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 [...]

American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist

American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist.

An Attack on Reproductive Health Care: The New Domestic Gag Rule

On Saturday night, the House passed the largest health care overhaul bill in 40 years.  Many of AAUW’s key priorities were included in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), including coverage for maternity care, [...]

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

August 26 is Equality Day, thanks to  Rep. Bella Abzug and first celebrated in 1971.

From the National Archives, follow the documents that brought women the right to vote in 1920.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
The Documents
A Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution
December 7, 1868
Petition to Congress
December 1871
Memorial to Congress from [...]

Afghanistan Women’s Struggle: Sitara Achakzai & Mary Wollstonecraft

Let women be Enlightened
Helen Irving
April 24, 2009
The assassination of a leading Afghan women’s rights activist, Sitara Achakzai, this month was yet another tragic reminder that equality between the sexes is far from accepted in the world today. Achakzai, who spent the years of Taliban rule in exile in Europe, returned to her country five years [...]

The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius – Los Angeles Times

The holy war over Kathleen Sebelius – Los Angeles Times
Catholic leaders’ threats to deny Communion to the Health and Human Services nominee have serious ramifications.
By TIM RUTTEN
April 25, 2009
When Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius this week vetoed another in the seemingly unending series of restrictive abortion bills her state’s Legislature churns out, it guaranteed that her [...]

Womenstake: House Passes Key Pay Equity Bills

Womenstake: House Passes Key Pay Equity Bills
January 09, 2009
House Passes Key Pay Equity Bills
The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) today applauded the House of Representatives for demonstrating its commitment to equal pay for equal work by successfully passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act. A statement by Marcia D. Greenberger, [...]

Insular Individualism: Employment Discrimination Law After Ledbetter v. Goodyear

Summer 2008 article from Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL)
Written by Tristin K. Green, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School, this article addresses the changing nature of decisions on cases of discrimination. Green states:
The insular individualism that underlies Ledbetter is part of a conceptual shift that has occurred over the past several [...]

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org

Religious Leaders in Colorado Respond to the Egg-As-Person Amendment | Reproductive Health | RHRealityCheck.org
The question of when life begins is an incredibly complex one with enormous legal and ethical ramifications for contraception, abortion, in vitro fertilization, embryonic stem cell research and the very definition of our humanity.
Colorado voters will decide this thorny question in November.
On [...]