Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

CFP: It’s a Man’s World: Revealing and Addressing Hidden Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy

American Tax Policy Institute Research Roundtable and Symposium It’s a Man’s World: Revealing and Addressing Hidden Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy Expressions of interest due March 31, 2024 Program October 17-18, 2024, Washington DC The American Tax Policy Institute is pleased … Continue reading

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Two Law Profs Named to Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s Committee of Scholars

Congratulations to Nadia Ahmad (Barry) and Mary Ziegler (UC Davis). Full announcement here.

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What is a “Menstrual Discharge Collection Device”?

Laura Strausfeld of Period Law explains the term here, and why it matters in the fight to eliminate the sales tax on menstrual products.

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New Book Announcement: Women, Their Lives, and the Law — Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty

This news from Hart Publishing: Women, Their Lives, and the Law Essays in Honour of Rosemary Auchmuty Edited by Victoria Barnes, Nora Honkala and Sally Wheeler This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of … Continue reading

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CFP: Feminist Approaches to State and Governance

December 15-16, 2023, Emory University School of Law, Hybrid Workshop This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLT).  During that time, we have held workshops, hosted visitors, and sought to encourage and facilitate feminist … Continue reading

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Law Professor Social Media Census

Over at the Faculty Lounge, I’ve posted my semi-regular call for corrections and new additions to the Law Professor Twitter Social Media Census. Head over to the Lounge (here) to check your info or add yourself for the first time.

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@VHC Initiative Seeks Postdoctoral Fellow

The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative at Emory University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a two-year period. Candidates with a background or interest in jurisprudence, critical theory, philosophy, or political science, as well as vulnerability theory are encouraged … Continue reading

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Stolzenberg Wins 2023 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law

Emily Stolzenberg (Villanova) has won the 2023 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law for her paper Nonconsensual Family Obligations, 48 BYU L. Rev. 625 (2022).  The press release is here. Here is the paper’s abstract: Even … Continue reading

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CFP: Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award @HaubLawatPace

Bumping to the front in light of the 7/1 deadline. Women, Gender & the Law Emerging Scholar Award: Call for Submissions The Elisabeth Haub School of Law is pleased to announce the competition for its annual Women, Gender & the … Continue reading

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Can Chat GPT Learn to Write Like Me?

Apparently yes, according to this how-to from Forbes. The era of the good written deep-fake is already here!

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Make No Mistake About the Extensive Anti-Abortion Agenda

The anti-abortion agenda is aiming for nothing less than full legal personhood from the moment of conception, as laid out in this essay in the National Review.

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An Argument in Favor of Menstrual Leave in India

Bhaghamma G (Mysore) and Prof. (Dr.) Ramesh (Mysore) have posted to SSRN their article Addressing Menstrual Stigma: The Case for Implementing Menstrual Leave as a Legal Provision in India, 5 Indian J. of L. & Legal Research __ (2023). Here … Continue reading

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Bank of America Report on Menopause in the Workplace

Bank of America has issued a first-of-its-kind (in the U.S., at least) report, Break Through the Stigma: Menopause in the Workplace. It contains lots of good information about the impacts of menopause on the workforce. Here are the report’s recommendations … Continue reading

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Virtual Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series–June 28 & Aug 2

2023 VIRTUAL SUMMER FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY SERIES Looking Back/Looking Forward: The Significance of Feminist Legal Theory June 28, 2023 and August 2, 2023 Pre-registration (here) required Zoom link to be provided 1 day prior to event Overview This summer, the … Continue reading

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Barbara Bader Aldave, 1938-2023

From the University of Oregon, here: Barbara Bader Aldave passed on May 23, 2023, at the age of 84, in Eugene, Oregon. Born December 28, 1938, Aldave earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Stanford University before earning her law … Continue reading

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Call for Proposals for 2024 AALS WILE Main Program: Obstacles to Gender Equality in the Legal Academy

Call for Proposals for 2024 AALS WILE Main Program:    “Obstacles to Gender Equality in the Legal Academy”   Panel Description:   Despite the progress made in recent years, gender inequality remains a pervasive issue in the legal profession, particularly in … Continue reading

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Shatzman on “The Clerkships Whisper Network”

Aliza Shatzman (Legal Accountability Project) has published “The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How to Fix It”, in the Colum. L. Rev.Forum. Here is the opening paragraph (citations and links omitted): You want to clerk? … Continue reading

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Spindelman on “The New Intersectional and Anti-Racist LGBTQIA Politics: Some Thoughts on the Path Ahead”

Marc Spindelman (Ohio State) has posted to SSRN his essay The New Intersectional and Anti-Racist LGBTQIA Politics: Some Thoughts on the Path Ahead. Here is the abstract: This essay, originally presented as a talk at the Washington University School of … Continue reading

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USF Seeks Legal Writing Faculty

The School of Law at the University of San Francisco is seeking a full-time non-tenure track Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis Professor for the upcoming academic year. The faculty member guides first-year law students through their first foray into legal … Continue reading

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Politics Not From Any Dictionary: Theorizing (and Living) a Trans-Welcoming Feminist Movement

Over at Signs is the most recent Feminist Frictions piece: Exploring Transgender Law and Politics by Catharine A. MacKinnon, with Finn Mackay, Mischa Schuman, Sandra Fredman, and Ruth Chang. It contains some very important insights from the authors, especially Professor … Continue reading

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Who Benefits from Tampon Tax Repeal? Research Suggests It’s Not Customers

This article in Reuters has some fascinating coverage of emerging research on who benefits from tampon tax repeal. Here is an excerpt: “People are using tea towels, T-shirts, socks, toilet paper,” said Tina Leslie, founder of Freedom4Girls, one of several … Continue reading

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Which Countries Have Scrapped the Tampon Tax?

Writing for Reuters, author Diana Baptista has a nice summary here. An excerpt: Since Kenya became the first country to scrap VAT on sanitary pads and tampons in 2004, at least 17 countries have followed suit, according to research by … Continue reading

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Catharine A. MacKinnon Receives American Philosophical Society’s Henry J. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence

Many people will have read the good news at Brian Leiter’s blog (here) announcing the recent election of three law professors to the American Philosophical Society: James Forman (Yale), Catharine MacKinnon (Michigan/Harvard), and Dorothy Roberts (Penn). In further good news, … Continue reading

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CFP: Fifth Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

Call for Proposals for the Fifth Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum November 10-11, 2023 – Boston University School of Law Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law in 2017, at UC Davis … Continue reading

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Women’s Health Research is Underfunded

The publication Nature has some informative graphics here.

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Miami Faculty Hiring Announcement 2024-2025

The University of Miami School of Law seeks several entry-level and lateral candidates (Tenure-Track or Tenured) to join our intellectual community beginning in the 2024-25 academic year. We welcome applications from outstanding scholars in any area of focus who will … Continue reading

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The Macroeconomic Cost of Menopause? $1.8 bn in the US Alone

There is a new study from the Mayo Clinic, here: Impact of Menopause Symptoms on Women in the Workplace. The NY Times has a nice write-up here (paywall; sorry): Menopause costs American women an estimated $1.8 billion in lost working time … Continue reading

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U San Francisco Seeks Visitors

The University of San Francisco School of Law is seeking applicants for a visiting professor in Criminal Law for the 2023-2024 academic year. The Visitor may also have the opportunity to teach an elective/seminar, if the schedule permits, as part … Continue reading

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Gender-Based Price Discrimination in Germany

For anyone doing comparative anti-discrimination work, a fact sheet (here) prepared by Iris an der Heiden and Maria Wersig and published by the German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agencyprovides insight into gender-based price discrimination. Here is a summary: The survey systematically examines … Continue reading

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20% Discount On all US Feminist Judgments Books

Cambridge University Press is offering a 20% discount on all titles in the US Feminist Judgments Series. Use the code Fem23 at Cambridge.org.  Here are all the published titles in the series: Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States … Continue reading

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Yale Journal of Law & Feminism Symposium – Meeting the Moment: Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures

The Yale Journal of Law & Feminism invites you to register for our symposium: Meeting the Moment: Legal Frameworks for Feminist Futures. This event will be held on Friday, March 31—the last day of Women’s History Month—at Yale Law School from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. … Continue reading

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@MarcSpindelman on Dobbs & State-Level Constitutional Amendments

Marc Spindelman (OSU) has posted to SSRN a version of his essay Countering Dobbs: A Sex Equality Approach by States Could Protect Abortion Rights, and then Some, published earlier this month in the American Prospect (Feb. 21, 2023), here. Here … Continue reading

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Is Testosterone the New Frontier of Menopause Treatment?

Depends on who you ask.  Over in the UK, television presenter Davina McCall has been touting its benefits to her. The London Mail has some coverage in an article here. Some excerpts: Topping up testosterone levels can transform a woman’s … Continue reading

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On the Origins of the Term “Cis Gender”

Over at HuffPo, Dana Dufosse writes, “I Coined The Term ‘Cisgender’ 29 Years Ago. Here’s What This Controversial Word Really Means.” I coined the term “cisgender” in 1994. Nearly three decades later, the word has had ramifications I never dreamed … Continue reading

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Breanne Fahs on What “Radical Feminism” Really Means

Breanne Fahs (Women and Gender Studies, ASU) has a smart essay over at Signs (here) called The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today. Here is an excerpt: Though in some ways short-lived, and certainly not without its limitations, second-wave radical … Continue reading

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Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center Call for 2023-24 Research Associates

From the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center: Are you a feminist thinker, writer, artist, scholar, or activist seeking interdisciplinary community to help build your work? Are you local to the Five Colleges or Western Massachusetts and trying to carve … Continue reading

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Symposium 2/24—The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind But Not Racially Neutral

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Boso on “Religious Liberty, Discriminatory Intent, and the Status Quo Constitution”

Luke Boso (U San Francisco) has posted to SSRN his working paper, Religious Liberty, Discriminatory Intent, and the Status Quo Constitution. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court shocked the world at the end of its 2021-22 term by issuing … Continue reading

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Advice from Gender & Law Journal Editors: Tips for Prospective Authors—Free Webinar Sponsored by @usfemjudgments

Advice from Gender & Law Journal Editors: Tips for Prospective Authors Live Zoom Webinar Sponsored by the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project January 20, 2023 2-3 pm Eastern/11am-12n Pacific advance registration required (here; free) Specialty law journals are important outlets for … Continue reading

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States Where Schools Are Required to Provide Menstrual Products

There’s an interactive map over here at Aunt Flo. Some state legislation is more (or less) comprehensive. And in related news, USA Today reports here that the Department of Education is considering making menstrual product provision part of schools’ Title … Continue reading

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How Much Would It Cost to Put “Free” Tampons and Pads in All School Bathrooms in the US? $60 Million a Year

I have previously blogged here, here, and here with speculation about how much it costs for schools to provide “free” menstrual products in bathrooms. Based on actual data from the Cambridge (MA) Public Schools, the figure appears to be approximately … Continue reading

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The Time Students for Life America Got Punk’d by Two Yale Undergrads

A few weeks ago, two Yale undergrads, Zoe Larkin and Ella Attell, interviewed Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life America, Borat-style. Their spoof video (embedded above) is a funny-not-funny commentary on the absurd rhetoric deployed by anti-abortionist activists (Hawkins … Continue reading

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Who Benefits from #TamponTax Repeal? In Germany, Consumers Do

A UK study suggests that consumers there did not benefit from repeal of the tampon tax (see here).  A new study out of Germany suggests contrary results in that country. Here is the abstract of VAT Pass-Through: The Case of … Continue reading

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The Gender Wealth Gap in Retirement Savings: A German Case Study

Carla Cardova (Pomona College), Markus Grabka (German Institute for Economic Research — DIW Berlin) & Eva Sierminska (LISER; DIW Berlin) have posted to SSRN their working paper, Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap. Here is the abstract: We examine … Continue reading

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Did the Pandemic Disrupt Your Period?

You’re not alone. Here’s the abstract for Martina Anto-Ocrah et al., Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)–Related Stress and Menstrual Changes, Obstetrics & Gynecology (October 27, 2022; DOI 10.1097/AOG.0000000000005010). A total of 354 women of reproductive age across the United States completed … Continue reading

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Who Benefits From #Tampon Tax Repeal? Not Consumers, Says New Report

A copy of the report by the (UK) Tax Policy Associates is here. Some highlights: 5% VAT applied to tampons and other menstrual products until January 2021. Then, following the high-profile “tampon tax” campaign, it was abolished. Many expected that … Continue reading

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The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap @lenorepalladino @rooseveltinst

Lenore Palladino (Roosevelt Institute) has posted a working paper, The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap. Here is an excerpt: I find a Black–white ratio of 0.013 and a Hispanic–white ratio of 0.016 for total shareholder payments … Continue reading

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The Discourse of Tampon Tax Repeal

Proving that there is a Foucauldian approach to just about everything, Shu-Chien Chen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) has posted to SSRN Discourses in the Tampon Tax Campaign, 2022 Analize: Journal of Gender & Feminist Studies 114. Here is the abstract: The … Continue reading

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Australia Has a Majority-Female High Court: Why That Matters

Jayne Jagot was sworn in last week as the 56th justice of the High Court of Australia. She is the Court’s seventh woman appointed to the High Court, which now has a female majority.  See news reports here. Law professor … Continue reading

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“Tools for Tackling the Toxic Workplace” Panel at NYU Law 10/26/22

TOOLS FOR TACKLING THE TOXIC WORKPLACE:A Conversation with Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky Wednesday, October 26, 2022 7:00-9:00 p.m. EDT Furman Hall, Lester Pollock Colloquium245 Sullivan StreetNew York, NY 10012 Please join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and Lift Our Voices for a discussion … Continue reading

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