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Women in Politics: Groups Aim to Increase the Numbers in 2012
The war we must fight
We want to believe the war is over.
Times have changed since the era of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, who could not have imagined a nation in which women would have the right to vote, would serve in elected office, or would sit on the highest court in the land. Generations before us could...
Minnesota Republicans want to get rid of equal pay
Ugh:
Minnesota Republicans have introduced legislation that would repeal the 1984 Local Government Pay Equity Act (LGPEA), which directs local governments to ensure that women are paid the same as men. While local governments say reporting requirements are costly, equal rights groups say the law needs to stay intact in order to...
H.R. 3 on abortion = More than Hyde Amendment on steroids
On the eve of the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the anti-choice crowd in the House of Representatives has introduced H.R. 3, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, a monstrosity that would set back women's reproductive rights further than any single act since the Supreme Court made its famous ruling. Already...
Kay Mills: Remembering a Trailblazing Journalist
Justice Scalia’s accidental argument for equal rights
Justice Scalia is known for many things. Advocating for an amendment to the Constitution to protect women from discrimination? Generally not chief among them.
But in an interview for the magazine California Lawyer, that's exactly what he did.
In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th...
The coming war on women
A war is coming.
Congressional Republicans have already made clear that their top priority, once they take control of Congress in the next session, is to make sure President Obama is a one-term president.
But there is a second priority that many Republicans in Congress, and in state legislatures around the country, have...
U.S. still opposes equal rights for women
Here's a riddle: How is the United States exactly like Iran?
Answer: They both oppose equal rights for women.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called for testimony on a more than 30-year-old United Nation’s treaty — one that was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 but has never been brought...
A Magical Life Cut Short, but Lived on Her Own Fierce Terms
112th Congress: Fewer women, fewer Blue Dogs
Come January, fewer women will be seated in the House and Senate, the first decrease in their numbers in Congress since 1978. Most, possibly all, of those losses will be Democrats. At the same time, Blue Dog Democrats may see their coalition in the House cut by a third, or deeper, with possibly more than...
