http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/gender_discrimination_equality This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Gender Discrimination/Equality en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130010 On <em><em>Morning Joe</em></em>, Chris Matthews stated: "If you talk to people, older women, and I don't mean older than me, but maybe my age and older, and you talk to them, and they get really angry at me, of course. ... They usually have a hard time figuring out what the fact I was wrong on, but that's OK." But <em>Media Matters for America</em> has documented numerous "fact[s] [he] was wrong on." http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130010 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:54:19 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230010 On <em>MSNBC Live</em>, as host Alex Witt reported on a press conference held by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, on-screen text read: "GOP leaders criticize Dems for delaying vote on Fair Pay Act," falsely suggesting that Republicans wanted to pass the measure. At no point in the coverage of McConnell's press conference did Witt or MSNBC in its on-screen text explain that the Republicans planned to filibuster the bill. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804230010 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:05:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804210007 On<em> Your World</em>, author Marc Rudov described himself as a "feminist" and said, "I look at women as equal peers." But later that day, on <em><em>The O'Reilly Factor</em></em>, Rudov mocked a study finding that "[h]aving a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women" as "a flawed, anti-male, un-academic study that -- the kind you would expect from one of America's leading gyno-versities." He also asserted that if "the woman is complaining that the man doesn't work enough around the house," it may be because "she said 'I do' at the altar and 'I don't' in the bedroom." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804210007 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:11:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200804110007 On <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, while discussing the "reason that the beauty pageant industry is failing," author Marc Rudov asserted:"[T]here's no shortage of women who want to put themselves on parade and have men throw money at them." He later stated, "Girls just love to expose themselves." http://mediamatters.org/items/200804110007 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:49:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280012 Author Marc Rudov asserted on Fox News' <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em> that "[m]en are depressed, and it's their own fault, because men are allowing women to take over the world." He also told guest host Laura Ingraham: "I don't have a problem with women, Laura. I have a problem with little girls occupying adult female bodies. And any women who feel entitled to wining and dining and jewelry and free vacations are not adults." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803280012 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:49:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803120008 Discussing marital infidelity on <em>Today</em>, Laura Schlessinger said, "I hold women accountable for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need." Despite the fact that panelists later referred to Schlessinger's comments as "absurd" and "nonsense" and that Meredith Vieira said of Schlessinger's first appearance, "The women were hysterically upset with her," <em>Today</em> had Schlessinger return to the program twice more the same morning. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803120008 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:53:54 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070013 In an essay that appeared in <em>The Washington Post</em>'s Sunday Outlook section, Charlotte Allen claimed or suggested that women are the "weaker sex," the "stupid sex," the "dumber sex," and "inferior[]." To make her argument, Allen offered contradictions, factual inaccuracies, faulty logic, and "evidence" that does not, in fact, support the notion that women are "dumber." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070013 Fri, 7 Mar 2008 21:43:56 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030008 On <em>The O'Reilly Factor</em>, Rush Limbaugh said, referring to a photograph of Sen. Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali clothing, "I think that Michelle Obama is seething over the attacks that the Clintons have made against her husband with that photo with, you know, Obama looking like [Osama bin Laden's chief collaborator] Ayman [al-]Zawahiri, all of this talk about his middle name and so forth." In fact, Hillary Clinton has denied any knowledge of the photo's release and said, "[T]hat's not the kind of behavior that I condone or expect from the people working in my campaign." Limbaugh added that Mrs. Obama responded "with a womb-to-womb frontal attack on Hillary Clinton." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803030008 Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:51:21 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200803020002 Though <em>Washington Post </em>ombudsman Deborah Howell has stated that "[c]oncern about keeping women as newspaper readers has been an issue for many years" at the newspaper, the <em>Post</em> published an essay by Charlotte Allen in which she called women "kind of dim," suggested that women were not only "the weaker sex" but "the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial," and claimed that Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been "marred by every stereotypical flaw of the female sex." http://mediamatters.org/items/200803020002 Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:46:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280016 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough again defended Chris Matthews' controversial comments about Sen. Hillary Clinton, saying, "[W]hat Chris Matthews said is the same thing Maureen Dowd has been saying since 1998. ... Maybe he said it more bluntly, but to say, that's sexism?" Additionally, co-host Mika Brzezinski called criticism of MSNBC as sexist "unfair." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802280016 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:47:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802120005 After Bill O'Reilly mistakenly said, "Trust me now, [Fox News contributor Kirsten] Powers," while talking to Fox News contributor Margaret Hoover, Hoover replied, "Get my name straight, will you? I'm Hoover." O'Reilly responded: "I know. There's a lot of blondes -- a lot of blondes in this operation. ... So if once in a while I get you mixed up -- I got [Fox News contributor Lis] Wiehl and [Fox News anchor Megyn] Kelly coming up," and adding, "I need sunglasses in here." http://mediamatters.org/items/200802120005 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:16:22 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050008 On <em>Hardball</em>, Jill Zuckman asserted, "Senator McCain watched the Super Bowl in the bar of his hotel last night in Boston," adding, "[A]nybody could come up and talk to him." Chris Matthews replied, "Now, we don't ask if that's fake, do we? We ask if Hillary's crying for real. But we don't say, 'Hey, wait a minute. He went in the bar? Wasn't he a little tired? Wouldn't he have rather gone to bed?' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200802050008 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:38:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110017 January 9 was not the first time Chris Matthews has suggested that Hillary Clinton owes her political career to her husband's adultery. In 1999, when Clinton was running for the Senate for the first time, Matthews said: "I mean, it's hilarious, but isn't that her main claim, that she's the victim of the -- of the -- of the year?" later adding, "Now it's an election ca -- it's a bumper sticker. 'My husband cheated on me, make me senator.' " http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110017 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:51:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711210003 On Fox News' <em>Your World</em>, author Marc Rudov claimed that "women are equal-opportunity domestic abusers" and asserted that the websites for the Department of Health &amp; Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention feature statistics "showing women and men commit domestic violence equally." In fact, the CDC reports that "[e]ach year, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner related physical assaults and rapes" while "[m]en are the victims of about 2.9 million intimate partner related physical assaults." http://mediamatters.org/items/200711210003 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:16:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200710040011 Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:34:19 EST