Feminism

A New Yorker piece on Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO and one of the most powerful women in business and technology, profiles her career and also outlines her perspective on women in the workplace (as well as criticisms of her view). Broadly, she thinks women get in their own way more than men get in their way, and that many problems would be solved by women being more assertive.

Another great TED talk. Johanna Blakely of the Norman Lear Center (a media-focused think tank at the University of Southern California) talks about how social media helps us "escape our demographic boxes" by making our age, income, and race harder to determine, while simultaneously offering more pointed information about our interests and likes. She goes on to talk about how women are the highest users of social media and what that could mean for the future.

http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_social_media_and_the_end_of_gen...

Truly tragic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html.

The pictures in the slideshow are especially graphic and harrowing, please be prepared before you look at them.

Here's an anti-rape campaign not based on telling women and girls how to protect themselves by constraining their right to be female at night, but on telling men not to rape. Check it out: http://www.mystrength.org/