I am a Snoop Dogg fan. That doesn’t make me less of a feminist
When I first joined the women’s movement, in the late 1970s, I was sneered at for watching romcoms, for preferring dogs to cats, and – as time went on – refusing to go to Greenham Common. (I like a...
View ArticleWorking trip to Budapest (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) On January 28, the FIDE President during his working trip to Budapest visited the office of the Hungarian Chess Federation where he met with GM Judit...
View ArticleHarika’s mantra for women’s world chess championship: Go for gold
The year 2016 was wonderful for women’s sports in India. PV Sindhu secured silver in badminton during the 2016 Rio Olympics while Sakshi Malik won bronze in wrestling. In women’s chess, 2016 was a year...
View ArticleCreeps pretending to be feminists
You know the type: the guy whose bio advertises "feminist," who wears the t-shirt and the pink hat, is well-versed in feminist doctrine but rather too eager to harangue women about it rather than get...
View ArticleOxford Dictionaries accused of 'sexist' usage examples including 'rabid...
Oxford Dictionaries has agreed to review the language used in its definitions after coming under fire for sexism. The publisher, part of Oxford University Press, currently prints “a rabid feminist” as...
View ArticlePortrait of Judit Polgar in "The Telegraph"
Judit Polgar has retired from tournament chess but...
View ArticlePolgar routes Navara 6-2 in ČEZ Chess Trophy
That is not a picture of Judit Polgar with her badly...
View ArticleShrill voice of Oxford Dictionary shows grating gender bias
"She's a wild promiscuous good-time girl." Who, you ask. Never mind that: the real question is why. Specifically, why does the Oxford Dictionary have such a misogynistic reflex when it comes to sample...
View ArticlePolgar hits out at Short
British chess master Nigel Short has made a bad opening gambit by saying women are inferior at the game, says former Hungarian Grandmaster Judit Polgar, who has defeated the Briton eight times to...
View ArticleCiting neuroscience, a Grandmaster says men are better at chess. Smart move?
Chess master Carissa Yip, who at age 11 became the youngest female ever to defeat a grandmaster, plays a match at the chess club in Billerica, Mass. In a commentary for a chess magazine, British chess...
View ArticleAn interview with chess legend Judit Polgar
Judit Polgar was a chess prodigy and is the only woman who has ever made...
View ArticleBrussels Chess in Schools Conference (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) A Chess in Schools Conference, organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) took place in the European Parliament during the afternoon of 24 February. Speakers from a...
View ArticleYoung, male and feminist – if only there were more of them
Schools and universities have their share of students engaging in sexist and misogynistic behaviour. But there are also those who are standing up against it – and their numbers are growing...
View ArticleWomens brains not hard-wired for chess grandmaster Nigel Short
When Nigel Short, one of UK's greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993 the pair met as bitter rivals.But it appears the British grandmaster ......
View ArticleSuper-Grandmaster Koneru Humpy speaking
She turned twenty in March this year, and is, after...
View ArticleWorld Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2014 (World Chess Federation)
(Source: World Chess Federation) Only four months after the Chess Olympiad in Tromso where the greatest chess players of the world competed against each other it is already time to have a look at the...
View ArticleLeading female chess players slam Nigel Short over women no good at chess jibe
English chess grandmaster Nigel Short has landed himself in hot water and has been slammed by leading female chess players after claiming that people should gracefully accept the fact that women are...
View ArticleOf course women can play top-level chess How British Grandmaster Nigel Short...
For a top-ranked chess player with an enviable ability to think strategically, it was an uncharacteristically rash move. Nigel Short just claimed that men and women had differently wired ......
View Article23/11/2016 Judit Polgar discusses how she changed gender stereotypes playing...
(Source: UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) Date: 23 November 2016 Chess Grandmaster Judit Polgar signs on to be a Planet 50-50 Champion in support of UN...
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