Women's Issues:
Discrimination against women: the ERA site
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Jobs which discriminate against the employment of women and “glass ceilings” of promotion opportunities where they are employed, as well as “unequal pay for equal work,” sexual harassment on the job. Discrimination against women in their opportunities to participate in sports, politics, etc.; difficulty of female crime victims in securing criminal justice; stereotypical depictions of females in popular culture.
9/19/09
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Analysis & views: 4/9/08 Human rights groups in India beginning to take up issue of frequent "acid attacks" on women by men who are punishing them for failure to be responsive to them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7270568.stm 3/8/08 Islamist militias are inflicting new levels of persecution on Iraqi women attempting to pursue professional careers. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41479 5/15/07 New report documents gender inequality suffered by girls in many countries throughout the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6655497.stm 12/11/06 Male chauvinist Muslims: Thousands of Islamists in Indonesia protest against a new law which abolishes the need for four male witnesses to support a woman's charges of rape. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061210/india_nm/india279771 3/9/06 UN report: women's political participation across the globe is "appallingly low." hindering world efforts in poverty reduction and improved health: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0308-06.htm
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Analysis & views: 9/19/09 3/18/08 The suffering wives of disgraced politicians:. Katha Pollitt looks at the Spitzer sex scandal from the perspective of an unending stream of unseated political leaders who "apologize" to their families and the public with their "supportive" wives standing forlornly at their sides. What she longs for is a man who will be a man and actually refuse to allow his wife to be dragged before the public to help salvage the career of "her man" that she's standing behind, with often the humiliation of being implicitly blamed for her husband's delinquency because she "didn't give him what he needed." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/pollitt 10/4/06 Christian Science Monitor writers, in aftermath of school assault on Amish children in Pennsylvania, note a "pattern" in recent school violence: the targeting of girls. A sociologist says this may be reflective of a "culture of violence" against women in the country. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1004/p01s01-usgn.html 3/19/06 Women are still a rarity among partners at top law firms: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/business/yourmoney/19law.html?th&emc=th 3/16/06 Barbara Ehrenreich finds herself, along with other feminists, castigated as "home wreckers": http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0316-27.htm
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Analysis & views: 8/26/09
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Analysis and views: 6/10/09 "WE ARE THE GIRLS OF OLD FLORIDA." Suggested name change for University of Florida's "pep song" (We are the boys...) as female students now out-number males by 60-40%, an all-time high. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090610/ARTICLES/906101005/1002?Title=We-are-the-girls-
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