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Gender Equity in Sports – 3 Big Payouts
Fresno State University (in California) thought it could get away with discriminating against three female coaches based on their genders and sexual orientations. It happens all the time without...
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Bush Threatens to Veto Equal Pay for Women
In a policy statement today, the White House said that if the Equal Pay Act is submitted to the President, his senior advisers are recommending that he veto it. In the statement, the administration...
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The Wrong Kind of Equality
Ellen Goodman has an interesting piece in the Boston Globe about a new kind of equality — in unemployment. This is not the kind of equality we were hoping for, however, as Goodman points out, it...
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McCain Opposes Equal Pay for Women
New Obama ad features Lilly Ledbetter. If you don’t know about this remarkable woman, please read: Of all the appalling decisions the Roberts Court issued last year, one of the worst was the 5-4...
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The Candidates’ Priorities
In last night’s debate I found it interesting how John McCain attempted to attack Barack Obama’s tax plan with his Joe the Plumber (at least it’s not Joe Sixpack, but we’re still not talking about...
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Out of the Way of Fair Pay
MomsRising has a campaign going on in support of Fair Pay. They are gathering signatures to get the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act moving forward again. Sign the petition here. Also, check out new...
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On The Way to Fair Pay
Hooray! Today the House passed the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Now it’s on to the Senate, where it stalled last time. They vote next week. Please urge your senators to...
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Yay for Fair Pay!
Today President Obama signed his first piece of major legislation… The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act! He reminds us that we’re all created equal, and each of us deserves a chance to pursue our own...
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Support Equal Pay!
It turns my stomach to think that I have had to work nearly four months this year to equal my husband’s wages from last year. We have the same education and qualifications, but our work is not valued...
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What War on Women?
Thousands of people in 46 states rallied this past Saturday against the ‘War on Women.’ Though the marches received relatively little coverage from the so-called ‘liberal media’ (ha!), the issue of the...
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