SF News California State Senate Poised to Have a Female Majority for First Time Ever While election results are still pouring in, there are enough ‘women vs. women’ primary races that come December, the California state Senate is likely to be comprised of 53% women.
SF News All-Female UCSF Surgical Team Performs Heart Transplant Surgery, In Likely Historical First Some historic heart-related news on Valentine's Day, as UCSF has recorded the first heart transplant performed entirely by a team of women — a first for the school, and possibly the first in history.
Arts & Entertainment SF's 'First All-Female Rock Band' Ace Of Cups Reunites For New Album Sure, go ahead and laugh at those seventysomething silver-haired biddies recording rock music in the image above. Those seventysomething silver-haired biddies are the seminal Summer of Love musical act The Ace of Cups,
SF News Huge Gender Wage Gap Persists For Computer Programmers Women are paid less than men. This discrimination manifests across numerous professions, even when factors like experience and education are taken into account. However, a new study by Glassdoor confirms what many in
SF News Hillary Clinton Talks About Creating A 'Nice Warm Purple Space' Of Bipartisan Cooperation At Silicon Valley Conference Yesterday in Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton sat down on stage for an interview with Re/Code's Kara Swisher, who opened with the joke, "I was just interviewing President Obama and I'm looking forward
Arts & Entertainment Upskirt Oopsie: Magazine Cover On Silicon Valley Sexism Called Out For...Sexism This week's cover. Will post first thing in the morning. pic.twitter.com/UIgR97sHS9— jim impoco (@jimpoco) January 28, 2015 Alas, poor Newsweek. Once the Pepsi to Time's print newsweekly Coke, in recent
SF News Google Is Mostly White Males, Admits Google As the conversation continues about diversity in tech, Google has finally released data on the company's gender and ethnicity breakdown. The numbers, a Google exec freely admits, are "not where we want to
SF News Supe Chiu Calls Campos Out On Record Against Domestic Violence When the difficult topic of domestic violence victims came up last year in a vote, I stood with the victims while David Campos did not. [David Chiu, 2/13/14] As the battle
SF News Startup Bro Apologizes For San Francisco Rant Startup co-founder Peter Shih whose anti-San Francisco rant sparked an outcry that, among other things, resulted in these flyers strewn about town on Friday published an apology over the weekend. Shih's screed, if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why You Should Check Out The Very Important 'Great Female Chefs' Dinner It's no secret that the male-female ratio within the food industry is lopsided toward the XY chromosome. Not so much a secret as it is a shame, actually. Which is why SFChef's upcoming
Arts & Entertainment 2013 Rising Stars Announced: No Love For The Ladies, Again The San Francisco Chronicle’s Food and Wine staff selected five Rising Star Chefs was announced over the weekend “to find and highlight some of the Bay Area's freshest talent, those young chefs
Arts & Entertainment Police Release Sketch UC Santa Cruz Rapist Santa Cruz police released a sketch of a man who beat and raped a visiting 21-year-old woman visiting the UCSC campus on Sunday afternoon. According to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the suspect is
SF News Woman Raped, Beaten On UC Santa Cruz Campus A 21-year-old woman survived being raped and beaten while visiting the UCSC campus Sunday afternoon. The suspect, described as "a white man in his 30s with pale skin and a round-shaped face," attacked
SF News Have You Seen This Guy? Wanted For Attacking Women In The Mission San Francisco police are on the lookout for this mustached suspect, wanted in connection for two seemingly random attacks on women walking alone near 23rd Street in the Mission. The most recent incident
Arts & Entertainment What: Muni Contest To Name Tunnel-boring Machines After Historic Women Muni wants to name their tunnel-boring machines, and now is your chance to help name them! These state-of-the-art, 300-foot-long excavators will be named after historic San Francisco women. And because San Francisco is
SF News Suspect Sketch Released In Violent Mission Rape Attempt San Francisco Police have released a suspect sketch of the man who violently attacked and allegedly attempted to rape a woman who was walking on 23rd Street near Church Street around 2:40
SF News Woman Violently Assaulted During Possible Rape Attempt In The Mission A personal account of a violent assault and possible rape attempt in the Mission has been making the rounds on neighborhood blogs, emails and Facebook today. The account, written by Mission resident "Amy,
Arts & Entertainment Miranda July, Lena Dunham, Miss Ross' Daughter Film Pro-Woman 'You Don't Own Me' PSA A bushel of accomplished and amazing women came together to lip-synch to Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" (AKA, that song they sing at the end of The First Wives Club). It's adorable,
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom's Wife Wants Jon Hamm To Wear A Dress Too many articles about Emmy winners in mainstream press feature pics of women in dresses on red carpet, but not men. #MissRep— Jen Siebel Newsom (@JenSiebelNewsom) September 27, 2012 Our sentiments exactly! But
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: SFPD Officer Suspended For These NSFW Erotic Fantasy Pics Photography stands as a popular extracurricular hobby for many members of the SFPD. Earlier this year the Harvey Milk Photography Center had a successful exhibition, "Beyond the Badge," showcasing the work of our
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Columnist to S.F. Men (Straight Or Otherwise): 'You Have No Style' This is disconcerting: Chronicle columnist Caille Millner has sensed something new about San Francisco over the last year. Something fresh. Something actualized. The lovely ladies who call Baghdad by the Bay home are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Badass Barista Goes After Brazen Thief Cafe Bello in Glen Park fell victim to a bold thief who swiped money from the tip jar. Barista Madison Kaviyakoen, however, wasn't having any of it. Check out this video she uploaded
SF News New Study Blames Spread of HIV/AIDS On Women, Sort Of Although the early stages of the AIDS epidemic saw more men infected with HIV than women, a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that certain factors unique to women could be contributing
Arts & Entertainment Hot Topic: The ERA Still Hasn't Passed? Last week, SFist launched this series under the title "Week In Women," but we've decided to keep the theme open to accommodate other issues that don't directly involve gender on occasion. In this
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Receives One-Day Jail Stay, Probation San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi received a one-day jail sentence and three years of probation Monday for falsely imprisoning his wife, Eliana Lopez, during a fight that allegedly resulted in his bruising her.
