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Coronavirus-Related News & Resources
- Today offered advice on visiting a hair salon right now.
- NPR pondered the future of remote work.
- Harvard Business Review gave advice on how to network during the pandemic.
- Insider looked at the consequences of missing out on small talk with strangers and chats with coworkers.
- For your quarantine-watching pleasure: Rolling Stone provided their picks for the best TV shows of 2020 so far.
In Other News…
- The Cut reported that Johnson & Johnson will stop selling skin-lightening creams, while The BBC shared that Unilever will rename its Fair & Lovely cream.
- The Guardian noted that a New Zealand supermarket chain has become the first in the world to use the word “period” to describe menstrual products.
- Elle listed 22 Black-owned skincare brands; also check out the new website Five Fifths, the largest online list of Black-owned restaurants and online businesses.
- Vox's The Goods explained how companies who hire new leaders to help with race might also be setting them up to fail.
- Gen published a piece from Leigh Stein about the end of the girlboss era.
- The New York Times reported that NASA will name its Washington, D.C., headquarters after Mary Jackson, its first Black woman engineer and one of the subjects of the film Hidden Figures.
- Marie Claire compiled tips to getting involved in local politics.
- Lifehacker recommended checking Chrome for extensions that contain malware.
- Your Laugh of the Week comes from The Belladonna, which brings you password recovery questions for women who kept their names after marriage.
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Abigail
Did anyone else not love the “end of the Girlboss era” article? While I appreciated some of her points, to me it felt like she was really railing against the idea that women might actually want to make money while promoting a product or company that simultaneously has mission-driven values. As long as you are actually living those values (which I get her point, a lot of these companies weren’t), what’s wrong with being unapologetic about wanting to make money, or a lot of money, at the same time? Until women can talk openly about money and about wanting to make money the wealth gap will persist…
Anonymous
A little, but at the same time I’m done with consumerism thinly disguised as community.
Same
Yes, I agree.
Lana Del Raygun
I disagree about the article itself but to your main point … maybe, I guess, but I don’t think we can close the pay gap just by being ambitious. We need more fundamental changes. A lot of the gender pay gap is really a motherhood penalty, and I think that will persist as long as we preserve the male-centric structures that make it hard to succeed as a mother. Like I don’t doubt that some of it is just prejudice, but some of it is also that promotions go to people who work absurd hours. That’s something we could change, but the #girlboss move is just to work those hours. It’s never going to benefit the women who can’t or won’t fit themselves into the inhumane system, so it’s not a win for women as a class.
Anonymous
I agree. I am tired of the trope that women can work, but only if they are in a helping profession. The choices where I grew up were teacher or nurse. The modern version is that the you have to have a social mission. I am personally rooting for the first generation of female NFL referees and the female sports agents who are killing it. They show we can do anything.
Anon
I’m not sure how I feel about companies not selling skin lightening creams. I agree that valuing lighter skin over darker skin is hugely problematic but if people with darker skin want to use such products, it doesn’t seem right for the rest of us to be making that decision for them. I agree the advertising for the companies should stop promoting lighter as better but I don’t see why the products can’t still be on the shelves for those that want them.
anonnn
I agree… I’m not sure where they draw the line between products meant for “brightening” like Vitamin C, products for dealing with hyperpigmentation (which is a greater concern for minorities), and products meant for “lightening” skin.
Definitely need to think about rebranding and changes in advertising/models used though.
Lobby-est
Loved the Belladonna story! Hahahaha!
Anonymous
+ 1. The monogram!