Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism (38 page)
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Authors: Natasha Walter
Tags: #Social Science, #Ethnic Studies, #African American Studies, #Feminism & Feminist Theory
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BBC,
Secrets of the Sexes
, broadcast 17 July 2005
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Liz Jones, ‘Sarkozy’s Sirens: why are French politicians so much more glamorous than ours?’,
Daily Mail
, 12 March 2008
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Kristina Cooke, ‘Analysis: Germans focus on TV debate’, 2 August 2005, CNN, retrieved 2 November 2008 from
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/02/germany.cooke2/index.html
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Liz Jones, ‘Sarkozy’s Sirens’, op cit
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Hendrik Hertzberg, ‘Brouhaha’,
New Yorker
, 15 October 2007
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Zoe Williams, ‘It wouldn’t happen to a man’,
Guardian
, 16 January 2009
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Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold, ‘Nepotism and sexism in peer-review’,
Nature
, 387, (22 May 1997), 341–3
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For more evidence of continuing underrating of female academics, see this study which showed that a gender disparity remained for male and female scientists who had obtained prestigious fellowships: G Sonnert, G Holton, ‘Career patterns of women and men in the sciences: women encounter social obstacles and may pay penalties for a careful research style’,
American Scientist
, 84, 1 (1996), 63–71; another study showed that in economics women were ‘underplaced’ and women published more than men at the same academic level: Van W Kolpin and Larry D Singell, ‘The gender composition and scholarly performance of economics departments: a test for employment discrimination’,
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
, 49, 3 (April 1996), 408–23
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Figures from the Office of National Statistics, quoted in ‘Women are “put off” hi-tech jobs’, BBC News, 8 September 2005
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Emma de Vita, ‘Where have all the IT girls gone?’,
Management Today
, 1 February 2008, retrieved 1 April 2008 from
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/781020/where-girls-gone/
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Heilman, Block, Martell and Simon, ‘Has anything changed? Current characterisations of men, women and managers’,
Journal of Applied Psychology
, 74 (1989), 935–42, cited in Virginia Valian,
Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women
(Cambridge USA: MIT Press, 1998), p126
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Butler, Doré, Geis, ‘Nonverbal affect responses to male and female
leaders: implications for leadership evaluations’,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 58, 1 (1990), 48–59 cited in Virgina Valian,
Why So Slow?
op cit, pp130–1
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Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever,
Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
(Princeton University Press, 2003), pp1–2
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Quoted in Shankar Vedantam, ‘The truth about why women are paid less – even if they ask for more’,
Guardian
, 21 August 2007; citing Hannah Riley Bowles, Linda Babcock and Lei Lai: ‘Social incentives for gender differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations: sometimes it does hurt to ask’,
Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes
, 103, 1 (May 2007), 84–103
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Susan Pinker,
The Sexual Paradox
, op cit, p35
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Martin Newland, ‘Why women prefer talking to sex’,
Daily Mail
, 13 September 2006
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BBC,
Secrets of the Sexes
, broadcast 17 July 2005
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M E Lamb,
The Role of the Father in Child Development
(NY: Wiley, 1981), cited in Adrienne Burgess,
Fatherhood Reclaimed
(London: Random House, 1997), p94
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Mumsnet conversations, ‘Do you ever feel frustrated at being left to hold baby?’ (edited for ease of reading), retrieved 2 November 2008 from
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=relationships&threadid=612947-do-you-ever-feel-frustrated-at- being-left-to-hold#12489852
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Naomi Wolf,
Misconceptions
(London: Chatto and Windus, 2001), p204
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Viv Groskop, ‘Do good feminists bake cupcakes?’,
Guardian
, 22 August 2008
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Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
((2006), Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007), p340
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Nigella Lawson,
How to be a Domestic Goddess
(London: Chatto & Windus, 2000), pvii
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Rafael Behr, ‘Is being a good Dad ruining your career?’,
Observer
, 11 June 2006
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Lyn Craig and Pooja Sawrikar, ‘Work and family: how does the (gender) balance change as children grow?’,
Gender, Work and Organisation
16, 6 (2009), 684–709
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L Barclay and D Lupton, ‘The experiences of new fatherhood: a sociocultural analysis’,
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Same Difference: How Gender Myths are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs
(New York: Basic Books, 2004), p43
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M Thompson, L Vinter and V Young,
Dads and their Babies: Leave Arrangements in the First Year
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Twenty-first Century Dad
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More Time for Families
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D Smeaton,
Dads and their Babies, a Household Analysis
(Equal Opportunities Commission, 2006), cited in
21st Century Dad
(Equal Opportunities Commission, 2006), op cit
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Harry Phibbs, ‘As the father of a five-week-old daughter I say thanks but no thanks’,
Daily Mail
, 31 March 2009
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James Delingpole, ‘At last I’m allowed to be a man’,
Sunday Times
,3 September 2006
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Quentin Letts, ‘Modern men are not interested in paternity leave’,
Daily Mail
, 30 August 2006
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Jill Parkin, ‘Sorry Ms Harman, but your “family friendly” policies are no such thing’,
Daily Mail
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Battle of the Sexes
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Baxter, Maggie
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Beauty Myth, The
(Wolf)
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de Beauvoir, Simone
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Blears, Hazel
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Blue Peter
(TV)
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‘Bobbijo’
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Booth, Cherie
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Bratz: The Movie
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Break Up, The
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Female Brain, The
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Buchanan, Keisha
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Fatherhood Reclaimed
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Bushnell, Candace
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Californication
(TV)
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Cameron, Deborah
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Myth of Mars and Venus, The
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Celebrity Big Brother
(TV)
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Chadha, Gurinder
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Child Exploitation and Protection Centre
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Clubb, Natalie
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Cohen, Nick
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Cole, Cheryl
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Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
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Confessions of a Working Girl
(‘Miss S’)
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Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia [CAH]
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Connellan, Jennifer
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Corner, Jennie
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Correll, Shelley
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‘Courtney’
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