David Leonhardt of The New York Times discusses the workplaces unfriendly practices concerning women, especially mothers, saying, “The last three men nominated to the Supreme Court have all been married and, among them, have seven children. The last three women — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Harriet Miers (who withdrew) — have all been single Read more …
Charlie Eisenhood of Truthout.org criticizes and reports on Phyllis Schlafly’s outrageous statements about women in poverty: “Last week at a fundraiser for Michigan GOP congressional candidate Rocky Raczowski, conservative pundit Phyllis Schlafly added h…
NOW is glad to be a part of this large and diverse coalition to strengthen our country’s most important and successful social insurance program — Social Security. Speaking on behalf of NOW’s 500,000 members and contributing supporters, my message is simple: Social Security is especially vital to women, who would be disproportionately harmed by cuts in benefits.
Reporting for The New York Times, Rachel Donadio writes: “The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on Thursday making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave an offense as pedophilia.”
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “Don’t worry, gentlemen. ‘The End of Men,’ Hanna Rosin’s much discussed Atlantic cover story, isn’t really about the end of men. It’s about men’s declining economic ability to dominate women and various sociocultural…