Tag: Focus on Women

For the last decade many of us have decried our inability to achieve true gender pay equity.  Nationwide, women continue to earn 78% of what men do for comparable jobs.  And in the last year, studies have shown dramatic gender-based Read More

On August 11 Amnesty International’s (AI) governing body adopted a resolution supporting the legalization of “consensual” sex work.  You can read the press release regarding this decision here.  Frankly, I’ve been a bit angry about it.  I haven’t been a Read More

It was so exciting to see the U.S. Women’s National Team win the Women’s World Cup yesterday.  I watched many Women’s World Cup (WWC) matches over the last few weeks (i.e., not just those involving the US) and noticed some Read More

Robin Abcarian in the Los Angeles Times highlights another pay equity lawsuit–this one filed by women lawyers who had been working for Farmers Insurance.  The lawsuit claims not only were they paid less than men (some of whom had less Read More

Today marks the 130th anniversary of the delivery of the Statue of Liberty to the United States. Elizabeth Mitchell wrote about the Statue of Liberty and its creator, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in her book, Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Read More

If you’re like me, you have chuckled at Charlotte Whitton’s quote: “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”  But even though we may laugh at it, Read More

There’s a green hoodie sweatshirt hanging in my closet that says “Save Darfur.”  I bought it a decade ago to draw attention to the genocide there.  This was before South Sudan became an independent state–even before the United States named Read More