work: The Crown Act and black women's hair at work
The Crown stands for Creates, a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.
Women at work: navigating discrimination
Women at work: navigating discrimination
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991
Intersectionality - when gender, race and class meet
Intersectionality - when gender, race and class meet
In 1976, five black women sued General Motors for discrimination. They had been denied jobs in a division that had never hired black women, though they had hired white women and black men.
The system of power has a map. Let's decode it.
The system of power has a map.Let's decode it
The intricacy of the matrix is that its architects deploy both systemic and interpersonal forms of oppression, that is, institutions and individuals, policy and behavior, law and language. They are all reinforcing the same hierarchy.
Society has always had something to say about women. Here, we say something back.
Said Differently is an analysis of feminism through law, policy, and culture, written for everyone who deserves to understand it. Because the frameworks exist to describe what women experience with precision and weight. They just aren’t widely known. That’s what this is for.
I created Said Differently because language matters. The words we use to describe what happens to women shape whether those experiences are taken seriously, redressed, or erased entirely. Imprecise language obscures harm. The right language makes it undeniable.
I’m a student at Harvard University and Dartmouth, and I’ve spent most of my life moving between continents, cultures, and contexts. This means I’ve spent most of my life watching the same things happen to women, seeing them described differently depending on where you are, and dismissed regardless. That experience is what brought me to feminist theory, and what keeps me here.
Author: Ashleigh Mazivisa