Christina Stolba has written an excellent 33-page summary of the overwhelming deficiencies of the most popular textbooks used for Women’s Studies courses in the United States. According to Stolba’s report,
Rather than offering young men and women exposure to knowledge, these texts foster a cynical knowingness about women’s status in society, one that consistently emphasizes […]
Category Archives: Independent Women's Forum
Independent Women’s Forum on the Inaccuracies in Women’s Studies Textbooks
April 1, 2002 – 1:00 am
Independent Women’s Forum Runs Provocative Ads in College Newspapers
May 21, 2001 – 12:00 am
The Independent Women’s Forum has recently begun running a provocative ad attacking campus feminism and women’s studies departments. The text of the ad debunks what the IWF calls “The Ten Most Common Feminist Myths.”
These myths include: One in four women in college has been the victim of rape or attempted rape; Women earn 75 […]
Judith Kleinfeld On the MIT Gender Discrimination Study
March 2, 2001 – 1:00 am
Judith Kleinfeld recently wrote a column for The Christian Science Monitor summarizing her views and the recent Independent Women’s Forum study of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sexual discrimination study.
MIT’s study claimed that the university had discriminated against female scientists, but on closer analysis the study was a political document devoid of any statistics […]
IWF Finally Brings Some Data to MIT Sex Discrimination Case
February 5, 2001 – 1:00 am
A little less than a year ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a report, A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT, that claimed there was institutionalized discrimination against women at MIT. The university followed up that report by increasing the salaries of female professors and took other actions […]