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 [...]

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 [...]

Souter’s Replacement: What’s in the balance?

National Women’s Law Center
More great information from the NWLC.  See the link above for more information. Below find the kind of quality information gathering they are doing for women. Thank you, NWLC!

The Supreme Court: Every Vote Counts (May 2009)
Fact Sheet: Justice Souter’s Important Role in Protecting Women’s Legal Rights (May 2009)
Fact Sheet: Women in the [...]

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, [...]

April 28 : Equal Pay Day 2009

Equal Pay Day – Tuesday, April 28, 2009. What does that mean?
Do the math.
It takes a woman:
January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
+ January 1, 2009 through April 28, 2009
to earn what a man would earn in the calendar year 2008

Are you outraged?

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Feminist Daily News 2/13/2009: Florida Atlantic University Faces Attack on Women’s Studies Program

“At a university where the average salary of a male professor is $16, 000.00 higher than the average salary of a female professor, how else are we to interpret the proposed suspension of the Women’s Studies Center and M.A. program than as an attack on women?”
Read more at:
Feminist Daily News 2/13/2009: Florida Atlantic University Faces [...]

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 [...]