Presidential Election Polls Marginalize Women

A few election cycles back, a close relative of mine received a call from a prominent polling firm. When she answered the phone, the pollster on the other end of the line introduced himself and then asked, "Is the man of the house at home?". My relative said no, at which point the pollster thanked her for her time...and …

News Release: Christian Terrorists Murder Women’s Health Advocate in Apartheid State

"These people aren't pro-life, they're killing DOCTORS! What kinda 'pro-life' is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets: anti-woman! They don't …

Reverse Bradley Effect Caused by Rendering Women Invisible

"I just haven't seen good evidence that [race] is a factor in polling these days." ~Scott Keeter, director of survey research for the Pew Research Center “The level of inaccuracy of the polls in the primaries was unprecedented.” ~Anthony Greenwald, psychologist and (overcited) co-inventor of the Reverse-Bradley Effect “This distortion is interesting because poll numbers …

Whitewashing Anti-Feminism in the Housing Crisis

"[The Option ARMS home mortgage loan] was first created in 1970. The Emergency Home Finance Act was one answer to the growing social and racial unrest in the nation's cities: home ownership as a means to stop angry Americans from burning down their neighborhoods." ~Richard Bove on NPR Morning Edition (8/28/2008) [emphasis added], carefully overlooking …

Erasing Women from US Politics

"It was right after Michelle Obama's speech, in which the talented, intimidatingly intelligent Mrs. Obama tried to convince the country that she was as mundane as the rest of us, *laughter* and therefore no threat to us." ~Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, NPR, August 30, 2008 (Emphasis added) Last week, NOW's Below The Belt column did …