Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org

Inequality’s Death Toll: A New Calculation | OurFuture.org
Sam Pizzigati has a great post today. He starts by asking, “What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms?”
The answer to that question seems [...]

Women’s empowerment needs a people-centred economy

Recently linked in Siyanda, new thoughts from a group of researchers on how women can truly become empowered in our world — “a system where the well-being of people is the goal and commodity production the means – rather than vice versa.”
Here’s the short summary:
In 2006 the World Bank coined the slogan ‘Gender equality is [...]

India: The Sex Workers

This video and report are from 2004. Coming soon will be an update to this topic. –Kathy
FRONTLINE/World . Video | PBS
In the heart of Mumbai, India [also known as Bombay] lies Kamathipura, one of the country’s poorest districts and also its largest red light district, home to more than 60,000 sex workers. In the spring [...]

Enough! The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity

Cell phone statistics reported by Jason Griffey, July 12, 2009, and posted on The Shifted Librarian

numbers (because this arena is very important for us)
4,100,000,000 number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world
over 60% of the people on earth have a mobile phone subscription service
in 50 different countries around the world, the number of cellphones per [...]

Contexts Crawler » the motherhood penalty

Yesterday The Examiner ran a story on an article published in the  American Journal of Sociology – and winner of the 2008 Kanter Award Winner for Excellence in Work-Family Research - about the ‘motherhood penalty’:  the pattern demonstrating that working mothers make less than women without children. The study, authored by Shelley J. Correll of Stanford University, Stephen J. Benard, [...]

Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty

June 8, 2009 from Vital Voices:
Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty
Think of all the cities in the world where the “green” movement is taking hold. Cairo, Egypt, a desert megalopolis of 17 million people, probably isn’t at the top of your list. But [...]

Race and Recession Report from the Applied Research Center

A new report on the impact of economic recessions on people of color has just been released by the Applied Research Center. Find the Executive Summary and full report at http://www.arc.org/content/view/726/36/
They have gathered and compared data from the past 6 periods of recession (since 1972) and compared levels of wealth from 1992 to current depending [...]

Fair Pay: Falling Short in Every State

Fair Pay
Today, April 28, 2009, is Equal Pay Day. Below find startling data collected by the National Women’s Law Center.

Falling Short in Every State:
The Wage Gap and Harsh Economic Realities for Women Persist

In the United States, women are paid only
78¢
on average for every dollar paid to men.

More than 45 years ago, President Kennedy signed the Equal [...]

Fair Pay:

Fair Pay
Speak to your legislators! Use the link above to send your email in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act. The Equal Pay Act, already passed by Congress has weaknesses that this follow up act will cover. According the the Nationals Women’s Law Center, these problems are addressed in the new act:
The Paycheck Fairness Act, [...]

National Women’s Law Center: Fair Pay Facts & Figures

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 : Equal Pay Day
Facts & Figures
Although the majority of Americans say that they are concerned about the economy, women are more likely than men to be worried and concerned about their economic prospects. Their concerns are certainly valid; women are far more likely to live in poverty than men, and the [...]