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Christina Wolbrecht
@C_Wolbrecht
Political scientist
@NotreDame
. Books: A Century of Votes for Women, Counting Women's Ballots, The Politics of Women's Rights. Opinions mine. She/her.
South Bend, INchristinawolbrecht.comJoined January 2012
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My teen just explained she got up and did her writing early so it didn’t hang over her head all day, and I don’t need to be called out like this in my own house.
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Few people did more EVER to advance the equality of women than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The series of cases she argued in the 1970s transformed the constitutional basis for sex equality. There is literally no woman in this country whose life was not improved by RBG's life.
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The word "sex" was indeed introduced into Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by Howard Smith (D, VA), a segregationist. Smith would have been happy to see the bill sunk, but the story is a bit more complicated. THREAD 1/
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A reminder that the word "sex" was inserted into Title VII by a segregationist Democrat to try and kill the Civil Rights Act. One of the great self-owns of American legislative history. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
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My insurance billed me for an elective abortion when what I had was a D&C following a miscarriage. This is not hypothetical.
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If abortion becomes illegal, every miscarriage will be suspect. I was devastated when the doctor told me I was miscarrying. I can’t imagine how much more traumatizing it would have been if I then had to justify my miscarriage to the cops. 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage
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Excellent news! Notre Dame will require all students – undergraduate, graduate, and professional – to be fully vaccinated as a condition of enrollment for the 2021–22 academic year.
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Our department admin just announced via email that there are Krispy Kremes in our department office. How long do I, a serious senior scholar, have to wait before sprinting down the hall?
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Nobody is expectd to walk around with their own toilet paper. Why tampons and pads aren't in every public bathroom--including and ESPECIALLY SCHOOLS--I just cannot understand. (Actually, I can understand, and it rhymes with bisogyny).
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Chasten Glezman Buttigieg
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Things on my timeline that have been described as "woke" today: school lunches, Michelangelo, and tampons. Politics should make life easier, not harder. You can't expect students to "focus on the basics" when their basic needs aren't being met. huffpost.com/entry/idaho-re
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I don’t understand how we, as a society, are not doing lavish cover stories, creating memorials, and otherwise celebrating the scientists and science that is saving millions upon millions of lives. Instead we’re interviewing vaccine resisters…
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Just finished reading the files for our job, and all of us with PhDs more than 20 years past should retire and let these impressive younger people take over the discipline.
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...in a hotel room and founded the National Organization for Women. To see this provision used today to insure employment rights for the LGBTQ community demonstrates the truth of Fannie Lou Hamer's words: Nobody's free until everybody's free. fin/
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Here it is, 2020, and no one has solved the problem of the clothes you’ve worn just enough to not want to put back in the drawer/closet, but not enough to wash yet. There should be a German name for this sort of extra closet & you should be able to buy them unassembled at IKEA.
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Surprised this hasn’t gotten more attention. A *national* GI Bill for frontline workers (Whitmer includes medical, grocery, childcare) seems like a brilliant way to help the economy recover & flourish. Thoughts?
mlive.com
Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
The program would allow participants to earn a technical certificate, associate degree or even a bachelor’s degree, according to Whitmer.
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The most embarrassing thing about my Google search record is how often I search for the correct spelling of pretty basic words. For example, I searched for "embarrassing" in order to write this Tweet.
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The great
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already said this but I remain angry about how "replacements for women's free labor" are framed here as "nonessential." On-line shopping and subscription boxes are replacements for the time women used to have to shop for the family. 1/3
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USA TODAY
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The average adult in the USA spends $1,497 a month on nonessential items. All told, that's roughly $18,000 a year on things we can all do without. bit.ly/2vIbNZZ
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FB reminded that it’s the 4th anniversary of my only viral tweet thread, but I missed this response the first time around, and now my kids respect and admire me for the first time ever.
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I am violating my "never talk about students" rule to laugh with you all about the student eval comments, one right after the other: Too much discussion took away time from lecture Needs more discussion
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This thing where it's so important to ensure no one "undeserving" receives a benefit that we deny the benefit to lots and lots of people who are deserving? And the fact that we're obsessed with deservingness at all? Not a fan.
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Departments! Panelists are advising students to get credit cards for when they have to pay for their own job market travel and get reimbursed months later. Don’t make candidates do this. DO BETTER.
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Standing room only for this #MPSA2003 roundtable on Preparing for the Academic Job Market. Great perspectives from a range of types of institutions.
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Thinking a lot today about how much work women put into meeting conventional beauty standards without looking sexual/sexy when they are in the workplace, including Zoom calls.
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The addition of "sex" to the 1964 CRA is arguably the most important legislative achievement for women's equality in the 20th century, and now an achievement for gay and trans rights as well. Yes, introduced by a segregationist but... 6/
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BECAUSE women's rights advocates (the National Women's Party, founded by suffragist Alice Paul in the 1920s) had laid the groundwork for DECADES and BECAUSE women members of Congress were there to shepherd it through the long legislative process. 7/
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In all the drama, I feel like we’re losing sight of the fact that it’s very likely we’re going to have our first ever Black, Indian-American woman vice-president next year. WORK!
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TFW it’s been a long week but a beloved college professor you haven’t talked to in more than two decades sees your name in the NYT and sends you a lovely, lovely email about how proud she is of you.
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