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The parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Homegoods has made improvements to their website, likely in response to Washington Initiative for Boys and Men highlighting clear gender bias on their site. The overall effect is to somewhat reduce the degree to which the corporation’s website conveys a preference for female employees and suppliers over male employees and suppliers.
This blog post is a guest contribution written by the executive director and general counsel of a nonprofit physicians’ organization based in Seattle, Washington. Summary: Doctors around Washington state are unnecessarily injuring boys’ uncircumcised penises … Read more
A Gender Policy Council That’s Sexist … and Racist? | OpinionOn 2/15/21 at 6:00 AM ESTBy Warren Farrell Every new president vows to heal the very divide his party and opponents have spent the last … Read more
More than three times more men committed suicide in Washington state between 2015 and 2019, the Centers for Disease Control’s most recent available data shows. The suicide gender disparity in Washington is consistent with the disparity in the country as a whole.
Jon Krakauer’s book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tilllman (2009) sheds light on Pat’s connections to Seattle and Washington state. Thus, we highlight this former NFL star and U.S. Army Ranger on this site.
The editorial relies on the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks the United States 46th in educational attainment. That sounds like a problem to be solved, but – upon closer investigation – it is not. Instead, that ranking is quite misleading.
If you are a woman who lives in Seattle, you have a commission, council, or advisory board looking out for your sex/gender’s interests at the city, county, state, and federal levels of government. As demonstrated … Read more