Monday, October 6, 2008

"Why Women Earn Less Than Men" from TIME

Time just published an article that discusses gender discrimination in terms of using Transgender people's experiences to explore gender discrimination.

Check it out.

While the article is riddled with assumptions and stereotypes ("Which force is greater: women's choices of men's discrimination", "Women raise children and take more time off from work", etc.) I am pleased to see the connection with gender exploration and transgender issues. This article doesn't create an otherness for Transgender issues, and I appreciate that, although I don't know that it gives enough levity to the complexity of transitioning and how that could affect or intensify how the people in the study experience their own gender.

More on this later too.

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