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FILTER RESULTS ►Mind the gap: Latinas and unequal pay
On June 10, 1963, the U.S. government passed an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act making it illegal to pay women less than men for the same work. That was 50 years ago, and women are still paid less than men at all education levels, in almost every field. On average, women make 77 [...]
Ohio Introduces "Politicians Playing Doctor" Act
What could be more extreme than politicians in Ohio trying to take tax dollars from low-income families and give them to anti-choice "crisis pregnancy centers" that lie to women? The outrageous - and in some cases just plain bizarreShow More Summary
Cuomo doubles down against racinos
Gov. Andrew Cuomo cast doubt on the chances of two of his three end-of-session legislative priorities Tuesday, all but declaring the death of both the Women's Equality Act and anti-corruption packages he had introduced, while confirming his plan to open new video lottery terminals across the state. Show More Summary
Sunny Bjerk: Gov. Cuomo: Trans Women Must Be Included in the Women's Equality Act
Cuomo's fight for women's equality cannot afford to overlook transgender women, who are especially vulnerable to violence, harassment, and discrimination in housing, employment, and health care. I hope that the Women's Equality Coalition will recognize the vulnerability of all women.
Young women get a boost from scholarship program
Last night Joy Burch announced that Mary Lee and Arika Errington have each received $5000 as a part of a new scholarship program run by YWCA Canberra and the ACT Goverment She Leads is a Diploma of Management especially designed to help young women develop the skills needed to break through barriers they may face in [...]
Wife severs husband's penis to preserve marriage
Chinese women are not particularly known for momentous acts of romance, stereotyped as preferring a lifestyle of duty and compassion. One Chinese woman decided to take the road less travelled by giving her husband a particularly harsh dose of tough love, Xinhua reports. [ more › ]
A Man Called The Police To Complain About A Prostitute’s Looks
He wanted to complain under the Sale of Goods Act. More » A Man Called The Police To Complain About A Prostitute’s Looks is a post from TheGloss - Get the best women's beauty, make up, hairstyles tips. Get sex, dating advice, culture news and hot trends for women..
'Women's Rights' Effort in New York Stalls Over Gosnell-Like Late-Term Abortion Fears
New York lawmakers tussle over Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10-point "Women's Equality Act" that includes a provision to expand late-term abortions and would allow "any health care provider" to perform abortions, thus increasing theShow More Summary
First 'Diana' Trailer Offers First Peek at Naomi Watts as Princess Di (VIDEO)
Post by Linda Sharps I can't imagine that there are many acting roles more intimidating than the job of portraying one of the most recognizable women the world has ever known, particularly when said woman would have only been 52 this year had she lived. Show More Summary
On 50th Anniversary of Equal Pay Act: Obama White House Still Shortchanges Women
This isn’t anything new. The Obama administration pays its female staff thousands of dollars less than their male ones. So, why hasn’t the press called him out on it? Save for a few publications, like the Daily M...
Cuomo’s Anti-Women Abortion-Expansion Bill
In a mere five sentences near the end of his 59-page “Women’s Equality Act,” Governor Andrew Cuomo attempts to take the women of New York back more than four decades. His abortion provision welcomes doctors and non-doctors alike to exploit and injure women, without consequences. Show More Summary
Beware the Word 'Tweak'
Word is that Andrew Cuomo is amenable to a "tweaking" of the Women's Equality Act that would alleviate concerns about partial-birth abortion. Brilliant attempt, as usual, to pretend to have fixed something that he hasn't even begun to...Show More Summary
Another Governor in Your Vagina
Remember a few months back when Virginia introduced the “Right to Know and See Act”? Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed a mandate that women seeking abortions should be forced to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. The bill passed and despite attempts to repeal the law, it still stands. Well, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wants to pick up [Read more...]
What Would Happen If Rep. Trent Franks’s Abortion Ban Passed?
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee approved Arizona representative Trent “Little Women” Franks's Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act today, a bill inspired by the Kermit Gosnell case that would ban abortions after twenty weeks, when some studies suggest a fetus can feel pain. The committee hearing yielded June’s first GOP rape gaffe, when Franks
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Celebrating Equal Pay (And Bacon!) at the White House
Fifty years ago this week, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in the East Room while surrounded by leaders of the women's rights movement. And on Monday, President Obama celebrated its 50 th anniversary with a ceremony in the...Show More Summary
Taina Bien-Aime: The Women's Equality Act: A No Brainer for New York
The legislation is testament that we cannot parse out women's rights, drop by drop. It is recognition that if New York doesn't legislate against discrimination, it in effect condones inequality.
Wherein The NYT Acts Like Anthony Weiner’s Cup
“For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers” sounds like an episode of a soap opera. In a way, it was; it was the name of a New York Times article that was published but then removed, because it was prematurely released. The NewShow More Summary
This Is Feminists’ Idea of a Celebration?
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act was passed, feminists are marking the occasion not with a celebration of women’s progress, but with yet another misleading PR effort to convince women that they are all victims of an overwhelmingly...Show More Summary
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Make it Easier for Women to Sue Employers Over Pay Discrimination
It's been 50 years since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, a law that called for equal pay for equal work. Today, women today still earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. On Monday, in an op-ed in Massachusetts' Springfield Republican, Sen. Show More Summary
Happy 50th Birthday, Equal Pay Act!
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. On June 10, 1963, Congress enacted the first law to require employers to pay women the same salaries that they pay men. When the law was enacted, I was not quite one month old. My mother fought for passage of the EPA. Show More Summary
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